#Anne Giotta

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Poison | Todd Haynes | 1991

Edith Meeks, Angela M. Schreiber, Anne Giotta, Barry Cassidy, Buck Smith, Marina Lutz, Millie White, Richard Anthony, Rob LaBelle, Lydia Lafleur, Evan Dunsky

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Poison (Todd Haynes, 1991)

Cast: Edith Meeks, Millie White, Buck Smith, Anne Giotta, Larry Maxwell, Susan Norman, Scott Renderer, James Lyons, John R. Lombardi. Screenplay: Todd Haynes, based on novels by Jean Genet. Cinematography: Maryse Alberti. Production design: Sarah Stollman. Film editing: Todd Haynes, James Lyons. Music: James Bennett. 

Parody is often the sincerest form of appreciation, especially in the sections of Poison  labeled (in the end credits) “Hero” and “Horror.” The former takes on the true-crime documentary to tell the story of a boy who kills his father and then disappears; the latter smartly adopts the look and feel of old black-and-white horror movies in its account of a scientist's experiment gone awry. The third segment, “Homo,” is less parodic in nature, although it draws elements from prison movies to tell its story of an inmate's obsession with another man whom he had known in a previous incarceration. If you're used to the finesse Todd Haynes brings to his later films with big budgets and major stars, such as Far From Heaven (2002) and Carol (2015), the roughness of Poison may be a shock. But it's still a compelling and often disturbing movie. 

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The New York Times interviewed PMIC Founder Anne McBrearty Giotta today. Good on Ye, Ma! You've got a hell of a story to tell! They'd run out of ink before they got halfway to today. And to think, we've only just begun. My mother, my muse, my boss, my most cherished and beloved advisor: Congratulations!