Being unlikeable: the failure and optimism of Todd Solondz

Screen ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-332
Author(s):  
Anna Breckon
Keyword(s):  
Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian Murphet
Keyword(s):  
Todd Solondz

An Interview with Todd Solondz

Todd Solondz ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 139-162
Author(s):  
Julian Murphet
Keyword(s):  
Todd Solondz

This chapter is a transcript of an interview with Todd Solondz. It mainly discusses his filmography and his career as well as his personal thoughts on the art of cinema. A major running theme throughout this interview is the consistency inherent in his work. The topography, character, and temporality of his films articulate a singular, if not always totally consistent world. The chapter delves into why that is and how Solondz approaches his work to achieve—whether deliberately or otherwise—such effects in his films. In the end, Solondz states that his engagement with his audience is one of invalidation, in other words, to encourage his audience “to question, to analyze, to open up.”

Sentiment and the ‘Smart’ Melodrama

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles Burnetts
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
The Self ◽  
Ethical Subjectivity ◽  
Art Film ◽  
Film Genres ◽  
Todd Solondz

Examines the ‘camp’ sensibility of two contemporary art-films, Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000) and Todd Solondz’ Palindromes (2004), focusing in particular on their respective treatments of melodrama as a genre attuned to the experience and suffering of women in US society. Meditating on the problem of gender and childhood in pastoral America, the analysis seeks to explore the negotiation of sentimentalist conventions borrowed from traditional film genres like the musical and the ‘maternal melodrama’, focusing in particular on issues of ‘play’ and camp performance. The discussion thus raises problems introduced in earlier chapters with regards to the self-reflexive bracketing of sentimentality as a discourse of sincerity and ethical subjectivity, emphasising its ambiguous presence in the art-film as a mode of fantasy and self-reflexive mythologizing.

scholarly journals Realismeformer i Todd Solondz' Happiness og Paul Thomas Andersons Magnolia

2002 ◽  
Vol 30 (93) ◽  
pp. 72-96
Author(s):  
Anne Jerslev
Keyword(s):  
Todd Solondz

Realismeformer i Todd Solondz' Happiness og Paul Thomas Andersons Magnolia

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