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Blowing the Whistle on Corporate Crime: An Interview with Todd Haynes
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Cinéaste (New York, N.Y.), 2020-03, Vol.45 (2), p.4-7
Ort / Verlag
New York: Cineaste Publishers, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
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Alma/SFX Local Collection
Beschreibungen/Notizen
A small contingent of critics surmised that Haynes, best known as the formally innovative director responsible for queer cinema landmarks such as Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Far from Heaven, had capitulated to aesthetic conservatism by helming a relatively conventional thriller. Bilott, who started out representing corporate clients at the Cincinnati office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister, a storied law firm founded in 1885, is the sort of protagonist that journalists love to label an "unlikely hero. [...]Jeffrey Wiganďs wife, played by Diane Venora in The Insider, conforms to the same template, even though, unlike Sarah, she becomes exasperated with her partner's obsessiveness and eventually leaves him. On the last page of his 2019 memoir, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle Against DuPont, he mentions filing a 2018 "class action against eight chemical companies on behalf of the..