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 ...
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, ...
The glossy, uber-melodramatic films of director Douglas Sirk and producer Ross Hunter, which were so popular in the 1950s, are deceptively simple. The glitz, glamour, Dior necklaces and Russell ...
Appropriately, Sirk himself has always unleashed passionate emotions among cohorts of fervent acolytes and sneering detractors. Yet, while academic gatekeepers have readily admitted the comedies of ...
THE director Douglas Sirk has become identified almost exclusively with the lushly produced, emotionally extravagant and flamboyantly hued melodramas he made near the end of his Hollywood career, ...
It’s one thing when a movie in first run or in a notable repertory series becomes a prominent subject of discussion. It's another when a great movie, even a Hollywood classic with familiar stars, is ...
Cinematique is finally bringing Far From Heaven to Wilmington - this time for sure, honest! - making up for last month's botched screening attempt. The Todd Haynes film opens Thursday for a ...
The new Amazon Prime Video series “THEM” has a lot packed into its 10 episodes, but at its heart, according to creator Little Marvin, the show is about exploring the American dream. “I’ve been ...
Each week, Richard Brody picks a classic film, a modern film, an independent film, a foreign film, and a documentary for online viewing. The uncrowned king of loopy comedy, Jared Hess, turns his ...