[lbo-talk] Todd Haynes and Mildred Pierce

[Mark Bennett]

"Camp" is an understatement.  The Joan Crawford vehicle is off-the-charts
campy.  It will be very interesting to see what Haynes does with this.

On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Dennis Claxton <ddclaxton at earthlink.net>wrote:


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