Todd Haynes

I can't think of a single thread/discussion/reaction that I've ever found more interesting than the film it's discussing.

Dylan never should've left Toto, he was the best one!

anyway i think i was being really unclear upthread... due to my trying to condense a difficult thought that i hadn't even quite reasoned out into a few words (because i was at work and rushed). i'll try to explain myself again a little later, when i have time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWgiFU9Lqhc

"DOTTIE GETS SPANKED" A++, WOULD WATCH AGAIN AND AGAIN.

I dressed like the kid in that when I was 6.

from SXSW:

TH asked how to find 'Superstar': "You're asking the one person who isn't allowed to tell you, and my lawyer is two people over from you."

http://blog.oregonlive.com/madaboutmovies/2009/03/sxsw_oldnew_indie_tweetybloggy.html

I'm glad that guy reported on it, but Twitter journalism, Jesus.

it's pretty easy to find a torrent if you know where to look. it's great.

http://www.illegal-art.org/video/popups/superstar.html

is another place where this can be found.

thx

Reading the "cultograpy" of Superstar and really enjoying it. Prompted me to finally watch Poison and it is pretty damn good! I'm gonna check out everything else of his I haven't yet seen.

i totally love this movie, I've never seen Poison or VG, even though I've loved every other bit of Haynes I've seen so much.

You should read the book, it's putting the film in a new context for me.

love most of this guy's stuff, Poison excepted.

no wait I think I'm mixing that up with Safe.

Safe freaked me out.

Me too, but in a good way. Film I keep meaning to revisit.

i love superstar; poison to me falls more into the interesting-failure category, tho it's worth seeing.

http://weblogs.variety.com/bfdealmemo/2009/08/winslet-game-for-mildred-pierce-.html

Kate Winslet is attached to "Mildred Pierce," a miniseries adaptation based on the James M. Cain novel that Todd Haynes is writing and directing. Sources said that HBO is the lead contender to get the mini, but payweb sources said no deal has been struck.

Cain's tale was famously turned into a 1945 film that won Joan Crawford an Oscar for the lead role of a bored housewife who gets into the restaurant business, an enterprise that leads to back-stabbing, romance and murder.

The involvement of Winslet--right after her Oscar-winning performance in "The Reader" and her work in "Revolutionary Road"--underscores how much paywebs like HBO have become prestige venues for films that might vanish as theatrical releases, a fact underscored by the success of "Grey Gardens," which garnered Emmy noms for Drew Barrymore and Jessica Lange.

Haynes directed "I'm Not There," "Safe" and "Far From Heaven."

intrigued!

whoa

i hope there''s lots of chickn and waffles in it!

(guessing it's going to be a contemporary update tho)

oh man, LOVE the Cain novel. finished it a couple of months ago. very excited about this.

contemporary update? why wd you hire the guy who did far From Heaven for that?

haha ya i guess

whoa! just watched the OG MP earlier this wk

this could be cool

Greenlit!

HBO is revisiting the Great Depression with "Mildred Pierce."
Pay cabler is going forward with a five-hour miniseries starring Kate Winslet as a proud, single mother struggling to earn her daughter's love during the depression in middle-class Los Angeles. Story is based on the novel by James M. Cain.

Mini has been speculated for months, but the deal just become official.

Joan Crawford won an Oscar for the lead role in the 1945 film adaptation of the novel. "Mildred Pierce" earned a total of six noms, including a pair of supporting actress nods for Eve Arden and Ann Blyth.

Todd Haynes will write the script along with Jon Raymond. Haynes will also direct and act as exec producer, along with Pamela Koffler, Christine Vachon, and John Wells. Ilene Landress ("The Sopranos") is producer and pic is in association with MGM.

Wells, who has a pact at Warner Bros. and saw his "Southland" cop drama picked up by TNT after it was dropped by NBC, recently unspooled his bigscreen pic "The Company Men" at the Sundance Film Festival.

Winslet is coming off a lead actress Oscar for her role in "The Reader." It was her first win after being nominated five times previously.

Actress last appeared on HBO in the pilot of Ricky Gervais starrer "Extras," playing a nun pining for an Oscar nom. Gervais teased her about the role during the 2009 Golden Globes.

No other thesps have been attached to the cast.

whoa.

is this the first miniseries that will be all directed by the same dude?

was just reading abt this, will b awesome

winslet? really?

yeah she kept her maiden name

No guesses as to what I hope they'll have as the theme song.

as much as i could see kate pulling this off, it would take a miracle to pull of a joan crawford in this role.

i'm sure haynes knows that, and this will probably be at right angles to the film.

haynes is nothing if not savvy about stuff like this, whatever you think of the results (i think he has a good track record).

pic is in association with MGM.

how much TV has MGM been producing lately? it's on the auction block right now, and is not in very good shape, at least in terms of theatrical.

xp i hope you're right! i do think he's a very sensible fit for the job.