Movies: Todd Haynes

  • 2021
    Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020

    Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020 (2021)

    Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020

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    A wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms....

    Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
  • 1988
    Cause and Effect

    Cause and Effect (1988)

    Cause and Effect

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    Ordinary people of both sexes, and of varying ages, races and ethnicities, tell stories that sound familiar. But each is a construct to plumb reality in a considered, theoretical, and, ultimately, playful fashion, as Delson continues the filmic exper...

    Cause and Effect
  • 2006
    Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir

    Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir (2006)

    Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir

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    Filmmaker Todd Haynes talks about Max Ophuls' 1952 film Le Plaisir....

    Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
  • 1989
    La Divina

    La Divina (1989)

    La Divina

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    Brooke Dammkoehler’s meditation on the rise to stardom of a glamorous movie idol (modelled after Greta Garbo), draped in gorgeous black & white photography and a tone of delirious grandeur....

    La Divina
  • 1986
    Days Are Numbered

    Days Are Numbered (1986)

    Days Are Numbered

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    Christine Vachon’s story of a man haunted by the grotesque memory of having stepped on a dead animal's carcass is an artistic tour de force starring Michael Sean Edwards (the voice of Richard Carpenter in Todd Haynes’ Superstar) and a young Steve Bu...

    Days Are Numbered
  • 1989
    Natural History

    Natural History (1989)

    Natural History

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    The parents of an adult infant named "Child", played by Todd Haynes, attempt to expel him from their home, by casting magical spell seen in a television documentary about Malaysian rites of passage....

    Natural History
  • 2022
    Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

    Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair (2022)

    Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair

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    An investigative portrait of the master of cinematic melodrama, Douglas Sirk. His life was the ultimate melodrama, from which all his films were inspired. Through the testimonies of those closest to him and the unpublished accounts in his wife's diar...

    Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair