Why This Is Hell

( XXI: J.M. Kenny, An Evening with Kevin Smith II: Evening Harder (2006) )

I've been a fan of Todd Haynes for ages, although I didn't quite get to him in the days of New Queer Cinema. Poison was a complex, three taled structure: a weird mocumentary about a boy who flew, a 1950s horror about isolating sex and a pastiche of Jean Genet's prison pornutopia. Velvet Goldmine is a post-Wilde reimagining of David Bowie via Citizen Kane - in which an instantly identifiable Croydon is labelled "New York". They don't even flip it to get the traffic on the correct side of the road. Then I went back to <safe> just before Far From Heaven remade Sirk by putting all the subtext back in.

So I really wanted to see his new film:

( XXII: Todd Haynes, I'm Not There. (2007) )


Totals: 22 [Cinema: 8; DVD: 13; TV: 1]