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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...
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  • pandemic safety precautions. Pearl drew inspiration from the works of Douglas Sirk, Technicolor films like The Wizard of Oz (1939) and Mary Poppins (1964)...
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  • Magnificent Obsession (1954 film) (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    Magnificent Obsession is a 1954 American romantic drama film directed by Douglas Sirk starring Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson. It is a remake of the 1935 film...
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    Imitation of Life (1959 film) (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    American drama film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter and released by Universal International. It was Sirk's final Hollywood film and dealt...
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    All That Heaven Allows (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a novel by...
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  • perfect life begin to fall apart. Haynes pays homage to the films of Douglas Sirk (especially 1955's All That Heaven Allows, 1956's Written on the Wind...
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    female lead in Written on the Wind (1956) which is considered one of Douglas Sirk's seminal films. She later acted in Harper (1966), Murder on the Orient...
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    Written on the Wind (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    the Wind is a 1956 American Southern Gothic melodrama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Lauren Bacall, Robert Stack, and Dorothy Malone...
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    The Tarnished Angels (category Films directed by Douglas Sirk)
    is a 1957 black-and-white American CinemaScope drama film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring Rock Hudson, Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone, Jack Carson,...
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  • 2023-01-26. O'Connor, Rory (2022-08-31). "Todd Haynes on the Genius of Douglas Sirk and Collaborating with Kelly Reichardt". Retrieved 2023-03-15. "Hernan...
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    with Far from Heaven (2002), a 1950s-set drama inspired by the films of Douglas Sirk about a Connecticut housewife Cathy Whittaker (Julianne Moore) who discovers...
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  • Look up sirk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Sirk may refer to: Sirk, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, a village in Iran Sirk, Isfahan, a village in Kuhpayeh...
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    Hitchcock, Jean-Luc Godard, Nagisa Oshima, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Douglas Sirk. For the 2012 Sight & Sound directors' poll, Guadagnino listed, The Blue...
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  • in melodrama arose from a 1970s critical reappraisal of the work of Douglas Sirk, and the term evolved into a "broad category of cinema, one that often...
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  • melodramatic genre of women's pictures, particularly those directed by Douglas Sirk, whose work directly influenced this film. The film is also a satire...
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    was the lead in A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958), directed by Douglas Sirk from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. His casting drew comparisons...
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  • Seidl will no longer receive Douglas Sirk award from Filmfest Hamburg". Screen Daily. Retrieved 14 September 2022. "Douglas Sirk Award 2022" (Press release)...
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    edited eight books, including a long interview with the U.S. film-maker Douglas Sirk. In addition, he and his wife, Jung Chang, with whom he lives in Notting...
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    Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952), the first of his films directed by Douglas Sirk. In Horizons West (1952) Hudson supported Robert Ryan, but he was star...
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    2011)". The New York Times. 4 December 2011. Retrieved 14 March 2024. "Douglas Sirk Award • FILMFEST HAMBURG". FILMFEST HAMBURG. Retrieved 14 March 2024...
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    charming or corrupt businessman. One of his best known roles was in the Douglas Sirk film Magnificent Obsession (1954). Kruger played the supporting role...
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    DVD, Morris recalls that he showed Gates of Heaven to Douglas Sirk at the Berlin Film Festival. Sirk warned Morris that "There's a danger that somebody might...
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    within film culture and film industry. It receives its name from director Douglas Sirk, born in Hamburg as Detlef Sierck. 1995: Clint Eastwood 1996: Stephen...
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  • film is a loose remake of the 1957 American film Interlude directed by Douglas Sirk. It was Maskell's final film as she died in January 1968, five months...
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    biographical film Rhapsody in Blue (1945) as well as the talent agent in the Douglas Sirk classic Imitation of Life (1959). On Broadway, he originated the role...
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  • screwball comedies of the late 1930s and the 1950s work of directors such as Douglas Sirk, Vincente Minnelli, and Alfred Hitchcock, 8 Women blends farce, melodrama...
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    Stack was then given a role in Written on the Wind (1956), directed by Douglas Sirk and produced by Albert Zugsmith. Stack played another pilot, the son...
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    International Filmfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg. In 1999, he was laureate of the Douglas Sirk Preis at Filmfest Hamburg, Germany. In 1984, he won the Caméra d'Or at...
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    re-released in 1936. A 1959 remake of the same title was directed by Douglas Sirk. In 2005, Imitation of Life was selected for preservation in the United...
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    while with the Army, when he was spotted by American film director Douglas Sirk. Sirk offered him in a small role in a film, A Time to Love and a Time to...
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