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In the News (Sun 20 Dec 09)

  
  Todd Haynes (film retrospective)
Haynes: "My sister Wendy didn't really have Barbies as a child, but we would spend a lot of time playing with her collection of plastic horses.
Haynes: "What was most fascinating to me about 'A Child Is Being Beaten' is the masochistic subtext Freud reveals behind his patient's fantasies/memories of witnessing beating scenes: a subtext that reveals the person as the child being beaten, as opposed to being an observer and watching it gleefully from the sidelines.
Haynes bombards Steven (and the viewer) with cross-dressing body doubles (Dottie, in and out of costume, as well as her buxom stand-in), murky secondary revisions (color, fl-and-white, video, and crayon variations on images of Dottie over her paddler's knee), and "frank" multiple entendres.
www.industrycentral.net /director_interviews/TH02.HTM   (2744 words)

  
  Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes is the golden child of independent cinema.
Todd Haynes and fellow gay miners Christine Vachon and Michael Stipe dig into the glitter-rock riches of the Velvet Goldmine.
Todd Haynes, wearing blue jeans and a blue-jean jacket, walks down the long staircase to the lobby of the Houstonian Hotel.
www.queertheory.com /histories/h/haynes_todd.htm   (1091 words)

  
 Todd Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The content of his work has made Haynes the subject of both acclaim and controversy, a whipping boy for debates about NEA funding and a figurehead in the new queer cinema.
Haynes did not make another major feature film until 1995 (his 1993 Dottie Gets Spanked was a short film shown on PBS), when he resurfaced with Safe.
However, like much of Haynes' work, the film was an inarguably unique piece of work, as interesting in its failure as many mainstream Hollywood films are bland in their success.
www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P+93836   (783 words)

  
 Golden Boy Todd Haynes Glitters with "Velvet Goldmine"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haynes: Lizzie Frankie, the director of the Edinburgh Film Festival, covered herself in glitter for opening night and got some in her eye.
Haynes: Toni Collete is fantastic, such a brilliant actress and so beautiful, which was a side that you never saw before.
Haynes: To some degree it was a media construction, as a lot of titles are.
www.ipopmag.com /interviews/int_Haynes_Todd_981106.html   (1341 words)

  
 Todd Haynes
Haynes is not criticizing the dolls themselves so much as presenting the ideal beauty that they support and showing how naïve adherence to such a mindset can drive certain among us on a hellish downward slope.
Haynes pans over a family picture display at one point, and it is frightening to see the change in Carol’s expression from early childhood to early adulthood.
In Haynes’ work, this is oftentimes a cataclysmic meeting of the minds — from the intentionally mangled Barbie dolls in Superstar, to the child’s murder of his father in Poison, to Carol’s physical and emotional journey in Safe.
www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/02/haynes.html   (2844 words)

  
 ArtandCulture Artist: Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes' biography reads as if he were an unlikely mix between Cheech Marin, John F. Kennedy Jr., and Quentin Crisp.
Haynes was born in Los Angeles and educated at Brown University, where he was awarded an honors degree in Art and Semiotics in 1985.
Tensions were further aggravated by Haynes' unabashed status as a leader of the movement known as New Queer Cinema.
www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=672   (522 words)

  
 INTERVIEW: Imitation of Film; Todd Haynes Mimics Melodrama in "Far from Heaven"
Haynes: I think one of the reasons why it comes across as having emotional integrity is that we were enjoying it while making it.
Haynes: I am not sure if it is anymore obvious than most of the lines in the movie, which are always on the verge.
Haynes: In the Sirk films, you realize how extreme the color palettes were, and how complex they were, in terms of warm and cool spectrums.
www.indiewire.com /people/int_Haynes_Todd_021101.html   (1649 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited Film | Interviews | Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore at the NFT
Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore at the NFT
The director and star of Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes and Julianne Moore, spoke at the NFT on February 21, of technique, colour and handling.
And so for me, what Todd was talking about, me being able to envision what he wanted, the great thing about working with Todd in both films is that his vision is so strong, so sure and so apparent to me that I become very relaxed on his sets.
film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,903493,00.html   (3213 words)

  
 Todd Haynes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Maverick, onetime New Queer Cinema director Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961, Encino, California, USA) has had a controversial career.
His 1987 film, Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (which tells the life of American singer Karen Carpenter using Barbie dolls as actors) caused Richard Carpenter to sue him and was removed from distribution.
The Trouble with Carol: The Costs of Feeling Good in Todd Haynes's Safe and the American Cultural Landscape, essay by Julie Grossman, Other Voices, January 2005.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Todd_Haynes   (227 words)

  
 Todd Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Todd Haynes's first film, Superstar, told the story of Karen Carpenter's demise from anorexia with compassion, sensitivity, and a cast consisting entirely of surprisingly emotive Barbie dolls.
With his newest film, Haynes is back to his pop-star biopic roots.
Set amid the glitter and androgyny of London's glam-rock era, the film is a sensuous tribute to a movement that Haynes calls "a product of the last truly progressive decade we've seen in the West, a climate of great possibility and openness." One in Ten recently spoke with Haynes.
www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/1in10/98/11/HAYNES.html   (871 words)

  
 Weaving Velvet Threads: Todd Haynes talks about Velvet Goldmine   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Haynes describes the dandy as that "ironic, androgynous spokesperson for Englishness that has existed through different points through their history in a very popular way, but at the same time in a very subversive way.
Haynes elaborates, "I took that whole era, the raw material of that period as I think it should be taken: as a fiction already, as already a result of a very complicated process of multiple references and key associations."
Haynes' reverent spin on the artistic and cultural decadence of glam rock is much more interesting than any search for the truth.
archives.thedaily.washington.edu /1998/110598/A8.VelvetGold.html   (1051 words)

  
 Velvet Goldmine . Newcity Chicago . 11-09-98
Todd Haynes' "Safe" remains one of the decade's masterpieces - serene, mysterious, unyielding.
Haynes (photo, with Rhys-Meyers) describes his uncommonly accomplished $8 million film as "an act of thievery, which glam rock is as well."
There is a Wildean verbal wit throughout, and Haynes, who opens the film with a vignette of Wilde as a child, admits to using Wilde's style of observation throughout.
www.filmvault.com /filmvault/chicago/v/velvetgoldmine1.html   (416 words)

  
 Todd Haynes
Todd Haynes was always interested in the arts, and made amateur movies...
A Filmmaker's Experience with Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes (2003) (V)....
Find where Todd Haynes is credited alongside another name
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 index magazine interview
TODD: I remember going to the movies in the late '60s and early '70s, and even with films that were very popular at the time, like Butch Cassidy or The Graduate, you always went not knowing what was going to happen.
TODD: Throughout the film, there is a real insistence on visual motifs that come from the early '70s, stuff that we haven't seen in a long time like rampant zoom-ins and zoom-outs, racking focus and swish pans, a whole different kind of camera...
TODD: You know, when all of the Warhol clan met Bowie and Angie in 1970, she was the one they adored.
www.indexmagazine.com /interviews/todd_haynes.shtml   (3047 words)

  
 ArtForum: Past perfect - Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven - Interview   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Seen from one angle, Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven is a cunningly precise pastiche of a movie Douglas Sirk might have made in 1958--if, that is, Universal Studios had been prepared to release a movie bearing on homosexuality, interracial romance, and the civil rights movement.
Where Wyman in the Sirk picture is recently widowed, in the Haynes film Moore finds herself abruptly estranged from her business exec hu sband (Dennis Quaid) when his long-repressed homosexuality comes vividly to her attention.
The husband's sexual crisis is handled with an aura of hysteria and pseudoscience appropriate to the period--his anguish and shame call to mind Grant Williams as The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) angrily rejecting his wife when she attempts to comfort him for his mysterious loss of masculine pride.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_41/ai_94122695   (906 words)

  
 02-108 (Todd Haynes)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The work of writer/director Todd Haynes, the Academy Award-nominated screenwriter of Far From Heaven (2002) and a 1985 graduate of Brown University, will be the focus of a series of events planned for April 10-12, 2003, sponsored by the Department of Modern Culture and Media.
Born in Los Angeles in 1961, Todd Haynes grew up in nearby Encino, Calif. and developed an interest in filmmaking at a young age; he produced his first short film, The Suicide, in 1987 while still in high school.
The film won the 1991 Sundance Festival Grand Jury Prize, but also drew the ire of the right-wing American Family Association and its leader, the Rev. Donald Wildmon, because it was partially funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
www.brown.edu /Administration/News_Bureau/2002-03/02-108.html   (646 words)

  
 Salon.com Arts & Entertainment | "Movies are nothing until we bring emotional life to them"   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sirk's vibrantly hued and socially engaged movies served as the inspiration for director Todd Haynes' newest film, "Far From Heaven." Set in Hartford, Conn., in 1957, "Far From Heaven" centers on the seemingly picture-perfect Whitaker family.
Haynes achieved greater prominence with his next two films, "Safe" and "Velvet Goldmine." "Safe," perhaps the director's most horrifying work, centers on a California housewife (Julianne Moore) who develops an environmental illness and ends up shuttered away from society, quarantined in a metal igloo at a spiritual retreat.
I spoke with Haynes by telephone a month before his film was set to open.
www.salon.com /ent/movies/int/2002/11/11/haynes?x   (1176 words)

  
 Biography for Todd Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Todd Haynes was always interested in the arts, and made amateur movies and painted while he was still a child.
His next film Safe (1995) was a very different work for Haynes, it told the story of a women suffering from a breakdown caused by a mysterious virus.
The film proved that Haynes has the talent to be seriously respected by critics and film lovers everywhere.
us.imdb.com /Bio?Haynes,+Todd   (447 words)

  
 Pinewood: Profile for Todd Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In this interview, Haynes discusses the intricacies of filming a roman à clef about a group of people for whom identity was always a nebulous concept.
All of Todd Haynes’s films have explored the conflict between social conventions and authentic emotions.
While Haynes has been one of the most respected and admired independent filmmakers since the early 1990s, his 2002 movie Far from Heaven was a remarkable critical triumph.
pinewood.movingimage.us /interfaces/ammi/pinewood/person.cgi?people_id=163   (347 words)

  
 Extratv.com : Todd Haynes
Now the secret is out about 42-year-old experimental filmmaker Todd Haynes, whose stylistic look at homosexuality in the 50's nabbed four Oscar nominations.
In his 20's, Haynes made one of the most talked about, but least seen, films of the 80's, "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story." Told with only handheld Barbie dolls, the film was quickly yanked from distribution.
Haynes says, "There were some people, who we learned, they would not want to play second to a woman interestingly and it's sort of eye opening."
extratv.warnerbros.com /dailynews/extra/03_03/03_20c.html   (242 words)

  
 REVIEW: An Audacious Throwback; Todd Haynes' Triumphant "Far From Heaven"
Haynes brilliantly twists Sirk's plot (while paying homage to other Sirk films, such as "Imitation of Life," "Written on the Wind," and "Magnificent Obsession").
Haynes refuses to make plotlines pat: Even his fellow "coloreds" give Raymond a hard time for his (unrequited) dalliance with a white woman (just as Cathy's friends are ultimately oppressive).
Haynes refuses to give the men a break: Though both Frank and Raymond are victims of their times, they have options unavailable to women.
www.indiewire.com /movies/rev_02Toronto_020910_Heave.html   (693 words)

  
 Todd Haynes @ Filmbug
Todd is also one of the founding members of Gran Fury, a collective of artists in the AIDS activist community.
Using Barbie dolls as actors, a soundtrack of heartrending Carpenters songs, and a '70s wardrobe that any doll would be proud to own, this seminal film demonstrated Haynes' intense empathy and theatrical bravado.
Haynes' second feature film, SAFE, looked at the life of a California housewife (played by Julianne Moore) who finds that she is becoming allergic to the 20th century.
www.filmbug.com /db/2913   (457 words)

  
 Bob Dylan | Todd Haynes | movies : ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Todd Haynes plans to direct Bob Dylan biopic.
The man behind ''Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story'' and ''Velvet Goldmine'' is gearing up for his most ambitious music film yet.
Writer-director Todd Haynes -- currently bathing in acclaim and Oscar buzz for his ''Far From Heaven'' -- is planning a movie based on the life of Bob Dylan.
www.ew.com /ew/report/0,6115,421244~1~0~toddhaynesplansto,00.html   (306 words)

  
 Haynes - screenonline: Haynes, Arthur (1914-1966) Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Professor Haynes Miller Department of Mathematics 2-237 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA 02139
Euphemia Haynes taught in the public schools of Washington, DC for forty-seven years.
Almost a forgotten figure in British comedy, Arthur Haynes (born in London in May 1914) was ITV 's biggest star of
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 filmbibliographical reference on Todd Haynes
K.Burdette: "Queer Readings/Queer Cinema: An Examination of the Early Work of Todd Haynes." In: The Velvet Light Trap No.41 (1998), pp.68-80
Roddey Reid: "UnSafe at Any Distance: Todd Haynes´ Visual Culture of Health and Risk." In: Film Quarterly 51:3 (1998), pp.32-44
James Morrison (Ed.): The Cinema of Todd Haynes.
www.fachinformation-filmwissenschaft.de /person/h/thaynes.html   (274 words)

  
 Far From Heaven (2002): Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Todd Haynes   (Site not responding. Last check: )
"Todd Haynes goes out on a limb to make his point, sometimes in inches but more often miles."
"Haynes uses the antiquated style without winking, and begs questions of whether a modern filmmaker can actually recreate Sirk without reinventing it in the process.
"Todd Haynes thinks that he pays homage to Sirk when he's really just making the subtle more obvious.
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 Lots of Stars There for Todd Haynes - ComingSoon.net
Director Todd Haynes is attracting a cast that includes Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Adrien Brody, Richard Gere, Julianne Moore and Charlotte Gainsbourg to his I'm Not There, an unconventional film bio of Bob Dylan.
As envisioned by writer/helmer Haynes, the movie follows seven characters, each embodying a different aspect of Dylan's life story and music.
Filmmakers plan a fall start, but scheduling could be the key to keeping the stars lined up for Haynes' dream project.
comingsoon.net /news/topnews.php?id=9416   (188 words)

  
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