Far from Heaven (2002)

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Wikidata Q1130664, film, IMDb tt0297884, TMDB 10712: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by the only film by that title; 2 more episodes agree.

What a model would be handed about it, for corpus:ask.

Who talked about it

Blank Check with Griffin & David

The Big Picture

Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

Douglas Sirk: 1 line the maker said so ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Douglas Sirk ⇒ Far from Heaven (the maker said so: Haynes in the interview segment). Sean asks whether Moore studied Sirk films; Haynes says Far from Heaven derives from other movies and 1950s domestic melodramas.
    “do you watch Douglas Cirque films when you're preparing”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:56:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Douglas Sirk: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (influence): Far from Heaven → Douglas Sirk. Sean asks whether Moore studied Sirk films; Haynes says Far from Heaven derives from other movies and 1950s domestic melodramas.
    “do you watch Douglas Cirque films when you're preparing”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:56:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

Elmer Bernstein: 1 line verdict ×1

  1. verdict (verdict): Elmer Bernstein → Far from Heaven. Elmer Bernstein's score for Far from Heaven is called amazing.
    “But far from heaven, the Elmer Bernstein score for that is amazing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:42:43 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Safe: 1 line lineage ×1

  1. lineage (original vs derived): Far from Heaven → Safe. Haynes says Safe and Far from Heaven were original stories but Far from Heaven derives much from other movies.
    “safe was an original story and far from heaven was the original story, but it derives so much from other movies as well.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:55:37 · Todd Haynes (0.90 sure it was them)

Velvet Goldmine: 1 line unmapped ×1

  1. unmapped (artifice as method): Far from Heaven → Velvet Goldmine. Haynes uses artificial languages for real stories (Dylan, Velvet Goldmine); Far from Heaven is fiction in an artificial melodrama mode, yet the emotions are real.
    “Far from heaven is not a, based on a true story and the mode is highly artificial in the melodramatic domestic dramas that are inspired by the 1950s.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:17:52 · Todd Haynes (0.90 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

lineage (2)

  1. lineage (original vs derived): Far from Heaven → Safe. Haynes says Safe and Far from Heaven were original stories but Far from Heaven derives much from other movies.
    “safe was an original story and far from heaven was the original story, but it derives so much from other movies as well.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:55:37 · Todd Haynes (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. lineage (influence): Far from Heaven → Douglas Sirk. Sean asks whether Moore studied Sirk films; Haynes says Far from Heaven derives from other movies and 1950s domestic melodramas.
    “do you watch Douglas Cirque films when you're preparing”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:56:54 · Sean Fennessey (0.80 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (artifice as method): Far from Heaven → Velvet Goldmine. Haynes uses artificial languages for real stories (Dylan, Velvet Goldmine); Far from Heaven is fiction in an artificial melodrama mode, yet the emotions are real.
    “Far from heaven is not a, based on a true story and the mode is highly artificial in the melodramatic domestic dramas that are inspired by the 1950s.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:17:52 · Todd Haynes (0.90 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Elmer Bernstein → Far from Heaven. Elmer Bernstein's score for Far from Heaven is called amazing.
    “But far from heaven, the Elmer Bernstein score for that is amazing.”
    Blank Check with Griffin & David · Empire of the Sun with Bilge Ebiri · 0:42:43 · Griffin Newman or David Sims (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

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