Posts Tagged ‘Todd Haynes’
Top 15 Films of 2023 – Allen’s Picks
2023 was marked by two historic labor strikes from the writers (WGA) and actors guilds (SAG-AFTRA). The strikes put a halt on American film and television work for months, as the two unions battled with studios over wages, streaming compensation, health benefits, likeness rights, artificial…
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Film Review – May December
Director Todd Haynes toes a fine line with May December (2023). There are instances where the material delves into dark and troubling areas, involving childhood trauma, grief, guilt, and unspoken animosity. Other times, the narrative becomes so over the top that what we’re seeing cannot be anything other than…
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Film Review – Submergence
Melodrama, when done well, draws our empathies so effectively that seeing the lives of characters play out is as suspenseful as an action film. Of all the genres in cinema, melodrama – often dealing with the ups and downs of romance – is so closely…
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Film Review – Wonderstruck
A large part of our development as humans is having a sense of belonging. Where one fits inside a family, at school, at work, with friends and in the pantheon of the world at large, is part of the identification of one’s self. Belonging though,…
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Top 15 Films of 2015 – Allen’s Picks
I know what people say: “Lists of anything are dumb. How can you take something as subjective as movies and rank them in order?” Well, that’s kind of the beauty of it: no one list is definitive. If anything, putting out one’s favorite films only reveals…
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Film Review – Carol
When two women meet and fall in love in New York in the late 1940s, societal deviance becomes a search for safety in director Todd Hayne‘s (Safe, Mildred Pierce) latest movie Carol. Based on the novel The Price of Salt and starring Cate Blanchett and…
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Film Review – Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
Chances are, when you finally get to see that cult movie you’ve heard about for years, it’s going to suck. There are three main reasons for this.
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