Todd Haynes

Speaks on the shows. Their sketches and lines as a speaker.

Wikidata Q446580: matched by corpus:resolve, told apart by Wikidata joins them to May December, which Physical Media Strikes Back With Tim Simons credits them on.

Counted as director, the making department they hold the most credits in. The films the hosts said they directed, which the two lists below run through too: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987); Safe (1995); Velvet Goldmine (1998); Far from Heaven (2002); I'm Not There (2007); Dark Waters (2019); The Velvet Underground (2021); May December (2023); I'm Not There (the Bob Dylan film); Wonderstruck.

Draws on

What the speakers say they, or a film of theirs, 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

  1. lineage (influence) · through Far from Heaven (2002), which they directed: 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)

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973): 1 line

  1. lineage (pastiche source) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they directed: Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Haynes styles one segment after Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid and another after Pennebaker, so the film is also different period filmmaking.
    “he styles one whole segment after, you know, Pat Garrett and Noie the Kid.”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:13:32 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor) · through I'm Not There (2007), which they directed: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

Drawn on by

What the speakers say drew on them or a film of theirs, marked the same way.

I'm Not There (2007): 1 line, within their own work

  1. lineage (spiritual progenitor) · through Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which they directed: Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story ⇒ I'm Not There (the host's read). Todd Haynes's first film, the Barbie-doll Karen Carpenter story, is the progenitor of I'm Not There's foregrounded cliches.
    “a movie that's kind of the spiritual progenitor if I'm not there, which is Superstar, which is the 1st thing Todd Haynes ever made”
    The Big Picture · ‘Elvis,’ ‘Walk Hard’ and Top Five Music Biopics · 1:11:55 · Adam Nayman (0.85 sure it was them)

What the speakers said they did

Directing (18) everyone in directing

What was said about them, by kind

career (4)

  1. career (career): A Single Man → Todd Haynes. Brian cannot understand how Tom Ford made A Single Man, the way he cannot with Todd Haynes.
    “sort of like the way I'd think about Todd Haynes”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:03:07 · Brian Koppelman (0.65 sure it was them)
  2. career (career): Safe → Todd Haynes. Safe would be one or two on a list if it were a debut, but Haynes's first was Superstar.
    “Because safe would be, you know, as one or 2 on my list”
    The Big Picture · Top Five Gen X Director Debuts, the Fate of ‘Black Widow,’ and a Potential Oscars Disaster · 1:03:20 · Sean Fennessey (0.40 sure it was them)
  3. career (career): Todd Haynes → Velvet Goldmine. Haynes gets weird films financed on small budgets.
    “He made velvet gold mine.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:44:26 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)
  4. career (career): Todd Haynes → Wonderstruck. Haynes got money for a half-silent black-and-white children's film.
    “getting any amount of 1000000s of dollars to make a half silent black and white children's film.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:44:50 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

programming (1)

  1. programming (recommendation): Todd Haynes → Poor Things. Haynes recently saw Poor Things and loved it, singling out Mark Ruffalo.
    “I just saw poor things recently and man, I loved it.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 2:19:43 · Todd Haynes (0.65 sure it was them)

unmapped (1)

  1. unmapped (creative counterpart): Julianne Moore → Todd Haynes. Haynes says Moore's performance in Safe completed the film he had imagined.
    “you find this counterpart, you know, this creative counterpart in your in your dreams.”
    The Big Picture · Best Picture Power Rankings and a ‘Poor Things’ Deep Dive. Plus: Julianne Moore and Todd Haynes! · 1:52:07 · Todd Haynes (0.90 sure it was them)

verdict (1)

  1. verdict (verdict): Mel Brooks → Todd Haynes. Brooks beat Haynes in round one.
    “Brooks just demonstrated some strength against Todd Haynes.”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:43:43 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about them

  1. fun, about Todd Haynes: Argument that Haynes' tiny budgets still count as a blank check because of total creative control.
    “$7000000 with 0 interference in a weird genre play is always more of a blank check than someone getting $250 million”
    Blank Check — Patreon · 2025 March Madness Update 1 · 0:45:16 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)