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Douglas Sirk
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Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987) was a German-born film director most well known for his work in Hollywood in the 1950s. April 26 is the 116th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (117th in leap years). ... 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... January 14 is the 14th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The film director, on the right, gives last minute direction to the cast and crew, whilst filming a costume drama on location in London. ... ... Millennia: 1st millennium - 2nd millennium - 3rd millennium Events and trends The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-type consumer society built on credit and boom-times, as well as the...
Hans Detlef Sierck was born in Hamburg, Germany and spread his education over three universities. He started his career in 1922 in the theatre of the Weimar Republic, including the direction of an early production of The Threepenny Opera. He joined UFA (Universum Film AG) in 1934, but left Germany in 1937. On arrival in the United States, he soon changed his Germanic name. By 1942 he was in Hollywood, directing the stridently anti-Nazi Hitler's Madman. Position of Hamburg in Germany Hamburgs central broadway Jungfernstieg at the Alster lake, between 1900 and 1914 This article is about the city in Germany. ...
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The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) was a revolutionary piece of musical theatre written by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht in collaboration with the composer Kurt Weill in 1928. ...
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He made his name with a series of lush, colorful, formulaic melodramas for Universal-International Pictures from 1952 to 1958: Magnificent Obsession, All That Heaven Allows (preserved by the US National Film Registry), Written on the Wind, and Imitation of Life. But it was at the pinnacle of his high-profile accomplishments as Universal's most successful director that he left the United States and filmmaking. He died in Lugano, Switzerland nearly thirty years later, with only a brief and obscure return behind the camera in Germany in the 1970s. Universal Studios logo This article is about the Universal Studios movie studio and Universal Hollywood theme park. ...
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Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. ...
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 drama and May_September romance in which a well_to_do widow (Jane Wyman), living in a small town, decides to marry a handsome younger man (Rock Hudson) who owns a small landscaping business. ...
The National Film Registry is the registry of films selected by the United States National Film Preservation Board for preservation in the Library of Congress. ...
Imitation of Life is the title of a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst, which was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a black-and-white film in 1934, and a color remake in 1959. ...
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His original reputation was of a competent creator of light-weight nonsense, but his work was re-examined after praise by British critics, writers of the French New Wave and the opinions of directors such as Rainer Fassbinder and, later on, Quentin Tarantino and Todd Haynes. His work is currently considered to show excellent control of the visuals, extending from lighting and framing to costumes and sets that are saturated with symbolism and shot through with subtle barbs of irony. The New Wave (French: Nouvelle vague) of French cinema was a cinematic movement of the 1960s. ...
Fassbinder 1977 Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31, 1945 - June 10, 1982), German movie director and actor, was one of the most important representatives of the New German Cinema. ...
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Maverick, onetime New Queer Cinema director Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961, Encino, California, USA) has had a controversial, if short, career. ...
Partial filmography
- April, April! (1935)
- Das Mädchen vom Moorhof (1935)
- Schlußakkord (1936), the "Best Musical" at the Venice Film Festival
- La Habanera (1937)
- Boefje (1939), which earned a Palme d'Or nomination
- Hitler's Madman (1943)
- A Scandal in Paris (1946)
- Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
- All I Desire (1953)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- All That Heaven Allows (1955)
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- Interlude (1957)
- Battle Hymn (1957)
- The Tarnished Angels (1958)
- Imitation of Life (1959), his last American film
- Sprich zur mir wie der Regen (1975)
The art of singing and dancing in a prepared fictional play has been a time-honored tradition ranging to the early days of civilization. ... The Venice Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale dArte Cinematografica) takes place every year in late August/early September on the Lido di Venezia in the historic Palazzo del Cinema on the Lungomare Marconi, in Venice, Italy. ... The palace in which the festival takes place. ... Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas. ... All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 drama and May_September romance in which a well_to_do widow (Jane Wyman), living in a small town, decides to marry a handsome younger man (Rock Hudson) who owns a small landscaping business. ... Written on the Wind is a 1956 film with Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone. ... Imitation of Life is the title of a popular 1933 novel by Fannie Hurst, which was adapted into two successful films for Universal Pictures: a black-and-white film in 1934, and a color remake in 1959. ...
See also
- Far from Heaven directed by Todd Haynes
Far from Heaven is a 2002 film which tells the story of a 1950s housewife who finds her husband kissing another man, and develops her own relationship with an African American man. ... Maverick, onetime New Queer Cinema director Todd Haynes (born January 2, 1961, Encino, California, USA) has had a controversial, if short, career. ...
