Tag: Douglas Sirk

Written on the Wind (1956) | Criterion Collection Blu-ray Review

Despite having directed several dozen films across a career which ranged from 1930s Germany to late 1950s Hollywood, Douglas Sirk is best remembered for...

Lighted Fools of Yesterday: The Grass Isn’t Always Greener in Sirk’s Neglected Drama “There’s Always Tomorrow” | Blu-ray Review

When one ponders the filmography of Douglas Sirk, one languishes in his successful meditation on stifled American lives in his 1950s soapy melodramas, the...

Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II | Blu-ray Review

Kino Lorber unleashes their second volume of forgotten film noir classics with Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema II which includes three distinctly...

Malone’s the Angel in the Centerfold of Sirk’s High-Flying The Tarnished Angels (1957) | Blu-ray Review

There remains a dearth of unappreciated titles from German émigré Douglas Sirk’s lengthy filmography, which basically includes anything outside of his seminal Hollywood melodramas...

IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Emma Forrest’s Top Ten Films of All Time List

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...

Criterion Collection: All that Heaven Allows | Blu-ray Review

As Laura Mulvey’s essay, “An Articulate Screen” contends, 1955’s All That Heaven Allows was “just another critically unnoticed Hollywood genre product,” the attempt for...

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