Storytelling

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Xander Berkeley, Mike Schank, Franka Potente, Lupe..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Happiness

Solondz uncovers suburbia's dirty secrets.

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle,..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wiener-Dog

Todd Solondz sets a pup in a world of humans who are all bark and more bite

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Greta Gerwig, Julie Delpy, Danny DeVito, Ellen..."

July 1, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

This Is a Love Story

Back and forth with Tood Solondz on his new film, 'Palindromes'

"...peculiar that, if you're looking for the films of Todd Solondz in at least one local video store, you'll..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Walking on Sunshine

Tood Solondz's feel-bad movie of the year

"...Dollhouse's Dawn Wiener skulked into view, an anniversary director Todd Solondz marks by opening his new film, Palindromes, with..."

May 6, 2005 Screens Feature by Cindy Widner

Cleopatra's Second Husband

"...Hipp. Thanks to the likes of Neil LaBute and Todd Solondz, filmgoers commonly associate tastefully twee urban lifestyles with..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Life During Wartime

Todd Solondz revisits the family from his film Happiness, but the characters are all played by different actors, and the result is no less disconcerting.

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Emma Hinz, Allison..."

Aug. 20, 2010 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dark Horse

Optimistic youth continue to curdle in this latest Todd Solondz outing, even though the film's tone is less shrill and insistent.

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Jordan Gelber, Selma Blair, Christopher Walken, Mia..."

July 27, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Palindromes

Nominally the story of a 13-year-old girl who longs for a baby, Todd Solondz's latest is provocative, wicked, even bleakly funny, and ultimately empty.

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Ellen Barkin, Richard Masur, Debra Monk, Stephen..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Welcome to the Dollhouse

"...Directed by: Todd Solondz. Starring: Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton, Matthew Faber, Eric..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Reeling in '98

The Austin Chronicle Top Nine Films of 1998

"...Skarsgard (Insomnia) BEST DIRECTOR Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter); Todd Solondz (Happiness); Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight) Sam Raimi..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Screens Feature

Scanlines

The Young Poisoner's Handbook

"...Welcome to the Dollhouse D: Todd Solondz; with Heather Matarazzo, Brendan Sexton, Jr., Daria Kalinina,..."

Feb. 7, 1997 Screens Feature

The Movies That Matter

An interview with Killer Films producer Christine Vachon

"...films Far From Heaven, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Todd Solondz's Happiness and Storytelling (see "This Is a Love..."

March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Northern Exposures

Reflections on the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival

"...auteurs at the festival, most of whom didn't disappoint. Todd Solondz picks up where 1998's Happiness left off with..."

Sept. 25, 2009 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Film Previews

September

"...D: Todd Solondz; with Jane Adams, Dylan Baker, Lara Flynn Boyle,..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Screens Feature

Funny Pages

Portrait of the comic artist as a young idiot

"...Adly Guirgis from Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York and Todd Solondz's Palindromes, as Robert's high school art teacher, Mr...."

Aug. 26, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Marjorie Baumgarten’s Top 10 Films of 2016

"...Todd Solondz stays true to his misanthropic vision and reveals..."

Dec. 30, 2016 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Miss March

Two-fifths of the Whitest Kids U'Know comedy troupe wrote, star in, and co-directed this nubile sex romp about a road trip to the Playboy mansion.

"...more could you ask for? Give this idea to Todd Solondz, Jeremy Davies, and Vince Vaughn, and let them..."

March 20, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Che: Part Two

Steven Soderbergh concludes his two-part biopic with Che's Bolivian endgame.

"...Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Terrence Malick, and Todd Solondz … and possibly every director who ever worked..."

Jan. 30, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt

Towelhead

Alan Ball's film is guaranteed to discomfit and dismay with its dangerous plunge into an adolescent girl's discovery of sexuality and self-identity.

"...the film’s sexual predation recalls the discomfiture provoked by Todd Solondz in Happiness, but Towelhead tells the story from..."

Sept. 26, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twelve and Holding

This disturbing but emotionally authentic story about adolescent life treats its subjects with bravery and compassion.

"...the possibility of redemption for his characters, unlike Jerseyite Todd Solondz, whose oddball kids seem doomed to a life..."

June 30, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Miracle of Morgan's Creek

'People aren't as evil-minded as they were when you were a soldier, Papa,' purrs 14-year-old Emmy (Diana Lynn) to her dimly suspicious father (William Demarest), though certainly she must know better

"...like a swamp." Also Out Now Palindromes (Wellspring, $29.98): Todd Solondz's own evil-minded satire on motherhood made a splash..."

Sept. 23, 2005 Screens Review by Spencer Parsons

Page Two

It's time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for our roads

"...Todd Solondz's newest film, Palindromes, is scheduled, as are a..."

Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Napoleon Dynamite

Indie film about teenage dork celebrates the youthful underdog.

"...more jaundiced filmmakers dealing in youth and family themes. (Todd Solondz, I’m looking in your direction.) Fortunately, writer-director Hess..."

June 25, 2004 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Big Fat Liar

"...come from the expert Giamatti (who also stars in Todd Solondz's Storytelling, which opens in Austin this week). As..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

L.I.E.

"...just can't help himself (as is the case in Todd Solondz's black dramedy Happiness). Rather, he's a flawed and..."

Oct. 26, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Page Two

SXSW 2005 looms on the horizon

"...Palindromes (Narrative, directed by Todd Solondz; with Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Richard Masur):..."

Feb. 11, 2005 Column by Louis Black

Long Stories Short

The Cinematexas International Short Film Festival

"...Inside Out: Special Guest Todd Haynes Filmmaker Todd Haynes' most recent film, the Douglas..."

Sept. 12, 2003 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

SXSW Film Conference Adds Christine Vachon, Ryan Gosling

Also added: Amy Schumer, Sally Field, Henry Rollins

"...in the independent film movement, Vachon has collaborated with Todd Haynes on every project from 1991’s Poison on; she..."

Feb. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

DVDanger: Youth Gone Wild

Pre-millenial teen angst, both period and retro, melds with noir

"...middle-American sensibilities. He was name-dropped alongside Harmony Korine and Todd Haynes as a gloriously disruptive influence. Unfortunately, White Bird..."

Jan. 17, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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