Showing posts with label sirk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sirk. Show all posts
Wednesday, January 12, 2022

NIAGARA - CRITERION CHANNEL

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This review was originally written for DVDTalk.com in 2013. Marilyn Monroe was rarely cast as anything but the sympathetic or comedic love ...
Sunday, March 29, 2020

LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN - #1020

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“ Of all the seven deadly sins, jealousy is the most deadly .” It’s ironic, I suppose, that I became positively obsessed with Gene Tie...
Saturday, November 23, 2019

NOW, VOYAGER - #1004

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What separates a drama from a melodrama? This is something I basically knew from context--what movies get painted with that brush, or w...
Saturday, August 31, 2019

CRAIG'S WIFE - CRITERION CHANNEL

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“ People who live to themselves -- are generally left to themselves .” What a splendid little film Craig’s Wife is. The 1936 film from...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

WRITTEN ON THE WIND - #96

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Dorothy Malone died this past week. A repeat performer in Douglas Sirk films of the 1950s, she was probably best known for her Oscar-win...
Sunday, May 14, 2017

GOOD MORNING - #84

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Please note: the images here are taken from the 2000 standard definition DVD and not the newly released 2017 Blu-ray under review. ...
Sunday, January 22, 2017

FOX AND HIS FRIENDS - #851

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In 1975, the writer/director Rainer Werner Fassbinder applied his finely honed sense of Sirkian melodrama to Fox and His Friends , a sm...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS - #835

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There is a pargraph in Glenn Kenny’s essay in the booklet accompanying Criterion’s release of Valley of the Dolls where he posits that ...