My ★★★★★ review of Magnificent Obsession (1954) on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8WtNbr
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My ★★★★★ review of Magnificent Obsession (1954) on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/8WtNbr
#letterboxd #movies #sirk #cinema #rockhudson #janewyman #review #magnificentobsession
Another moving, human drama with loads of emotional impact. Signed Sirk. (Sirk, the magnificent) Jane Wyman plays her part with sincerity and subtlety. How can you not care for her character Helen Phillips. Rock Hudson gives his character power and life. Actually, what's not to like about this one? As a Sirk fan I might be biased, but I'm also right about this (yet) another grand piece of CINEMA. Richard Brody (The New Yorker): "Every step depends on stifled emotions and closely guarded secrets, resulting in a buildup of operatic passion that endows everyday gestures and inflections with grandeur and
All that television allows....
"All you have to do is turn that dial and you have all the company you want, right there on the screen. Drama, comedy... life's parade at your fingertips."
1955. #douglassirk #allthatheavenallows
#Fassbinder on #Sirk :
"In Douglas Sirk's movies the #women think. I haven't noticed that with any other director. With any. Usually the women just react, do the things women do, and here they actually think. That's something you've got to see. It's wonderful to see a woman thinking. That gives you hope. Honest."
1956. #douglassirk #writtenonthewind
"If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason."
Douglas Sirk
Best Actress in a Supporting Role, 1957, Academy Awards: Dorothy Malone
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each #christmas i see my own crying face reflected in a television screen; #sirk
"all you have to do is turn that dial and you have all the company you want, right there on the screen. drama, comedy, life's parade at your fingertips."