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Thursday, Mar 20, 2025
7:00 PM (116 mins)
BAMPFA
Todd Haynes’s Early Works
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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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