Todd Haynes’s I'm Not THERE. | 2007

Clip Name: The Story of Jack Rollins

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Todd Haynes’s I'm Not THERE. | 2007

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Ben Whishaw and Christian Bale
Directed by: Todd Haynes
About this director

Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961) is an American independent film director. He is best known for his feature films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, Safe, and the Academy Award-nominated Far from Heaven and I'm Not There. The All Movie Guide writes that "Haynes is known for making provocative films that subvert narrative structure and resound with transgressive, complex eroticism…. Although he doesn't characterize himself as a gay filmmaker who makes gay films… Haynes' name has become synonymous with the New Queer Cinema movement and its work to both explore and redefine the contours of queer culture in America and beyond." Haynes’ work is preoccupied with postmodernist ideas of identity and sexuality as socially constructed concepts, and personal identity as a fluid and changeable state. His protagonists are invariably social outsiders whose "subversive" identity and sexuality pits them at odds with the received norms of their society. In the Haynes universe, sexuality ...