“Far From Heaven” is a movie for hardcore film geeks and regular folk alike, a stunning, and stunningly improbable, fusion of postmodern pastiche and old-school Hollywood melodrama.

That's especially true if the heroine is played by the glorious Kelli O'Hara, now appearing off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons in Far From Heaven (* * * out of four).

At first blush, it looks as though "Far From Heaven" is about to go the cynical or satirically giggly route. In 1957, we meet a beautiful Hartford, Conn., couple who seem to be living in Life ...

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. Bu… ...

FAR FROM HEAVEN tells the story of Cathy Whitaker, a 1950s housewife living in suburban Hartford who watches as her seemingly perfect life begin to fall apart. The film echoes "women's films" of ...

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… ...

Decade: Todd Haynes on "Far From Heaven"Along with longtime producing collaborator Christine Vachon, Haynes’ name is synonymous with American independent film. And looking back at the last 10 ...

‘Far From Heaven’: Theater Review Kelli O'Hara, Steven Pasquale and Isaiah Johnson star in this musical based on the Julianne Moore film and from the composer-lyricist team behind the Tony ...

How Far Is Heaven From Nirvana? (Guest Column) To many, a t-shirt design by Marc Jacobs might scream "rip-off" of Kurt Cobain, but the legal analysis is more complex.

Why bother with a movie about a girly-swirly Connecticut housewife, circa 1957? Because Far From Heaven is a classic of its kind. Because Julianne Moore and Dennis Quaid give the performances of ...

Twenty years ago, filmmaker Todd Haynes premiered his highly stylized feature “Far From Heaven,” set in the glamorous and suffocating world of 1957 and starring his favorite leading lady ...

Todd Haynes' "Far From Heaven," is an accomplished marriage of style and content. Appropriating the look and language of Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas, Haynes deftly employs the genre's ...