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Nov 2, 2015 · Mystery Submarine Douglas Sirk, USA, 1950, 35mm, 78m The first film Sirk directed upon signing his multi-year contract with Universal was this post-WWII-set nautical thriller, starring Macdonald Carey as a U.S. Naval Intelligence officer who goes undercover to rescue a scientist kidnapped by a villainous Nazi commander (and thereby thwart a plot by the remnants of the Third Reich to steal atomic secrets) and sink a German submarine hidden off the coast of Mexico.
Jan 20, 2022 · Douglas Sirk – Biography. Detlef Sierck was born in Hamburg, Germany in 1897 and died in Lugano, Switzerland in 1987. He spent his childhood years in Hamburg and in his parents’ native country of Denmark before starting a career in theater in Germany.
Douglas Sirk, nascut Hans Detlef Sierck (Hamburg, Imperi alemany, 26 d'abril, 1897 - Lugano, Suïssa, 14 de gener, 1987), va ser un director de cinema alemany que va iniciar la carrera al seu país, es va exiliar en 1937 als Estats Units, i va prosseguir com reconegut director de cinema estatunidenc. Molt al final de la seva vida va tornar a Europa.
The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions provides an overview of his entire career, including Sirk’s work on musicals, comedies, thrillers, war movies, and westerns. One of the great ironists of the cinema, Sirk believed rules were there to be broken. Whether defying the decrees of Nazi authorities trying to ...
Jan 31, 2023 · Barry Jenkins on Adapting James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk, The Film's Timeliness and more. An interview with writer/director Barry Jenkins about adapting James Baldwin's novel, the film's timeliness, casting soul mates and more.
Dec 22, 2015 · “Douglas Sirk: Melo Maestro” By James McCourt November/December 1975 Written on the Wind Sirk, who’d left Hollywood and the U.S. behind after 1959’s Imitation of Life, found his career rejuvenated within critical circles after the 1971 publication of Jon Halliday’s seminal, book-length interview, Sirk on Sirk.
Jun 14, 2019 · View Larger Image. The 57th Best Director of All-Time: Douglas Sirk. Sirk. Sirk is another great auteur who was completely overlooked at the time (and laughed at a little) in Hollywood for his soapy melodramas mostly “made for women” (aka “women weepies”) starring rock Hudson (who is no great thespian). If you want to talk about how ...
