Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Locarno Film Festival recently announced a complete retro dedicated to Douglas Sirk, 35 years after the death of the director ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before Douglas Sirk burnished his legend in 1950s Hollywood with a series of brilliantly subversive hothouse melodramas, he made a series of films under his real name, Detlef Sierck, for the ...

Todd Haynes comes from a world of semiology and he often uses film language as a metaphor for storytelling in his films. In 2002, Todd wanted to see if he could reach people’s emotions through the ...

My determination to watch all the films of ace melodramatist Douglas Sirk leads me to track down films he didn’t make but almost did. According to Wikipedia, Sirk worked on the pre-production of Never ...

In the recent John Stahl versus Douglas Sirk smackdown at the Anthology Film Archives, which included their respective versions of Magnificent Obsession and Imitation of Life, the only movie I hadn’t ...

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, ...