Background
Haynes, Todd was born on January 2, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Allen E. and Sherry Lynne (Semler) Haynes.
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Haynes, Todd was born on January 2, 1961 in Los Angeles, California, United States. Son of Allen E. and Sherry Lynne (Semler) Haynes.
Bachelor in Art and Semiotics with honors, Brown University, 1985.
Velvet Goldmine was a serious disappointment after Poison and Safe—the latter one of the most arresting, original, and accomplished films of the nineties, in which abstraction and a very strange human situation were perfectly embodied in Julianne Moore’s immense but tenuous presence.
At that point, the semiotics student from Brown had a fair claim as the most talented independent filmmaker in America—for consider the documentary-with-dolly reflection on Karen Carpenter; the tripartite study of warping in Poison; and the strange sci-fi hypothesis in Safe. Velvet Goldmine, on the other hand, was a clumsy gesture towards the mainstream—a mixture of glam- rock iconography with Citizen Kiine, so much less than one had hoped for. Still, only a real mind could have produced Velvet Goldmine, and there are few careers that deserve more anticipation.
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