Douglas Sirk Explained - Creating The Self-Aware Melodrama
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- čas přidán 11. 09. 2024
- Douglas Sirk Explained in 3 minutes!
This video should be enough to get you started for an essay about Douglas Sirk, and hopefully it will encourage you to check out some of his other films!
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the clips from Douglas Sirk's Films.
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Douglas Sirk one of the underrated filmmakers of the Golden Age of Hollywood, Pedro Almodovar is a huge fan of Sirk films.
As well as Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
@@elizabethj8510 Same with Todd Hynes.
“I have seen `Written on the Wind' a thousand times and I cannot wait to see it again.”
-Pedro Almodovar
I watched written in the wind recently, some of it had me in stitches but at the same time I found the sets and colour and cinematography beautiful. In a weird way I think combined with all the impressive technical the bizzare plot and bad acting (or at least bad to me) was more valuable to the film then a good script or performance. It was such a surreal experience, like watching an unironic lynch film
Sirk movies are so wonderful. Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are my favorites.
fabulous job, i've been hearing the name Sirk, now i know! it's great when long lost auteurs are found. it's quite fascinating what may be his critique of the 50s, the beginning in the modern domestic world in most ways. ty !
Nice video. Just watched magnificent obsession and decided to see if i could find any videos on Sirk
Great movie!
oh, but don't skip over Imitation of Life!
Contact Jim Kitses, my film history teacher in the 1990's at SFSU. ( he was a friend of the screenwriter for the guy whose name escapes me at the moment, I think it's Paul Schrader, the guy who wrote, most memorably, "Taxi Driver", and Travis Bickel as a character terrified me because of the terror we were unnerved by.....
thank you
i’m very intrigued to watch these films now
Glad you liked the video! Give them a watch, they’re great!
thanks for the video!!
Sirk fans should look for the movie What Q Way To Go! A box office failure in the mid-1960's, it consisted of a series of sections that parodied then-current movie styles. Hilarious in Hollywood, no doubt, but puzzling to the average moviegoer. That said, one section, "Imitation of Mink," was a perfect Sirk mini-movie.
All That Heavens Allows is the opposite of ironic. Everything about it is beautiful and true, and isn't it so true to the reality that people tend to live dull conformist lives when they could be happy if they just chose to "be a man"? Not a movie that makes fun of itself, no way.
Nice vid man. It's nice not to have the revisionist feminist take on it.