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Cate Blanchett in Carol (2015)

In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world.

Velvet Goldmine (1998)

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Ruminations on the life of Bob Dylan, where six characters embody a different aspect of the musician's life and work.

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As far as modern filmmaking goes, there aren’t many who have better utilized the medium like Sirk.

Ewan McGregor in Velvet Goldmine

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Production designer Judy Becker brings 1950s New York to life in director Todd Haynes’s latest film

With movies like Velvet Goldmine, Far From Heaven and Carol, and his HBO adaptation of Mildred Pierce, it's clear Todd Haynes has a love of the past. Yet while Hollywood cynically mines nostalgia with rebooted '80s movies and the reference fest Ready Player One, Haynes' films display a genuine affection for and interest in the world as it appeared in the middle of the twentieth century, and few filmmakers are so obsessive in their period recreation...

I loved the movie "Safe", but now I'm feeling like Julianne Moore's character...

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Directed by Todd Haynes. With Merrill Gruver, Michael Edwards, Melissa Brown, Rob LaBelle. Karen Carpenter's battle with anorexia nervosa and the cultural influence of the Carpenters in the 70s.