[lbo-talk] Todd Haynes and Mildred Pierce

[Dennis Claxton]

I got way more interested in this when I found 
out Todd Haynes is the director.  Haynes is a real treasure I think:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-mildred-pierce-review-20110325,0,5571730.story

Todd Haynes' five-part HBO miniseries "Mildred 
Pierce" is not just great television, it's a 
revelation. Wresting James M. Cain's original 
story of ambition and maternal morality from the 
camp-classic embrace of the 1945 Joan Crawford 
film, Haynes has created not only a rich and 
nuanced vehicle for his A-list cast ­ among them 
Kate Winslet, Evan Rachel Wood and Guy Pearce ­ 
he has given us a rare and valuable gift: an American melodrama about class.

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