
Born
January 2, 1961
Place of Birth
Los Angeles, California, USA
Todd Haynes (/heɪnz/; born January 2, 1961; Los Angeles) is an American filmmaker. His films span four decades with themes examining the personalities of well-known musicians, dysfunctional and dystopian societies, and blurred gender roles. Haynes first gained public attention with his controversial short film Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987), which chronicles singer Karen Carpenter's …

Barbara Forever
2026

Art-House America: Austin Film Society
2023

Douglas Sirk – Hope as in Despair
2022
Dark Waters: The Cost of Being a Hero
2019

At the Video Store
2019

Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016

Great Directors
2009
Notes on the Death of Kodachrome
2007

Infinite Pleasure: Todd Haynes on Max Ophuls' Le Plaisir
2006
Maternal Overdrive
2006

Fabulous! The Story of Queer Cinema
2006

Eine Zärtlichkeit wie bei Sirk - Todd Haynes über Fassbinder und das Melodram
2006

At Sundance
1995

Swoon
1992
He Was Once
1989

Natural History
1989

Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story
1987

Assassins: A Film Concerning Rimbaud
1985