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Modern Cinema: Sparks on Celluloid

Haynes + Vachon

Oct 12–29, 2017

Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon have been working together since Poison, her first feature as producer and his first as director. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 1991 as well as a Teddy, the official queer award of the Berlin Film Festival. Dennis Lim has cited the film in The New York Times as “the inciting spark” for what came to be known as the New Queer Cinema. Vachon and Haynes’s partnership has continued and flourished through theatrical and television features as well as music videos and documentary work, including their latest, Wonderstruck, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May. Explore the full range of their fruitful collaboration and the gems that inspired this landmark team.

Modern Cinema, co-presented by SFMOMA and SFFILM, is an ongoing film series exploring the dynamic forces interacting between cinema’s past and present.

Modern Cinema’s Founding Supporters are Carla Emil and Rich Silverstein. Support is provided by Nion T. McEvoy and the Susan Wildberg Morgenstein Fund. This season of Modern Cinema is generously supported by James C. Hormel and Michael P. Nguyen.

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Poison
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 6 p.m.
A man screaming
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Bad Timing: A Sensual Obsession
Thursday, October 12, 2017, 8:15 p.m.
A man and a woman embracing on a bed
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Performance
Friday, October 13, 2017, 6 p.m.
Mick Jagger in the bath
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Velvet Goldmine
Friday, October 13, 2017, 8:30 p.m.
Man singing into a microphone
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Safe
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 12:30 p.m.
a woman standing and crying in between two other women
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Two or Three Things I Know About Her
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
A woman in a blue t-shirt smoking
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Shorts by Todd Haynes and Christine Vachon
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 6 p.m.
A man spanking a woman
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Saturday, October 14, 2017, 9 p.m.
The women lounging on a bed
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Oliver!
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 1 p.m.
A little boy walking towards the camera with an empty bowl
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The Hours and Times
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 4:30 p.m.
Scene of two men in suits, in black and white
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Parting Glances
Sunday, October 15, 2017, 6:30 p.m.
Actor Steve Buscemi in sunglasses
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Sweetie
Thursday, October 19, 2017, 7 p.m.
two women's faces up close
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Mildred Pierce
Friday, October 20, 2017, 11 a.m.
A woman and her daughter embrace
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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Friday, October 20, 2017, 6 p.m.
Three people sitting at a coffee shop
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Far from Heaven
Friday, October 20, 2017, 8:30 p.m.
Four women from the 50s chatting in front of the house
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I’m Not There
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 8 p.m.
A woman dressed as Bob Dylan
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Cabaret
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 2 p.m.
A female cabaret dancer on a chair
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Boys Don’t Cry
Saturday, October 21, 2017, 5 p.m.
Two teens sitting and chatting
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All that Heaven Allows
Sunday, October 22, 2017, 1 p.m.
A man and a woman embracing
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Wonderstruck
Sunday, October 22, 2017, 3:30 p.m.
A young girl listening next to a door
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Heavenly Creatures
Sunday, October 22, 2017, 7 p.m.
Still of two women lying in the grass
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All the President’s Men
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 6 p.m.
Two men looking at a typewriter
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Alice’s Restaurant
Thursday, October 26, 2017, 9 p.m.
A man with a knife and fork, sitting at a table
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The Wrong Man
Friday, October 27, 2017, 6 p.m.
A man and a woman with fingers pointing at them
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Strangers on a Train
Friday, October 27, 2017, 8:30 p.m.
Two men sitting at a table
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2001: A Space Odyssey
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
A close up of a male astronaut's face
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Carol
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 5 p.m.
One woman crying while another consoles her
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Lola
Saturday, October 28, 2017, 8 p.m.
Woman in a sparkly dress
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The Go-Between
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 2 p.m.
A man and woman in period clothing
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The Night of the Hunter
Sunday, October 29, 2017, 5 p.m.
A man with hat with LOVE and HATE tattoed on his knuckles