• Todd Haynes: Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, 1985

  • Todd Haynes: Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud, 1985

  • Todd Haynes: Dottie Gets Spanked, 1993

Todd Haynes’s Early Works

  • Introduction

    Mary Ann Doane is Professor Emeritus; Class of 1937 Professor of Film & Media at UC Berkeley.

Todd Haynes’s first film depicts Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s conflicted love. Light Industry noted, “Anticipating the concerns of Superstar, Poison, and Velvet Goldmine, it’s a Godardian essay that cannily plays with the artifice of its own student-film limitations, while reveling in the rough beauty of lo-fi production. The sounds of Iggy Pop and Throbbing Gristle are juxtaposed against fragments of a deadbeat costume-picture; elements from the lives of Genet and Fassbinder bleed into those of Rimbaud and Verlaine.” Also on the program is Dottie Gets Spanked, which Zeitgeist Films described as a “dazzling suburban phantasm . . . a stylized, bittersweet nod to [Haynes’s] childhood fascination with I Love Lucy.”

Films in this Screening

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud

Todd Haynes, United States, 1985

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Todd Haynes
Print Info
  • B&W/Color
  • DCP
  • 43 mins
source
  • IndieCollect
Additional Info
  • 4K restoration by IndieCollect and UCLA Film & Television Archive

Dottie Gets Spanked

Todd Haynes, United States, 1993

FEATURING
Evan Bonifant
Barbara Garrick
Julie Halston
Robert Pall

FILM DETAILS 
Screenwriter
  • Todd Haynes
Cinematographer
  • Maryse Alberti
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 30 mins
source
  • UCLA Film & Television Archive
Additional Info
  • Digital restoration courtesy of the UCLA Film & Television Archive

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