Todd Haynes on Growing Up and Going ‘Wonderstruck’ | The Big Picture (Ep. 30)

Wonderstruck 2017

His new film, adapted from Brian Selznick's novel: two deaf kids, one in the 1920s and one in the 1970s, both searching New York for a lost parent.

Hugo 2011

Scorsese's earlier Selznick adaptation — the reason costume designer Sandy Powell thought of Haynes for this one.

Safe 1995

Far From Heaven 2002

I'm Not There 2007

His Bob Dylan portrait.

Carol 2015

His favorite of his own films, and the one he says has since built a real fan cult.

Dottie Gets Spanked 1993

His 1993 short, told from a seven-year-old's point of view — the closest he'd come to a kids' film before this one.

Romeo and Juliet 1968

The Zeffirelli version. Haynes saw it at seven, a bit young for it, and made his own Super 8 version at nine, playing multiple parts.

Oliver! 1968

The one his friends all saw first, before some of them graduated to Romeo and Juliet.

The Miracle Worker 1962

The Helen Keller story he got into at 12 — the same age as the kids in Wonderstruck.

Poison 1991

His first feature, drawing on Jean Genet.

Velvet Goldmine 1998

His glam-rock film, which he calls a tribute to fandom's own creativity.

Mildred Pierce 1945

The Michael Curtiz/Joan Crawford version — Haynes read James M. Cain's novel and found it different enough to adapt himself.

Pete's Dragon 2016

The film that led Haynes to his Ben, the hearing kid cast to play a boy who goes deaf.

Vertigo 1958

Still his No. 1 Hitchcock, though he says it's close.

Sabotage 1936

A Hitchcock he'd underrated until revisiting it.

Dial M for Murder 1954

Another one he says he'd wrongly written off as minor Hitchcock.