More specifically, “Far From Heaven” bears a family resemblance to Sirk’s 1955 “All That Heaven Allows,” in which the widowed Jane Wyman sends her uptight suburban community into a tizzy ...

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 ...

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': 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.

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 ...

In “Far From Heaven,” Moore’s character, Cathy Whitaker, faces a different set of ills. Incorporating elements from Sirk’s “All That Heaven Allows” and “Imitation of Life ...

For "Far From Heaven," he studied Sirk, particularly the 1955 tearjerker "All That Heaven Allows," to approximate the way Hollywood depicted the moral struggles of a '50s New England community.

Focus Features’ “Far from Heaven” is currenly in theaters.] Any director can make Barbie dolls tragic knows how to tread the delicate line between stylization and sentiment.

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… ...

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 ...