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 close ...

Luc Haasbroek is a writer and videographer from Durban, South Africa. He has been writing professionally about pop culture for eight years. Luc's areas of interest are broad: he's just as passionate ...

Later this week, the Gene Siskel Film Center presents a new 4K DCP digital screening of Douglas Sirk’s final film, Imitation of Life. Sirk is one of the most influential directors of his era, a master ...

THE director Douglas Sirk has become identified almost exclusively with the lushly produced, emotionally extravagant and flamboyantly hued melodramas he made near the end of his Hollywood career, ...

Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...

The Locarno Film Festival recently announced a complete retro dedicated to Douglas Sirk, 35 years after the death of the director best known for melodramas made in Hollywood in the 1940s and 1950s, ...

The great repertory event in New York this winter is the copious retrospective—not complete but very generous—of the films of Douglas Sirk, at Film Society of Lincoln Center. Sirk’s most ...

This is the last in a series of articles on the recent Sydney Film Festival. [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] “In pictures, the place of language is to be taken by the camera, and by ...

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. From Douglas Sirk to Todd Haynes and points in between, Lincoln Center’s Dennis ...