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Hollywood Flashback: Todd Haynes' 'Poison' Took Top Honors at Sundance 30 Years Ago

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In 1991, Sundance took place at the height of the AIDS epidemic, which, unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, was propelled by a disease that is sexually transmitted and was predominantly killing gay men. (By year's end, the U.S.

death toll would reach 29,850, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.) Amid that politically charged public health catastrophe, a 30-year-old filmmaker debuted his first feature, Poison.

Todd Haynes — who had become an underground sensation with his 1987 short, Superstar, a retelling of the life and death of Karen Carpenter using Barbie dolls — drew from the writings of French novelist Jean Genet for the experimental Poison, a triptych of interwoven stories that explored themes of disease, deviance.

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