Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival, Todd Haynes’ controversial masterpiece Poison is returning to movie screens for a 20th Anniversary re-release in a new 35mm print.

The second feature directed by Haynes—the Oscar-nominated filmmaker of Far from Heaven, I’m Not There and the upcoming HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce—this groundbreaking American Indie was the most fervently debated film of the 1990s and a trailblazing landmark of queer cinema. A work of immense visual invention, and a runaway hit which made national headlines when it was attacked by right-wing figures including Dick Armey, Ralph Reed and minister Donald Wildmon, Poison is audacious, disturbing and thrillingly cinematic.

The re-release of Poison will open at the IFC Center in New York on November 10, 2010, before playing around the country.

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