Douglas Sirk 1897 - 1987 (original) (raw)

| Show more » | | 32 movies | 131 Blu-ray releases | 63 DVD releases Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s. While highly commercially successful, his films were generally very poorly received by reviewers. His films were considered unimportant (because they revolve around female and domestic issues), banal (because of their focus on larger-than-life feelings) and unrealistic (because of their conspicuous style). Attitudes toward Sirk's films changed drastically in the late 1950s, 1960s and 1970s as his work was re-examined by French, American, and British critics. Analyses of Sirk's work, with their emphasis on aspects of Sirk's formerly-criticized style, revealed an oblique criticism of American society hidden beneath a banal facade of plotting conventional for the era - Sirk's films were now seen as masterpieces of irony. His work is now widely considered to show excellent control of the visuals, extending from lighting and framing to costumes and sets that are saturated with symbolism and shot through with subtle barbs of irony. | | Average movie rating Based on 32 movies and 915 ratingsHighest rated: 7.9 / 10 All That Heav... (1955) Lowest rated: 6.4 / 10 A Scandal in ... (1946) | | ---------------- | | --------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |

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