Happy Birthday: Todd Haynes

Love stories, unlike war films which are about conquering the object, are about conquering the subject. It’s always the subject who is in a state of vulnerability and peril. What I loved about the story is that what happens to the two women moves them through a series of events which change them both, and by the end of the film it shifts. All the elements of looking and who’s being looked at, were conducive to the cinematic feeling.

Happy Birthday: Taylor Hackford

Taylor Hackford Born: December 31, 1944 in Santa Barbara, California, USA Married to: Helen Mirren (31 December 1997 – present) Russell Crowe is very difficult, but it’s worth it. He’s the real thing. I can tell you this. Russell Crowe was just as difficult before he was an international star as he was afterwards. In… Continue reading Happy Birthday: Taylor Hackford