Posted by Larry Gleeson
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“Todd Haynes is a dazzlingly gifted author and director with a powerful vary; his physique of labor is directly stylistically versatile but additionally unmistakably his. Ever since his debut characteristic Poison gained the TEDDY AWARD in 1991, the Berlinale has adopted and beloved his filmmaking, and we’re overjoyed to have him be part of the pageant because the President of the Worldwide Jury for our seventy fifth version,” says Berlinale Director Tricia Tuttle.
Over almost 40 years, Todd Haynes has been probably the most daring and distinctive filmmaking voices in US-American cinema, beloved for his nice sensitivity in exploring the inside worlds of outsiders and ladies, and his fascinating investigations into gender and id.
His ability at creating complicated characters has attracted most of the world’s best actors. Stars reminiscent of Julianne Moore, Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Kate Winslet, Anne Hathaway, Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Christian Bale and Ewan McGregor have performed the multi-layered characters in his movies. Todd Haynes’ movies and their actors have gained awards at quite a few worldwide movie festivals.
Rising into worldwide prominence within the early Nineties as a part of an exhilarating new era of US-American administrators (dubbed “New Queer Cinema” by critic B. Ruby Wealthy), by the point of his four-time Oscar nominated movie, Removed from Heaven (2002), Haynes was totally established as a serious pressure in US filmmaking. His characteristic movie debut Poison acquired the TEDDY AWARD, the queer movie prize on the Berlinale, in 1991, and gained the Grand Jury Prize on the Sundance Movie Competition. Different key works embrace Protected (1995), Velvet Goldmine (1998), the fictional Bob Dylan biopic I’m Not There (2007), which gained the Grand Jury Prize in Venice, the mini-series Mildred Pierce (2011), Carol (2015), Wonderstruck (2017), Darkish Waters (2019), The Velvet Underground (2021) and Might December (2023).
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