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Todd Haynes has emerged from the trenches of independent American film in the 1990s to become one of the twenty-first century's most audacious filmmakers. In a series of smart, informative essays, this book traces his career from its roots in New Queer Cinema to the Oscar-nominatedFar from Heaven (2002). Along the way, it covers such landmark films asPoison (1991),Safe (1995), andVelvet Goldmine (1998). Contributors look at these films from a variety of angles, including his debts to the avant-garde and such noted precursors as Rainer Werner Fassbinder; his adventurous uses of melodrama; and his incisive portrayals of contemporary life.

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A glittering masterpiece
The screenplay leaves you almost more empty and desperate than the movie.

I love it.

This screenplay illuminates many details in the movie that are sometimes missed by the bright glittering images.It is busy, no doubt.In reading the screenplay, it is much easier to slow down and read through pieces overlooked in the movie, no matter how many times you watch it.Somehow reading it, not just hearing it, will completely shatter your heart.This was definitely done beautifully.Vision can be distracting when played against such poetry.Watch The Velvet Goldmine, read this screenplay, and watch the movie again.You will be completely sucked in, and transformed for that period of time.The movie was fun; the screenplay will break your heart.

I highly, definitely, suggest this piece of art to you.

Must-Have for Velvet Goldmine fans!
I read the screenplay in one sitting, it's just as engrossing as the movie!What I really loved was seeing some of the parts that were edited in the movie version and seeing some of the written words.The screenplay also helped to answer some questions and made things more clear; everytime I watch the movie or read the screenplay I see something new - it's amazing.The screenplay also includes quite a few black and white stills as well as a few color stills.

Todd Haynes is a genius!!!!!
The interview with Todd that is included in this book provides tremendous insight into the creative process that took place when he was writing this film. I loved the movie before I read this......now I'm awestruck.

Absolutely Brilliant!!
I devoured this in under two hours! Not only do you get a wonderful read, and stunning photographs...you get a terrific interview with Mr. Haynes.Real insight into the world of glam!If you loved this film half as muchas I did, you must have this.It is fantastic!

Amazing
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Todd Haynes is a fiercely intelligent and visionary writer-director. Haynes's award-winning short film Superstar (1987) tells the story of Karen Carpenter's dark struggle with anorexia nervosa. With a cast of Barbie dolls, the underground classic became "the most talked-about, least-seen film of the 1980's" (The Onion A.V.) after the Carpenter estate forced it permanently out of circulation. Haynes's breakthrough feature, Safe (1995), was voted Best Film of the 1990s by the 2000 Village Voice Film Critics Poll. It is the disturbing, elusive story of an affluent suburban housewife whose life is shattered by a mysterious illness. Haynes's latest movie, Far from Heaven, continues his investigation of the conflicted woman, depicting a 1950s housewife who is alienated by her neighbors when her husband's homosexuality leads her to turn to her African-American gardener. The winner of fifty critics' prizes and on over two hundred Top Ten lists (more than any film of 2002), Far from Heaven was nominated for a slew of major awards, including an Academy Award. With exquisite subtlety, all three films demonstrate Haynes's concerns as a pioneer of the "new queer cinema" who is winning increasing acceptance by the American mainstream. Black-and-white photographs are featured throughout. ... Read more

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I'm Not There is a 2007 biographical/musical film directed by Todd Haynes, inspired by iconic American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. Six actors depict different facets of Dylan's life and public persona: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere, Heath Ledger, and Ben Whishaw. At the start of the film, a caption reads: "Inspired by the music and the many lives of Bob Dylan". This is the only time Dylan's name appears in the film. The film tells its story using non-traditional narrative techniques, intercutting the storylines of the six different Dylan-inspired characters. The title of the film is taken from the 1967 Dylan Basement Tape recording, "I'm Not There", a song that had not been officially released until it appeared on the film's soundtrack album. The film received a generally favorable response, and appeared on several top ten film lists for 2007, topping the lists for The Village Voice,Entertainment Weekly, Salon and The Boston Globe. ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Todd Haynes, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 1653 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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With almost two decades of work, from the critically acclaimed low-budget Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story to Far from Heaven (for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for screenwriting), Todd Haynes has established himself as one of the most important contemporary independent filmmakers in the United States. Often described as provocative, inventive, and groundbreaking, his work is celebrated for inaugurating New Queer Cinema—a term coined in 1992 to describe the emergence of films committed to queer culture. Despite the richness and complexity of Haynes’s work—which engages auteurs ranging from Chantal Akerman to Douglas Sirk and theorists from Judith Butler to Michel Foucault—relatively little scholarly work on it has been published.

Stepping into this void, Todd Haynes: A Magnificent Obsession offers the first collection of scholarly essays exclusively devoted to Haynes’s entire oeuvre. Including critical essays by well-known and emerging scholars in television theory and feminist film, this special issue of Camera Obscura demonstrates Haynes’s engagement with history, feminism, queer culture, biography, and a range of artistic practices. In one essay a former professor of Haynes’s examines the depiction of women in many of his films, describing how Haynes revisits key questions and themes reminiscent of those invoked in the “woman’s film” genre of the 1940s and 1950s. Other essays address the representations of television and film in Far from Heaven, the aesthetics of pirated video copies of Superstar, Velvet Goldmine’s representation of the recent past, and the politics of abjection and marginalization in Poison and Safe.

Contributors. Laura Christian, Mary Desjardins, Mary Ann Doane, Lucas Hilderbrand, Lynne Joyrich, Edward R. O’Neill, Susan Potter
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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Thomson Gale on July 4, 2003. The length of the article is 1012 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Dylan, llamando a las puertas del cine: con dos peliculas biograficas, de Martin Scorsese y Todd Haynes, y otra en la que actua de protagonista, el rey del folk-rock vuelve a demostrar que esta en plena forma. (Musica).(Bob Dylan )
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Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 4, 2003
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BOMB 52, Summer 1995, featuring: Interviews with Russell Banks by Pinckney Benedict, Chuck Close by Lisa Yuskavage, Helen Mirren by Peter Eyre, Charles Ray by Paul Dickerson, Todd Haynes by Alison Maclean, Medeski, Martin & Wood by Vernon Reid, Kim Dingle by David Pagel, Patricia Spears Jones by Jenifer Berman, and Sacred Naked Nurture Girls by Coco Fusco. Essay by Luis Barragan by Carlos Brillembourg. Art by Nari Ward, Gwenn Thomas, David Humphrey, and Tom Woodruff. Fiction and poetry by Yoji Yamaguchi, Adam Klein, Martha King, Willie Perdomo, and Max Blagg. ... Read more

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Contains complete screenplays for the films THE USUAL SUSPECTS (Christopher McQuarrie), SAFE (Todd Haynes), PICTURE BRIDE (Kayo and Mari Hatta) and HEAVY (James Mangold). 208 pages. ... Read more

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Chapters: Harold Stephen Black, Elwood Haynes, Robert H. Goddard, Todd Akin, George Cowan, Dan Itse, Arthur E. Martell, Kieran Suckling, Kotaro Shimomura, Don Millard, Charles G. Washburn, Gilbert Vernam, Dominic Giampaolo, Richard T. Whitcomb, Levi L. Conant, C. Chapin Cutler, Paul Allaire, David F. Emery, James Pierpont, Nancy Pimental, Curtis Carlson, Robert Stempel, Louis Nashelsky, John Woodman Higgins. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 111. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Elwood P. Haynes (October 14, 1857 April 12, 1925) was an American inventor, metallurgist, automotive pioneer, entrepreneur and industrialist. He invented the metal alloys stellite and martensitic stainless steel and designed one of the earliest automobiles made in the United States. He is recognized for having created the earliest American design that was feasible for mass production and, with the Apperson brothers, he formed the first company in the United States to produce automobiles profitably. He made many advances in the automotive industry. Early in his career, while serving as a superintendent at gas and oil companies during Indiana's gas boom, Haynes invented several devices important to the advance of the natural gas industry. When working for the Indiana Natural Gas and Oil Company, he oversaw the construction of the first long-distance natural gas pipeline in the United States, connecting Chicago with the Trenton Gas Field 150 miles (240 km) away. He began to formulate plans for a motorized vehicle in the early 1890s; he successfully road tested his first car, the Pioneer, on July 4, 1894eight years after the first automobile was patented in Germany. He formed a partnership with Elmer and Edgar Apperson in 1896 to start Haynes-Apperson for the commercial production of automobiles, and he rename...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=9174707 ... Read more

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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Elwood Haynes, Eli Lilly, Tony Hulman, Todd Wagner, Joe Rand Beckett, Lawrence Jegen, Josiah K. Lilly, Sr., Lilly Endowment, Eli Lilly, James Graham Brown, Cook Lougheed, E. W. Kelley, Ball Brothers. Excerpt:The Ball Brothers from left to right: George A. Ball, Lucius L. Ball, Frank C. Ball, Edmund B. Ball, and William C. Ball The Ball Brothers from left to right: William Charles Ball (1852 1921), Frank Clayton Ball (1857 1943), Lucius Lorenzo Ball (seated) (1850 1932), Edmund Burke Ball (1855 1925), George Alexander Ball (1862 1955) The Ball brothers were the founders of the Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Business which eventually became Ball Corporation . They greatly improved the quality of life of Muncie, Indiana through their philanthropy and business. They were instrumental in the creation of Ball State University , and Ball Memorial Hospital , and Minnetrista , a museum in Muncie. Included in the Minnetrista Heritage Collection are a large archival collection documenting the family and business, approximately 1,000 Ball fruit jars, and other Ball products. The Ball family's legacy continues today through the Ball Brothers Foundation and the George and Frances Ball Foundation, both located in Muncie, Indiana . From oldest to youngest, the Ball Brothers were: Ball Brothers Glass Manufacturing Company (Ball Corporation ) was founded by Frank C. and Edmund B. Ball, who borrowed $200 from their uncle George Ball to buy the Wooden Jacket Can Company of Buffalo, New York. Within a few years, they added glass production to the business and, in 1884, produced their first fruit jar. To take advantage of the abundance of natural gas in East Central Indiana, the brothers built a factory in Muncie, Indiana in 1887. Over the course of the next ten years the brothers closed the fac... ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Mensaje, published by Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino on July 1, 2003. The length of the article is 1231 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Lejos del cielo. (cine).(Reseña de película)
Author: Margarita Pereira
Publication: Mensaje (Magazine/Journal)
Date: July 1, 2003
Publisher: Residencia San Roberto Bellarmino
Volume: 52Issue: 520Page: 48(2)

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This digital document is an article from Siempre!, published by Edicional Siempre on April 27, 2003. The length of the article is 693 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Un clásico del melodrama del siglo XXI: Lejos del cielo. (Cine).(Far from Heaven )(Reseña de película)
Author: Tomás Pérez Turrent
Publication: Siempre! (Refereed)
Date: April 27, 2003
Publisher: Edicional Siempre
Volume: 49Issue: 2602Page: 70(1)

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