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Mar 16, 2024 · Sirk's best films are shot through with symbolism and a hefty dose of irony, using their characters to make broader points about postwar America.
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- Zu neuen Ufern (1937) Sirk’s most interesting film for UFA (the leading German studio of its day used by the Nazis for its propaganda films) is a tale of a woman brought down by the inadequacy of men around her.
- La Habanera (1937) Zarah Leander suffers again in her second film with Sirk, but here her character is much stronger – she plays a Swedish woman who, on holiday in Puerto Rico, runs off the ship to stay in the exotic locale to become the wife of a wealthy landowner.
- Summer Storm (1944) Before this adaptation of Chekhov’s 1884 novel The Shooting Party, Linda Darnell was valued for her beauty rather than her acting ability, but her role here as Olga, a peasant girl who ruins the lives of three men in her quest for wealth and social standing, relaunched her career.
- Shockproof (1949) While a film directed by Sirk and scripted by Sam Fuller (just before he kickstarted his own directing career with the same year’s I Shot Jesse James) should have critics cheering, Shockproof, though a superior noir with excellent performances, isn’t the masterpiece it should be.
- Magnificent Obsession
- All That Heaven Allows
- There’S Always Tomorrow
- Written on The Wind
- A Time to Love and A Time to Die
- Imitation of Life
Magnificent Obsessionmight be a strange entry point into Sirk’s filmography since it is often classified as “lesser Sirk”. However, the film contains many precursors to the masterpieces that Sirk would direct in the years to come. Rock Hudson stars as a careless playboy who requires emergency attention after crashing his speedboat. Unfortunately, t...
One of Sirk’s greatest cinematic achievements, All That Heaven Allows is a quintessential American melodramawhich explores various subjects like class conflicts and societal conventions through the romance between a widow and a younger man. Jane Wyman delivers a fantastic performance as Cary Scott, a wealthy widow who becomes interested in her arbo...
There’s Always Tomorrowtends to be relatively more neglected when it comes to the later re-evaluations of Sirk’s filmography but it is undoubtedly among his finest works. The film revolves around a toy manufacturer who is terribly depressed by the monotonous nature of his life. Stuck in a marriage that is going nowhere, he starts to feel like the m...
Written on the Windis the perfect combination of an engaging story and a visual narrative that is densely packed. Based on Robert Wilder’s eponymous novel, the film chronicles the activities of a Texas oil dynasty that is characterised by its many dysfunctions. Full of excessive wealth, widespread moral corruption, lies, deceit and disastrous conse...
A Douglas Sirk war film with cinematography by Russell Metty, A Time to Love and a Time To Dieis the story of a young German soldier whose conscience is troubled by the brutality he sees all around him during the second World War. Disillusioned by the massacre of innocent civilians and the constant bombing, he tries to find love amidst this all-con...
This was the film that marked Sirk’s exit from Hollywood even though Imitation of Life was a huge commercial success. A remake of a 1930s classic, Sirk’s final American work is a fantastic drama which conducted relevant investigations of racism, gender and class divides. Often cited among the greatest melodramas ever made, Imitation of Life explore...
- Imitation of Life (1959) “Imitation of Life” is a 1959 drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, with a screenplay by Eleanore Griffin and Allan Scott, and based on the novel of the same name by Fannie Hurst.
- All That Heaven Allows (1955) “All That Heaven Allows” is a 1955 American romantic drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson.
- Magnificent Obsession (1954) “Magnificent Obsession” is a 1954 melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. The film tells the story of a reckless playboy named Bob Merrick (played by Hudson) who accidentally causes the death of a beloved doctor.
- Written on the Wind (1956) “Written on the Wind” is a melodrama directed by Douglas Sirk and released in 1956. The film stars Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Dorothy Malone, and Robert Stack, and tells the story of a wealthy Texas oil family whose lives are torn apart by greed, jealousy, and alcoholism.
Apr 26, 2013 · German filmmaker Douglas Sirk (né Hans Detlef Sierck) directed almost 40 films in a career that spanned three decades. A late bloomer known for grand, gorgeously expressive and emotional melodramas in the 1950s, he took a third of his career to hit full stride.
Douglas Sirk was a German-born director active in the 1930s and '50s. Although he dabbled in Westerns, war movies, and comedies, he is most famous for his melodramas, including All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind. These movies were commercially successful but dismissed by reviewers on release.
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Apr 26, 2021 · His penultimate film, A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), is a heartfelt WWII polemic told from a German perspective (still a rarity in American cinema), and one that dramatises the destruction of Sirk’s homeland with an admirably clear-eyed fervour.
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