If you like sarcastic, campy humor, Todd Haynes’ latest “May December” might be the indie entertainment you have been waiting for. Haynes has never been a “general audience” kind of director. His films are specific, layered, and better enjoyed if you know exactly what he is trying to pull off. For instance, when he collaborated […]
The director of “Carol“ and “Far From Heaven” isn’t the guy you expect to helm an environmental crisis story that has the structure of “Erin Brockovich.” Yet, in the unsuspecting hands of Haynes, “Dark Waters” becomes the most terrifying true story of the year. No horror movie plot twist will disturb like the facts presented
His follow-up to Carol is an ADD suffering viewers nightmare. Wonderstruck again promotes the inventive ways filmmaker Todd Haynes chooses to tell a story. Wonderstruck will likely divide audiences who can’t make it past the sharp contrast of two stories being told simultaneously; one is silent, in black and white, while the other in color
Carol is two-time Oscar winner Cate Blanchett’s second time working with visionary Todd Haynes (I’m Not There, Far From Heaven) and her second time in a film adaptation of author Patricia Highsmith (The Talented Mr. Ripley). Returning once again to the 1950s, Haynes has a particular flare for embedding the audience in the period. Carol
By returning to the social mores of the 1950s in his new film Carol, director Todd Haynes revisits the setting for his classic tribute to the stylistic views of Douglas Sirk in Far From Heaven. But the new film is quite different in the content it explores and the world it creates. “Manhattan in 1952,
Each year the New York Film Festival showcases the magic that movies can make. This year’s 53rd edition offers a rich preview of films to anticipate later this fall as well as some important lessons for any moviemaker to consider. Take a look.
Fall Movie Season is here! Finally after all those endlessly lackluster summer movies, so loud and filled with mind-wasting special effects, it’s once again, time for the good stuff.