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Dec. 22, 2020 Screens Post
Paramount Announces Summer Classic Film Series Lineup
See the whole schedule and get some tickets to escape the heat
"...(1957, 88min/b&w, DCP) Kirk Douglas, Ralph Meeker, and Adolphe Menjou. Directed by Stanley Kubrick...."
May 16, 2017 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker
Sink Into Sirk This May
Alamo screens "Majestic Tears: The Melodramas of Douglas Sirk"
"...Need a li'l push? Why not sink into some Sirk?..."
May 1, 2017 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Nocturnal Animals
A dark meditation on regret and revenge
"...touchstone but this time adds more than a little Douglas Sirk...."
Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Steve Davis' Top 10 Films of 2015
"...falling in love in the sexually repressed Fifties channels Douglas Sirk...."
Jan. 1, 2016 Screens Feature by Steve Davis
An Actress Plays Herself in the Role of a Lifetime
AFS Doc Nights: Actress
"...I started to think of the film as a Douglas Sirk-like observational documentary. There's a lot of contradiction in..."
Feb. 6, 2015 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis
Summer Fun: Some Like It Hot Cold & Dreary
Counterprogramming Gidget: 11 icy, downer movies
"...Your Kids Are Assholes). In this storied tearjerker by Douglas Sirk (reimagined by Todd Haynes in 2002’s Far From..."
May 19, 2014 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones
Chico & Rita
The music, scored by Cuban pianist Bebo Valdés, is the real star of this animated movie.
"...is the stuff of an old-school Hollywood sudser – Douglas Sirk would’ve had a field day with all the..."
March 2, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Love & Other Drugs
A pharmaceutical salesman with devastating charm and a woman who has no interest in settling down learn that love is the best drug of all.
"...have made a fine melodrama in the vein of Douglas Sirk's Magnificent Obsession (which the film obliquely recalls) –..."
Dec. 3, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop
Surprisingly, Zhang Yimou's Chinese remake of the Coen brothers' debut film, Blood Simple, winds up something of a limp noodle.
"...out Ju Dou and pretend you are watching a Douglas Sirk movie if you want a better example of..."
Sept. 24, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Broken Embraces
Penélope Cruz stars in Pedro Almodóvar's latest, which plays like the lost love child of Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock.
"...though Broken Embraces might be the love child of Douglas Sirk and Alfred Hitchcock, with its dramatic broad strokes,..."
Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Making 'Room' in the Cult Canon
Tommy Wiseau's so-bad-it's-sublime debut feature
"...sex sequences – gives The Room the aura of Douglas Sirk meets early John Waters. There's also more than..."
May 1, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
SXSW Film
Reviews and interviews
"...anything-goes aesthetics, the young Kuchars initially gorged themselves on Douglas Sirk's candy-colored melodramas and looked as though they stepped..."
March 20, 2009 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Tyler Perry's Madea Goes to Jail
Just what's needed in the big house – Perry's pistol-packing granny.
"...a “muddled composition”: cubism and romanticism, Archie Bunker and Douglas Sirk, American cheese and wine tastings. Lucky for Perry,..."
Feb. 27, 2009 Movie Review by Josh Rosenblatt
Magnificent Obsession
This is the film that heralded Sirk's astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women's pictures
"...and a crisper soundtrack, but filmmaker Allison Anders – a Douglas Sirk fanatic and contributor to this Criterion Collection two-disc..."
Feb. 6, 2009 Screens Review by Kimberley Jones
After a Fashion
Your Style Avatar: He's hot. He's sexy. And he's not dead.
"...bed jackets, parties, ashtrays. ... It sounds like a Douglas Sirk movie and certainly has felt like one. So..."
Oct. 24, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Ghosts Are Good Company
AFS Essential Series: The Third Wave: Contemporary German Cinema
"...Lorre were nearly as famous as Norma Shearer and Douglas Fairbanks, and studios rose and fell throughout the country..."
Sept. 5, 2008 Screens Feature by Josh Rosenblatt
After a Fashion
Keep in mind that Stephen's views on death and dying are filtered through his D&Gs
"...I want a full-blown extravaganza like the end of Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life, in which my funeral cortege,..."
Feb. 1, 2008 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
I'm Not There
This meditation on Bob Dylan is infused with love – not the slavish kind but a true-eyed tribute to the artist who belongs to nobody and everybody at once.
"...tea. After the Oscar “legitimacy” of his ode to Douglas Sirk, Far From Heaven, Haynes could’ve burrowed deeper underground..."
Nov. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls
Despite the fact that Tyler Perry relies on contrivances and sentimentality, he manages to spin a good yarn in the process.
"...I say?) a surprising mix of Frank Capra and Douglas Sirk. When Monty’s boss (the compelling Gossett Jr.) launches..."
Feb. 23, 2007 Movie Review by Toddy Burton
Desk Set
Its inaugural class – equipped with cameras, computers, and expert instruction – wades into a sea of possibility
"...color that wouldn't look out of place in a Douglas Sirk film...."
Dec. 8, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov
Leave Her to Heaven: Iconically Gene Tierney
"...(It's a Wonderful Life), and late-life bitchy direction by Douglas Sirk precursor John M. Stahl. Tierney's poisonous turn in..."
Oct. 6, 2006 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez
The Notorious Bettie Page
Gretchen Mol dazzles as the titular pinup girl, but the film raises many more questions about the enigmatic icon than it answers.
"...the most gorgeously supersaturated color stock this side of Douglas Sirk). But like Page herself, the film leaves you..."
April 21, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Don't Hate It Because It's Beautiful
Arnand Tucker and Jason Schwartzman talk 'Shopgirl'
"...films of the past such as those directed by Douglas Sirk, and in particular Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's..."
Nov. 4, 2005 Screens Feature by Joe O'Connell
Written on the Wind
A Douglas Sirk tour de force, 'Written on the Wind'
explores the director's typical fascination with
interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail-
hat production oozing with Technicolor angst
"...Criterion, $29.95 A Douglas Sirk tour de force, Written on the Wind explores..."
March 18, 2005 Screens Review by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Land of Plenty Time
The fifth annual Texas Film Hall of Fame Awards
"...Who imagined back when she was being directed by Douglas Sirk in Written on the Wind that 50 years..."
March 11, 2005 Screens Feature by Margaret Moser
Bewafaa
Bollywood romance glosses over the cultural ramifications of marriage and adultery, but is heavy on the music and melodramatics.
"...tired and shopworn melodramatics. It’s enough to make even Douglas Sirk think seriously about dialing down the schmaltz. As..."
March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Page Two
It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin
"...Bacall, accepting the honors for Written on the Wind, Douglas Sirk's masterpiece about Texas families and Texas oil..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Louis Black
After a Fashion
Get ready for SXSW! Stephen is!
"...– omigod, Lauren Bacall will be attending to induct Douglas Sirk's dazzling potboiler Written on the Wind into the..."
Feb. 25, 2005 Column by Stephen MacMillan Moser
Page Two
It's time to celebrate the coming of South by
Southwest and think about how we're going to pay for
our roads
"...George Lopez; Dennis Quaid; and Lauren Bacall, accepting for Douglas Sirk's masterpiece Written on the Wind. The emcee is..."
Feb. 4, 2005 Column by Louis Black
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