Director/Actor Best Film #5: Haynes & Moore

Ditto.

Far From Heaven is their finest hour together.

I'm Not There. is by far their best collaboration (and Moore has almost nothing to do with why).

Safe

One of the very few modern films made within its own era that is actually ABOUT its own era.......in fact you may not have known this was "in" the culture until seeing this movie at all.........usually Haynes is concerned with examining the past through a lense of safe presentism - and that's fine - but here he's really out on a limb and so is magnificent star who has nothing to hold on to except the limits of her imagination.........there is no safety of genre trappings - no melodrama or otherwise.

It is also - arguably a horror film, though rarely discussed as such and without explicit horror topes.......I never heard him talk about it but I bet David Cronenberg loves it.........

Ghastly, pale, zombie-like..........

Yep, it is.