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Michelle Williams Says Todd Haynes’ Peggy Lee Biopic Is Dead & Talks About Speaking Out On Pay Equity In Hollywood

May 10, 2022 2:41 pm

Actress Michelle Williams and filmmaker Kelly Reichardt ("Wendy & Lucy") have reunited for the drama "Showing Up,” a low-budget pic that sees Williams play a tightly wound artist named Lizzie. The film wil...

Todd Haynes Talks ‘The Velvet Underground,’ Lou Reed What-Ifs & His Peggy Lee Biopic [Interview]

Charles Bramesco

October 7, 2021 12:54 pm

Features, Interviews, News

Musical biography, with its well-worn beats of sudden stardom and hedonistic self-immolation, lends itself to cliché like few other cinematic genres. But Todd Haynes has spent a goodly portion of his career de...

‘The Velvet Underground’ Trailer: Todd Haynes Chronicles The Outsiders Who Disrupted Rock ‘N Roll

Edward Davis

August 30, 2021 11:30 am

News, Trailers

Filmmaker Todd Haynes' career is arguably one long marriage of art school tendencies and an obsession with formative rock n' roll from the '60s and '70s. His career began with the experimental short, "Superst...

‘The Velvet Underground’: Todd Haynes Captures The Chaotic, Brutal Beauty Of Rock’s Most Important Underground Band [Cannes Review]

Rodrigo Perez

July 7, 2021 6:15 pm

Features, Festivals, News, Reviews

The always artful filmmaker Todd Haynes totally ignores the one clichéd anecdote about the iconoclastic rock group The Velvet Underground in his superb, eponymic doc “The Velvet Underground,” a film that shoul...

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‘The Velvet Underground’ First Look Clip: Todd Haynes’ Documentary On The Legendary Band Premieres At Cannes

Ned Booth

July 5, 2021 11:33 am

News, Video

Director Todd Haynes is no stranger to musically-inclined films. He took on the glam rock genre with 1998's "Velvet Goldmine" and made a truly singular biopic about Bob Dylan with 2007's "I'm Not There." Now, ...

Oscar-Winners Natalie Portman & Julianne Moore To Lead Todd Haynes Drama ‘May December’

Christopher Marc

June 11, 2021 3:28 pm

News

The Virtual Cannes Film Market is underway, which means many deals and projects are coming together in hot packages. Just revealed, Oscar-winning actresses Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are attached to le...

‘Fever’: Todd Haynes Revives Old Peggy Lee Biopic With Michelle Williams In The Lead

Rodrigo Perez

February 4, 2021 10:06 pm

News

The artistic sensibilities of filmmaker Todd Haynes and Michelle Williams seem perfectly matched. And the collaborations have happened—the two previously partnered on “I’m Not Here,” and “Wonderstruck,” but th...

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The 5 Best Movies To Buy Or Stream This Week: ‘Dark Waters,’ ‘Queen & Slim’ & More

Jason Bailey

March 3, 2020 2:51 pm

News

Every Tuesday, discriminating viewers are confronted with a flurry of choices: new releases on disc and on-demand, vintage and original movies on any number of streaming platforms, catalog titles making a spla...

Todd Haynes Talks ‘Dark Waters,’ Studio Filmmaking & Directing Other People’s Scripts [Interview]

Charles Bramesco

November 20, 2019 2:33 pm

Features, Interviews, News

There’s been an overtone of befuddlement to the reception for Todd Haynes’ latest picture, the legal procedural “Dark Waters.” Where’s the smoldering queer angst, the reverent evocation of a stylized past, the ...

‘Dark Waters’: The System Is Rigged In Todd Haynes’ Earnest Eco-Political Thriller [Review]

Luke Hicks

November 13, 2019 5:00 pm

Features, News, Reviews

“The system is rigged,” corporate defense attorney turned protector of the people, Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo) vents angrily to his wife Sarah (Anne Hathaway) in a Benihana’s parking lot, fourteen painstaking yea...

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