'Far From Heaven': Stellar Storytelling. By Desson Howe. November 14, 2002 at 7:00 p.m. EST. OF ALL the 20th-century decades, the 1950s gets it worst, in terms of ridicule, in the movies.

Style, substance and originality, too? In 2002? Pass me the smelling salts. But you get all that-and more-in Far From Heaven , the ravishing new film by writer-director Todd Haynes that has already… ...

”Far From Heaven” is a dazzling conceptual feat, but more than that, it’s a work of enthralling drama — a deconstruction of Hollywood soap opera that is also a full-fledged, ...

Todd Haynes executed this risky directorial maneuver in his stylized 2002 movie, “Far from Heaven,” an ironic homage to Douglas Sirk’s 1955 domestic melodrama, ...

Before “Mad Men,” Todd Haynes’ 2002 film “Far From Heaven” cornered the post-millennial market on the rotting underbelly of mid-century upper-middle-class suburbia. But while “Mad Men ...

Far From Heaven Off-Broadway in 2013 - Far From Heaven FAR FROM HEAVEN tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife living in suburban Hartford who watches as her seemingly perfect life ...

Jennifer Ellis and Maurice Emmanuel Parent in SpeakEasy Stage Company's "Far from Heaven." (Craig Bailey/Perspective Photo) The 1950s. The grandfatherly Dwight Eisenhower in the White House.

O'Hara's isn't the only estimable name involved in Heaven.Richard Greenberg, whose many credits include the Tony Award-winning Take Me Out and this past season's Tony-nominated The Assembled ...

Turning the great 2002 film Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes’s magnificent satire of Hollywood’s “women’s pictures” from the sanitized, repressed 1950s, into a stylized musical at ...

“Far from Heaven” has its moments, and its enduring themes of race, class, sex and hints of “Mad Men”-meets-“Transparent,” carry a contemporary ring.

Far From Heaven harks back to an era of American traditionalism, where in the 1950s conservatism was at its peak and somewhat simple things like having a. Skip to content. News; ...