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Poison is a 1991 American science fiction drama horror film written and directed by Todd Haynes, starring Edith Meeks, Larry Maxwell, Susan Gayle Norman, Scott Renderer, and James Lyons. Composed of three intercut narratives inspired by the novels of Jean Genet, the gay themes in Poison marked an emerging "queer new wave" in cinema.
Nov 5, 2010 · Nov. 5, 2010. A MILESTONE in American independent film and the inciting spark for what came to be known as the New Queer Cinema, Todd Haynes’s first feature, “Poison” (1991), has always...
1 day ago · Poison. Grief attacks silently in the intimate drama Poison. It suffocates people, slowly and meticulously, until not much is left. But it also cruelly allows these folks to go on, even though they don’t even want to. In Désirée Nosbusch ’s movie, which has world-premiered at the Munich Film Festival, a couple lost a child. There was a ...
Aug 16, 1991 · Poison: Directed by Todd Haynes. With Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta. A boy shoots his father and flies out the window. A man falls in love with a fellow inmate in prison. A doctor accidentally ingests his experimental sex serum, wreaking havoc on the community.
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- Drama, Horror, Romance
- Todd Haynes
- 1991-08-16
Jun 11, 2021 · The opening on-screen text of Todd Haynes’s Poison promises an unsettled experience. Yet these words also might as well be predicting the puritanical response to the film that erupted from conservative quarters.
Homophobia's enduring power to destroy us seeps into our bones and Haynes regurgitates it in disjointed screams--physical disease, frustrated fantasies, toxic masculinity.
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Jul 1, 2024 · Films like Poison are home for me, the films I do with Michel Franco are home.” Kissenger Takes Paris will reunite Roth with Stanzler, who directed him in his first U.S.-shot role in the 1991 ...
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