Todd Haynes

...in America makes the characters' optimism poignant. "Superstar" (1987) - This 43-minute biography of Karen Carpenter by Todd Haynes is acted with Barbie dolls. What could have been silly and gimmicky ends up being a haunting portrait of...

In this article: West Side Story, Superstar, Joy Division, Baltimore, Documentary, E mail, Barbie dolls, and The Baltimore Sun

...an expressionist approach to color, costume, music and mise-en-scene-at no time has Almodovar produced an equivalent film to Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven (2002). Instead, Almodovar uses Sirkian tropes-both thematic and stylistic-to...

In this article: Pedro Almodovar, All About My Mother, Douglas Sirk, The Flower of My Secret, High Heels, and Tennessee Williams

...four: best picture snubs of four animated flicks -- "Finding Nemo," "The Incredibles," "Ratatouille," "Wall-E"; best director snub of Todd Haynes ("Far From Heaven," "I'm Not There"); best actress snub of Uma Thurman ("Kill Bill," Vol. 1 &...

In this article: Oscars, Avatar, Nine, Mickey Rourke, Maury Yeston, Jeff Bridges, True Grit, and Finding Nemo

Those are perfect movies for us." Thursday's event is the final Slapdown of the year, with a screening of "I'm Not There," director Todd Haynes' experimental, somewhat fictionalized Bob Dylan biopic from 2007 that has six actors -- Cate...

In this article: Bob Dylan, Terri Hemmert, Garry Meier, Cate Blanchett, Billy's Hollywood Screen Kiss, Chicago, Hollywood, and God

...character named Carter (the one behind the film Erased James Franco, in which Franco reenacts Julianne Moore's performance in Todd Haynes's Safe and ones from his own career), who elaborates slightly on those ideas. Apparently whole thing...

In this article: James Franco, General Hospital, Carter, Casey Affleck, Joaquin Phoenix, and Julianne Moore

...by acting out, with an anguished handheld immediacy, how large each of those sacrifices really is. Moverman, the co-screenwriter of Todd Haynes' I'm Not There, was born and raised in Israel, where he served in the infantry for four years.

In this article: The Messenger, Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha Morton, Iraq War, and I'm Not There

...Hemitage Museum. The result is an extraordinary meditation on history and identity. 49 Far from Heaven Todd Haynes, 2002, GBP9.78: Todd Haynes's homage to Douglas Sirk's melodramas, starring Julianne Moore, was both succulent and...

In this article: DVD, Christopher Nolan, Pixar, Richard Linklater, Oscar, Pirates of the Caribbean, Tony Gilroy, Michael Haneke, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Last Night In Twisted River is the I'm Not There of John Irving novels. Like Todd Haynes' attempts to turn Bob Dylan into a figure of myth in that film, Irving playfully invents a story that's as much about the pleasures of reading one of...

In this article: John Irving, Kurt Vonnegut, I'm Not There, and United States

...of Peter Suskind's novel, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer. The following year, he embodied the poet aspect of Bob Dylan's life in Todd Haynes's I'm Not There. Now, inspired by the actor's "fragility", Jane Campion has cast Whishaw as...

In this article: Ben Whishaw, John Keats, Bright Star, Hamlet, Royal Court Theatre, Sebastian Flyte, Primo Levi, Brideshead Revisited, and Trevor Nunn

...in "Ray" or "Walk the Line. " An American film that does suggest that bliss can figure in remarkable lives is "I'm Not There," Todd Haynes's fractured portrait of Bob Dylan, though even here the highest highs are in the filmmaking itself.

In this article: Amelia Earhart, Mira Nair, Hilary Swank, Richard Gere, Amelia, Amelia, William Cuddy, George Palmer Putnam, Ron Bass, and Gore Vidal