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Portland's Latest Gay Filmmaker Is Critical Success

By AAN Staff
november 18, 2002  09:41 am
Portland's Latest Gay Filmmaker Is Critical Success
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. "
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