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Todd Solondz

September 2024

  • ‘He’s a monster’ … Dylan Baker, right, and Justin Elvin in the 1998 film.

    How we made
    ‘It would not get made today’: Todd Solondz on his shocking paedophile film Happiness

    ‘It’s about a guy who has this horrible private obsession but doesn’t accept he’s hurting anyone. He feels he’s a good father, a good family man, and that this other life is his alone. Sadly, I don’t think that’s rare’

August 2024

  • The film’s style is heightened – or rather magnified, as if seen through its protagonist’s big, plastic-rimmed frames.

    Stream team
    Welcome to the Dollhouse: Todd Solondz’s surprisingly tender tale of schoolyard misfits

    The director’s prickly oeuvre and caustic wit has seen him labelled a misanthrope – but this 1995 breakout proves he’s far sweeter than meets the eye

October 2018

  • Todd Solondz

    Todd Solondz: 'I have weak moral fibre. I wish I were stronger'

    His films tackled paedophilia, abortion and deadly dachshunds. In his debut play, the barbed laureate of US cinema explores the race and class dynamics of childcare. But his own nanny isn’t invited

August 2016

  • ‘My mother definitely had reservations’ … Heather Matarazzo in Welcome to the Dollhouse

    How we made
    How we made Welcome to the Dollhouse

    Todd Solondz: ‘The second day on set, Dawn had to kiss her tormentor. It was Heather’s first kiss’
  • Danny DeVito in Wiener-Dog

    Wiener-Dog review: depression, death… and a dachshund

    Director Todd Solondz finds an unusual way to link trademark tales of disease and disappointment, with good performances but mixed results

    • Peter Bradshaw's film of the week
      Wiener-Dog review – Todd Solondz finds something to feel good about in pet project

    • Wiener-Dog: has Todd Solondz taken his screen misanthropy too far?

    • The best original photographs from the Observer
      Original Observer photography: July 2016

July 2016

  • Danny DeVito.

    Danny DeVito: ‘Do all you can to make sure Donald Trump doesn’t become president’

  • Todd Solondz photographed last month by Suki Dhanda for the Observer New Review.

    Todd Solondz: ‘There may be a line I shouldn’t cross – I don’t know where it is’

January 2016

  • Dawn Wiener is back

    First look review
    Wiener-Dog review – Gerwig, Delpy and DeVito, united by a dachshund, divided by Solondz

    An adorable mutt is at the heart of Todd Solondz’s deeply disturbing portmanteau comedy, starring Ellen Burstyn, Danny DeVito, Julie Delpy – and Greta Gerwig as the grown-up heroine of Welcome to the Dollhouse

October 2014

  • Welcome to the Dollhouse Todd Solondz

    Todd Solondz plans to revisit Welcome to the Dollhouse with Greta Gerwig

    The director is planning Wiener Dog, an ensemble film with one strand featuring Dawn Wiener, last seen entering teenagerhood in his breakthrough movie Welcome to the Dollhouse

July 2012

  • Dark Horse: Selma Blair, Jordan Gelber

    Dark Horse – review

    A thirtysomething romance under the parental roof is fertile territory for Todd Solondz's bitter, funny eye, writes Jason Solomons

June 2012

  • Reel review
    Dark Horse - video review

  • The Guardian film show
    The Guardian Film Show: The Amazing Spider-Man and Friends with Kids star Jon Hamm - video

  • Jordan Gelber in Dark Horse

    Dark Horse – review

  • Todd Solondz, Self Assignment, September 2011

    Portrait of the artist
    Portrait of the artist: Todd Solondz, film director

September 2011

  • Monica Bellucci at the 68th Venice film festival

    The Guardian Film Show
    Film Weekly podcast: Venice film festival, week two

  • Dark Horse

    First look review
    Dark Horse – review

April 2010

  • Life During Wartime

    Life During Wartime

    Todd Solondz revisits Happiness, with mixed results, writes Philip French

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