Far From Heaven

press release: USA | 2002 | 35mm | 107 min.

Director: Todd Haynes; Cast: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert

Moore stars in Haynes’s brilliant reconfiguration of All That Heaven Allows.  As in Sirk’s classic melodrama, a wealthy woman falls for her gardener, though Haynes makes key changes to address 1950s mores on race and homosexuality. Meticulously designed on every level, from Ed Lachman’s lush cinematography to Elmer Bernstein’s orchestral score, “Far From Heaven is like the best and bravest movie of 1957. Four stars” (Roger Ebert).

Our numerous and diverse Fall 2018 special presentations include a screening of an excellent vintage print of Roger Corman’s low-budget The Little Shop of Horrors; Douglas Sirk’s masterful melodrama All That Heaven Allows and Todd Hayne’s reworking of Sirk, Far from Heaven; rare 35mm prints of Antonioni’s counter-culture classic Zabriskie Point and Claire Denis sibling saga Nenette and Boni; a screening of the popular recent documentary The Eagle Huntress with producer Stacey Reiss in person; plus new digital restorations of two cult horror comedies from the early 1980s: Basket Case and Strange Behavior, as well as George Sluizer’s great thriller The Vanishing, Powell and Pressburger’s repressed nuns classic Black Narcissus, and the landmark independent Buddies, the first movie to depict the AIDS crisis.

All Cinematheque screenings are free and open to the public.