Portland's Latest Gay Filmmaker Is Critical Success
By AAN Staff
november 18, 2002 09:41 am
Todd Haynes, director of "Far From
Heaven," is a different filmmaker, who's
opted to live in a Portland, Ore.,
Craftsman bungalow amid three lots'
worth of verdant vegetation. He's a
genuine critics' favorite, a poster boy for
independent film.
But
what really sets Haynes apart from other
moviemakers is "a devotion to the
cinematic theme of
homosexuality that goes beyond merely
having fey characters," Byron
Beck writes in Willamette Week.
"He's made only a handful
of
films--all critical, if not all commercial,
successes. And each of them, in its own
way,
looks at life through a lavender
lens. "