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Douglas Sirk’s ‘Written on the Wind’ Blows Away 1950s-Era Conventions

Douglas Sirk’s ‘Written on the Wind’ Blows Away 1950s-Era Conventions

Douglas Sirk’s excellent and subversive drama, Written on the Wind, shows a rich family coming unglued, ungripped, unzipped.

Douglas Sirk’s Oppressive and Beautiful Worlds

Douglas Sirk’s Oppressive and Beautiful Worlds

That today’s viewers can’t easily fall into the fantasy of Rock Hudson as an “Indian” distances and underlines the themes that make a Douglas Sirk rampantly phony film.

10 Classic Films Making Restored Blu-ray Debuts in 2019

10 Classic Films Making Restored Blu-ray Debuts in 2019

But the tip of the Blu iceberg, these classic films never before available in such spectacular shape comprise these 10 recommended Blu-rays.

The World Is Phony, the Pain Isn’t: Douglas Sirk’s ‘The Tarnished Angels’

The 100 Essential Directors Part 8: Jean Renoir to Douglas Sirk

The Non-Tragic Mulatto in ‘Imitation of Life’

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