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	Essays \| Douglas Sirk - Part 1
		Sirk was either born in Denmark or in Germany to Danish parents in 1900 and christened Claus Detlev Sirk.
		Sirk stages a brilliant scene in the film where Finsbury is attending a fancy party thrown by the royal governor in honor of Finsbury’s engagement to his daughter.
		Sirk’s camera darts from inside the governors mansion and out, the line of demarcation a set of windows and doors that alter our perspective, the relationship between the watching Gloria and the watched Finsbury, and the emotional temperature of the scene.
	www.henrysheehan.com /essays/stuv/sirk-1.html (1971 words)

	Encyclopedia: Douglas Sirk
		Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1897 â“ 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).
		Magnificent Obsession is a 1929 novel by Lloyd C. Douglas.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Douglas-Sirk (1109 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on All That Heaven Allows at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Born Detlef Sierck, Douglas Sirk had a successful career in German theatre before he was forced to leave the country in 1937.
		But what Sirk found in America was a form of cultural and artistic repression that of course paled in comparison to what was going on in Germany, but which forced the director to hide his politics and style within genre pictures.
		Sirk uses the camera to show how tightly Cary is wedged into the trappings of her home life.
	www.epinions.com /content_80378236548 (1940 words)

	DVD REVIEW (R0) All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk, Rock Hudson, Criterion) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sirk was able to see elements in these stories that would underline the fascination with characters and detail photography would provide, an illusion on the screen suggested by deep colors.
		Claus Detlev Sirk was born in Denmark, yet studied and worked most of the time of his early life in Germany.
		It was his talent to create good quality out of even ridiculous plots and with it make his actors shine as he painted them in suggestive colors that laid out them mood of the characters or their surrounding world.
	www.dvdscan.com /allthatheaven.htm (652 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Screens: Sirkus Maximus
		It is not enough to say that Sirk was Hollywood's most successful director of melodramas, a type of filmmaking also known as "women's pictures" or "weepies." Nor is it sufficient to say that he was a film virtuoso whose artistry was overlooked in his own time.
		Sirk was a unique film stylist, whose impeccably directed movies used the often ludicrous structure of the bourgeois melodrama to offer biting critiques of American society.
		Dichotomies and their consequences on the individual and society are all present here -- the conflict between a woman's desires and culture's expectations, the divided self, and the materialization of emotions through the use of props, windows, screens, and staging.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2000-05-12/screens_feature.html (1143 words)

	Douglas Sirk
		The Sirk that emerges from the interview is a sophisticated intellectual, a filmmaker who arrived in Hollywood with a very clear vision, leaving behind him an established career in German theatre and film.
		Sirk was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1900, in Hamburg (15).
		Much of my research on Sirk and his work was done during the second half of the 1970s and belated thanks are due to Robert E. Smith and John Belton in New York, and the National Film Archive in London for their assistance.
	www.sensesofcinema.com /contents/directors/04/sirk.html (3202 words)

	Images - Douglas Sirk: All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind
		Sirk’s American melodramas were adored by audiences of the time and made reams of money for Universal, where he was a contract director.
		Such scenes suggest that Sirk isn’t so much undermining the material as presenting her dilemma unabashedly as the tragedy it is. Another motif worth noting is the contrast between Ron Kirby and his Thoreau-reading "free" crowd (pre-hippies) and the embalmed country club crowd Carrie’s constantly forced to see to rehabilitate her wavering bourgeois impulses.
		And Sirk plants intriguing doubts about the Thoreau crowd, too; in one famous scene he cuts from a celebration inside to a glass rooftop looking down at them, with dead leaves blowing grimly over the glass.
	www.imagesjournal.com /issue10/reviews/sirk/text.htm (1883 words)

	DVD Savant Review: All That Heaven Allows & Written on the Wind
		Douglas Sirk is a good director who made melodramatic movies, the best of which transcended their genre.
		Sirk has Marylee dance several times in the movie to express the frenetic tension she's injected into the family...
		The final image of her alone, figuratively having sex with a model of an oil well at her father's desk, is a killer, and was featured on the cover of a book on Sirk (Sirk on Sirk: Interviews with Jon Halliday, 1972 Viking, NY) that the feminist critical studies majors at UCLA loved.
	www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s273sirk.html (1735 words)

	LA Weekly: Film Feature: All That Hollywood Allowed
		Sirk's luxuriant adaptations of moralistic best-sellers by Lloyd C. Douglas and Fannie Hurst have long since transcended the circumstances of their production to emerge as the work of the greatest Technicolor Expressionist of the late studio era, surpassing even Vincente Minnelli and Nicholas Ray.
		Throughout the '50s, Sirk repeatedly filled cinemas with the rustle of starchy linen and the muffling of housewives' tears, and for years the standard perception of him was of a giant ghettoized within the confines of the genre then patronizingly called the "women's picture," toiling on overripe, ludicrous material several stories beneath his considerable talents.
		Implicit in both views is the consoling delusion that Sirk was somehow enslaved by the philistines at Universal, that he was forced to work on airheaded weepies without redeeming social merit, and that he had to smuggle in all those subversive elements that characterize his best work.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/99/42/film-patterson.shtml (1078 words)

	Sirk, Douglas -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The German-born son of Danish parents, Sirk worked in the theatre as artistic director of the Bremen Playhouse (1923–29) and of the Old Theatre in Leipzig (1929–36).
		Michael Kirk Douglas was born on Sept. 25, 1944, in New Brunswick, N.J. Douglas's first successful acting role was in the television series The Streets of San Francisco (1972–74).
		The author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 was Stephen Douglas, a United States senator from 1847 until his death.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9001276 (630 words)

	MetroActive Movies \| Douglas Sirk
		Riding in on a cloud of dead leaves are the dregs of the Hadleys, a once-proud oil family.
		The best argument for Sirk's divinity lies in his visuals: his Necco-ized colors and use of space refine the preposterous dilemmas of his players.
		Maybe it's Sirk's own exposure to the extreme bad behavior of the Nazis that made him able to bring such passion to the theme that politeness is imperative.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sfmetro/08.02.99/sirk-9929.html (848 words)

	DVD REVIEW (R0) Written On The Wind (Douglas Sirk) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Robert Stack is excellent as the rich son of an oil magnate, who has more trust in his son's friend (Rock Hudson) that in his own flesh and blood - which includes the lovely spider woman that he calls his daughter Marylee (Dorothy Malone in her Oscar winning performance, Stack was also nominated).
		Douglas Sirk filmed this melodrama using again suggestive, deep colors to reflect the mood of his actors and underline the tension.
		As extras, Douglas Sirk's work is showcased in several stages (Germany, U.S. and then in particular, his work at Universal) on still frames with hundreds of photos from his films.
	www.dvdscan.com /writtenon.htm (553 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Sirk Douglas
		Born Claus Detlev Sierk in Hamburg, Sirk changed his nationality from Danish to German to...
		People born in or associated with the state include doctor and astronomer Heinrich Olbers; composer Paul Dessau; writer Carl Almqvist; director...
		Douglas (town), capital of the Isle of Man, Great Britain.
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Sirk_Douglas.html (95 words)

	All That Heaven Allows (1955) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Douglas Sirk is a truly underrated director, and this film shows why.
		This was the decade in which "The Lonely Crowd" was published, and this film exemplifies that concept, as well as striking examples of other- vs. inner-directed, far better than any other film of its time.
		Sirk was truly a visionary, well ahead of his time.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0047811 (590 words)

	TerritorioScuola OpenDirectoryProject > Arts> Movies> Filmmaking> Directing> Directors> S> Sirk, Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Films of Douglas Sirk - - Michael E. Grost examines Sirk and two of his films, "Hitler's Madman" and "Sleep, My Love..
		Imitation of Life - Douglas Sirk's '50s America - - Boston Phoenix profile by Chris Fujiwara of "the essential '50s director..
		Senses of Cinema - Douglas Sirk - - Tom Ryan examines the director's career.
	www.territorioscuola.com /dmoz.php3/Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/S/Sirk,_Douglas (205 words)

	Douglas Sirk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Douglas Sirk -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1897 – January 14, 1987) was a (A person of German nationality) German-born (The person who directs the making of a film) film director most well known for his work in (The film industry of the United States) Hollywood in the (The decade from 1950 to 1959) 1950s.
		Hans Detlef Sierck was born in (A city in northern Germany on the Elbe River) Hamburg, Germany and spread his education over three universities.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/do/douglas_sirk.htm (470 words)

	The Software Studio : /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/S/Sirk,_Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Douglas Sirk - Biography and filmography from the All Movie Guide.
		Senses of Cinema - Douglas Sirk - Tom Ryan examines the director's career.
		White Melodrama - Douglas Sirk - Extensive retrospective on the director's work by Tag Gallagher.
	portal.thesoftwarestudio.com /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/S/Sirk,_Douglas (179 words)

	MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Douglas Sirk
		MSN Encarta - Resultados de la búsqueda - Douglas Sirk
		Douglas, capital, puerto y municipio de la isla de Man, una de las islas británicas del mar de Irlanda.
		Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939), actor y productor estadounidense, celebre por sus habilidades acrobáticas y como espadachín, que constituían la...
	es.encarta.msn.com /Douglas_Sirk.html (97 words)

	USATODAY.com - Sirk's soapy, subversive cinematic successes live on (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Julianne Moore's 2002 triumph Far From Heaven spun off the films of director Douglas Sirk, whose swan song and biggest hit — 1959's Imitation of Life— is out on a DVD two-fer today with director John Stahl's 1934 Life original.
		Sirk's glossy and more passionately directed version kept Lana Turner's career going and earned both Juanita Moore and Susan Kohner Oscar nominations.
		Key Sirks not on DVD: Barbara Stanwyck's family abandonment in All I Desire (1953); Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and love rekindled in There's Always Tomorrow (1956); Wind's Hudson-Stack-Malone trio reunited in The Tarnished Angels (1958), which TV showings always ruin because they aren't letterboxed.
	www.usatoday.com /life/movies/reviews/2004-02-09-mike-menu_x.htm (432 words)

	Douglas Sirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
		Best known for his Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, Douglas Sirk first achieved success in post-WWI Germany, as a theater director.
		Despite his great success, Sirk left Germany in 1937 because of his opposition to the policies of the Third Reich.
	www.hollywood.com /celebs/detail/celeb/196804 (317 words)

	TSPDT - Douglas Sirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Formal excellence and visual wit are seldom as appreciated at first glance as are the topical sensations of the hour.
		One big obstacle to an appreciation of his oeuvre is an inbred prejudice to what Raymond Durgnat has called the genre of the female weepies as opposed to the male weepies.
		"Though the erudite Sirk worked in the intellectually disreputable realm of the melodrama, his alertness to the injustices underlying the American Dream and his commitment to underdog characters made for heart-rending, thought-provoking cinema." - Geoff Andrew (The Director's Vision, 1999)
	www.theyshootpictures.com /sirkdouglas.htm (383 words)

	Douglas Sirk Pics and Sirk Douglas Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	www.bravenews.net /photos/douglas-sirk-photos-43398.html (164 words)

	Douglas Sirk, Imitation of Life (1959)
		Lucy Fischer, ed., Imitation of Life: Douglas Sirk, Director (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991).
		Read a biographical sketch of the author who wrote both the novel Imitation of Life and the screenplay for all three versions of the film, Fannie Hurst (1889-1968).
		Read Wini Wood's Summary and reflections on Imitation of Life, from her Strong Women Homepage at Wellesley College.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/life.html (1193 words)

	MP3S Music Metasearch Sirk, Douglas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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		Douglas Sirk - Filmography and biography from the Internet Movie Database.
		All That Heaven Allows and Written on the Wind - Reviews by Glenn Erickson.
	www.musiccrawl.com /Arts/Movies/Filmmaking/Directing/Directors/S/Sirk,Douglas (157 words)

	the knowledge.com ™ directory - arts - movies - filmmaking - directing - directors - s - sirk, douglas - movies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Douglas Sirk's " Written on the Wind " Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Universal - ...
		DVDBeaver.com - DVD Comparison Douglas Sirk's " Written on the Wind " Criterion - Region 0 - NTSC vs. Universal - Region 2 - PAL
		Bathed in lurid Technicolor, melodrama maestro Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind is the stylishly debauched tale of a Texas oil magnate brought down by the excesses of his spoiled offspring.
		Features an all-star quartet that includes Robert Stack as a pistol-packin’ alcoholic playboy; Lauren Bacall as his long-suffering wife; Rock Hudson as his earthy best friend; and Dorothy Malone (who won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar© for her performance) as his nymphomaniac sister.
	www.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDCompare9/written_on_the_wind_.htm (547 words)

	CINEstrenos.com - Proyectos
		este melodrama "a la Douglas Sirk" de Todd Haynes
		Levanta Todd Haynes su particular revisión del melodrama a la sombra de uno de los principales maestros del género, el alemán Douglas Sirk, buscando inspiración en clásicos como Esplendor en la hierba, Escrito sobre el viento o Sólo el cielo lo sabe.
		Y construye Lejos del Cielo en torno a una historia que cumple a rajatabla los cánones de este "cine de mujeres", la de un ama de casa de los años 50 caída en desgracia por su amistad con un jardinero negro.
	www.cinestrenos.com /proyectos/temas/farfrom/farfrom.htm (345 words)

	English 378--History of Film, Part I: From the 1890s to
		A particular strength is a good list of the major films from each grouping.
		The Bill Douglas Centre for the History of Cinema and Popular Culture (U. of Exeter, UK)
		A brief but fascinating look at some of the material objects associated with the role of film in 20th century culture--especially good is the "magic lantern" collection.
	personal.centenary.edu /%7Ejhendric/film_history/2003_369syl.html (3050 words)

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		Extensive retrospective on the director''s work by Tag Gallagher.
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		- Michael E. Grost examines Sirk and two of his films, "Hitler's Madman" and "Sleep, My Love."
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