Todd Haynes

safe is the one

any but that

[Safe] > Superstar > Dottie gets spanked > I'm not there > Far from heaven > poison > The velvet goldmine.

I haven't seen Mildred Pierce.

Superstar
Velvet Goldmine
I'm Not There
Far From Heaven
Safe

Is how i'd rank em. Didnt finish mildred pierce.

Cant remember if i've seen poison tbh

Dottie should be after I'm not there and Far from heaven tbh. I was being a little too hardcore there although Dottie is excellent.

As a snob who couldn't care less for Bob Dylan, and who pretty much discards a filmmaker when oscar likes him, is it worth diving into his films?

― Frederik B, Sunday, 17 May 2015 14:29 (3 hours ago) Permalink

You should know better than diving into this 'snob' business.

Carol is such a Haynes project..been years since I read it.

Todd Haynes is already planning his next foray into sumptuously photographed dissatisfied women. According to IndieWire, the director is planning a TV limited series based on The Source Family, the real-life hippie cult profiled in the 2013 documentary of the same name.

http://www.avclub.com/article/todd-haynes-planning-tv-series-about-70s-rock-cult-219585

“Amazon Studios is nearing a deal to finance, produce and distribute writer-director Todd Haynes‘s Wonderstruck, which will reunite the director with Julianne Moore,” reports TheWrap‘s Jeff Sneider. “Based on the children’s novel by The Invention of Hugo Cabret author Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck follows the intertwined narratives of two deaf children, Ben and Rose. Ben lives with his family in Minnesota in 1977, when a mysterious note prompts him to run off to New York following his mother’s death. Rose, who is locked in a house in 1927 New Jersey, also escapes to New York to see her idol, film actress Lillian Mayhew.”

http://www.thewrap.com/julianne-moore-todd-haynes-wonderstruck-amazon-studios/

initial mixed Cannes takes

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4553-the-daily-cannes-2017-todd-haynes-s-wonderstruck

Sounds interesting. I never got around to Carol

Todd Haynes! You technically polished bastard who leaves viewers emotionally cold! How the hell are you? pic.twitter.com/WYRK9GKJj3

— Jaime N. Christley (@j_christley) May 18, 2017

emotions, feh

if i want a sublime transcendent experience that moves me to my core, obv there's always De Palma

Cool.

"cold"

lol

I thought Carol was a snooze fest but this new one sounds right up my alley.

Yeah I found it so boring.

!! http://www.pitchfork.com/news/todd-haynes-to-direct-new-velvet-underground-doc/

have loved all of his music-related features unreservedly, so v curious about this

yeah super excited about this!

has anyone here seen Wonderstruck yet? or has it only played at Cannes?

2 other fests to date

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5208216/releaseinfo

The spectrum of the Wonderstruck reviews is pretty fascinating, from "his worst" to "the film he was born to make."

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/5021-the-daily-nyff-2017-todd-haynes-s-wonderstruck

don't see how he can top Carol

Really? It felt dry and desiccated to me on my only look.

I couldn't stand it; I choked on whimsy.

I preferred it to Far from Heaven, at any rate.

wait, which?

I preferred Far from Heaven to all but maybe two Sirk films.

Just got Far From Heaven on blu-ray, psyched to see it for the first time- just watched All That Heaven Allows and Ali: Fear Eats the Soul recently

We've been over your wrongness on this count multiple times, Morbs.

(Preferred Carol to Far From Heaven, to be clear. Haven't seen Todd Haynes' mother!)

sorry i definitely saw carol and enjoyed it and can't recall it having a particularly whimsical streak

it wasn't whimsical at all, it was so tonally precise

yeah, zero whimsy.

what can I say, i like actors who are better than Hudson and Wyman.

what can I say

More than I ever wanted you to.

oh, youuuuuu

anyway at least you can skip the VU documentary

Fair enough. You, actors. Me, soundtracks.

I assume Alfred's whimsy comment was aimed at the new one, not Carol.

I like or love most of Haynes' movies, but the source material for this one makes me skeptical. I didn't like Hugo, so reviews saying either "It's as good as Hugo" or "It's not as good as Hugo" don't do anything for me.

Dargis in the NYT thought it was pitched primarily at adults.

idk what to think after the trailer tbh

I tend to love Haynes when he's focused on music, less so on other topics but I did like Far From Heaven and Safe

def doesn't look like something that would interest children imo

I referred to the new one. The kids are better than the horrors in The FLorida Project though.

Give it a rest already.

I referred to the new one. The kids are better than the horrors in The FLorida Project though.

― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, October 20, 2017 12:58 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah sorry for misrepresenting you alfred

Carol could have done with some whimsey.

Give it a rest already.

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, October 20, 201

Someone likes Florida!

Except some people.

Carol was boring af

I didn't think Carol (or Far From Heaven) was boring as much as straitjacketed by good taste and period detail. As for Wonderstruck, I will say that its period settings didn't strike me as nearly so restrictive. And I found the musical settings to be an exercise in obviousness, which I assume means it will get its only Oscar nomination in one of the sound categories.

Yeah, Wonderstruck is pretty boring. Moreso than Carol, even.