Poison
Poison
New 35mm print!
Todd Haynes, 1991
Contemporary Screen
Area and regional premieres, films fresh from the international film festival circuit, award-winners and recent audience favorites.... You'll find films you won't see anywhere else in central Ohio on the Contemporary Screen schedule.
See Todd Haynes's controversial masterpiece, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, in a new print released for its 20th anniversary.
Director Haynes has gone on to create Oscar nominees Far From Heaven and I'm Not There and the much-hyped HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce. This second thrillingly cinematic feature was among the most fervently debated films of the 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. Inspired by the writings of Jean Genet, Poison audaciously interweaves a trio of transgressive tales that range in tone from that of a mock TV documentary to that of a delirious 1950s' sci-fi melodrama. (85 mins., 35mm)
Admission
$5 members
$5 senior citizens
$5 students
$7 general public
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