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Movie Review: Emotional complexity, melodramatic wit and masterful acting in ‘May December’

Natalie Portman plays an actress researching a real-life subject for a role in Todd Haynes' “May December.”

The Independent UK

Todd Haynes on May December, controversy and being rejected by Bowie: ‘All my movies feel headed for disaster’

The Oscar-nominated director behind ‘Velvet Goldmine’, ‘Carol’ and ‘I’m Not There’ tells Adam White about his provocative new film: a scorching melodrama about sex, narcissism and tabloid infamy starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman

The Independent UK

‘Every great actor gets really scared’: Todd Haynes on Heath Ledger, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett

Ahead of his latest film, May December, the director discusses eschewing mainstream audiences, casting a woman as Bob Dylan and failing to get David Bowie’s approval for Velvet Goldmine

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Post your questions for Carol and Velvet Underground director Todd Haynes

The influential director’s latest film, May December, is coming to cinemas soon. Here’s your chance to ask him about this and other provocative work, from Carol to I’m Not There

The Guardian - UK

Killers of the Flower Moon leads the way in bumper 2023 BFI London Film Festival schedule

The 12-day festival, centred around the BFI theatre on South Bank but also featuring cinemas across London and the UK, kicks off on Ocotber 4

Evening Standard

Barbie review – a riotous, candy-coloured feminist fable

Barbie takes a ride from her dream house to reality as Little Women writer-director Greta Gerwig takes another cultural icon and lovingly subverts it

The Guardian - UK

The banned Barbie film: her anguished first role as Karen Carpenter

Todd Haynes animated the impossibly slender doll to show what drove the singer to her early death. The film has more in common than you might expect with Greta Gerwig’s blockbuster

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Todd Haynes' 'May December' to open 61st New York Film Festival

The 61st New York Film Festival will kick off with Todd Haynes’ “May December,” a juicy drama starring Natalie Portman as an actor preparing for a film about a years-ago tabloid scandal

The Independent UK

Finland in 1944, Kurdish ghettos of Bonn, and January 6: the top 5 films at the Sydney Film Festival in 2023

Winter on Market Street, and it’s time to switch off one’s phone and retreat to the cinema cave for the 12 days of hibernation known as the Sydney Film Festival.

The Conversation

5 filmmakers whose work you need to catch up on this summer

I often tell my film criticism students, as they prepare to review a new movie, that it's always helpful to familiarize yourself with a director's past work. That might sound like fairly obvious advice, but it's worth reinforcing for someone not accustomed to watching movies through the lens of auteurism,…

Los Angeles Times

Natalie Portman's husband 'doing all he can' to save his marriage after 'affair'

Natalie Portman and her husband Benjamin Millepied are reportedly still together and working through their marital issues amid reports he cheated with a younger woman

Daily Mirror

Natalie Portman seen kissing husband days before reports he 'cheated with 25-year-old'

Natalie Portman was seen packing on the PDA with her husband Benjamin Millepied just days before it was reported that he cheated on her with a younger woman

Daily Mirror

The best films to watch on Apple TV+ in June 2023

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

The Independent UK

The best films to watch on Apple TV+

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

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Cannes Film Festival: Justine Triet wins Palme d’Or for Anatomy Of A Fall

The thriller saw off tough competition from new films by acclaimed directors including Wes Anderson and Todd Haynes

The Independent UK

The best films to watch on Apple TV+

From ‘Tetris’ and ‘Causeway’ to documentaries on The Velvet Underground and Michael J Fox, here are our picks for the best films to watch on the streaming platform today

Tribune News Service

Joaquin Phoenix to star in NC-17 ‘gay love story set in 1930s LA’

Joaquin Phoenix is set to star in a period gay romance, director Todd Haynes revealed at the Cannes International Film Festival earlier this week.

Total Film

Joaquin Phoenix to star in gay romance from Carol director Todd Haynes

Phoenix also has a story credit on the movie

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Natalie Portman addresses double standards of how women ‘are expected to behave’ at Cannes Film Festival

The Oscar winner made the comments during a press conference at the 76th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday

The Independent UK

Natalie Portman and Todd Haynes dive into the nature of performance in 'May December' at Cannes

Todd Haynes' “May December" is a delicious and disquieting drama laced with comedy and camp that premiered over the weekend at the Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

Todd Haynes teases his next gay romance starring Joaquin Phoenix will be an NC-17 film

‘Carol’ director said Phoenix was ‘pushing’ him to go ‘further’ with the storyline

The Independent UK

In Cannes, standing ovations stretch on and on — but they're designed to

The Cannes Film Festival is on, which means stopwatches are out

Evening Standard

May December at Cannes review: Todd Haynes undercooks what could have been a tasty drama

An intriguing premise is let down by a curiously off-hand lack of logical questioning in this film, starring Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman

The Independent UK

May December, Cannes review: Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore are tremendous in this Todd Haynes melodrama

Much of the pleasure in this focused character study is derived from its clash of styles

The Guardian - UK

May December review – Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman potent in Highsmithian drama

Todd Haynes’ film has Portman as an actor spending time with Moore’s married sex offender as research for playing her in a film

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