Imitation of Life
1959
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Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films.
Douglas Sirk. Director: The Final Chord. Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist.
Apr 22, 2024 · Douglas Sirk, German-born American film director whose extremely popular melodramas offered cynical visions of American values. His best-known films included Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), and Imitation of Life (1959).
Mar 16, 2024 · 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...
Apr 26, 2016 · Douglas Sirk is so synonymous with 1950s melodrama that it is easy to forget that he made dozens of films across Germany, the Netherlands and the US before his brilliant run of so-called ‘women’s pictures’, from All I Desire (1953) to Imitation of Life (1959).
Apr 26, 2021 · Although Sirk had been refining his singular approach to melodrama for decades, he solidified his trademark combination of knowing hyperrealism and earnest emotionality with Magnificent Obsession (1954), which also cemented his distinctive, full-bodied Technicolor palette.
Dec 21, 2015 · Douglas Sirk, whose Hollywood career ran from 1943 to 1959, may be the most intellectual filmmaker ever to work in Hollywood (at least, he’d run Terrence Malick, who translated Heidegger, a ...
Apr 5, 2017 · The European filmmaker Douglas Sirk directed a series of deceptively complex melodramas in the 1950s, such as 'All That Heaven Allows.'
Dec 10, 2015 · A decade into his Hollywood career, the German émigré director Douglas Sirk—the subject of a rarity-filled retrospective at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Dec. 23-Jan. 6—became a master...
Feb 11, 2013 · A philosophical travelogue, an allegorical romance, a grandly symphonic visual realization of cultural history—“Interlude” is one of Sirk’s densest and wildest films, which dramatic action ...
