Colin Edwards·Jun 22‘The Girl from Marsh Croft’ or — Sirk Shatters the Screen?One of the things I love about Douglas Sirk are his transitions; the way he’d inventively move from one scene to the next by either a fade…
Colin Edwards·Jul 29, 2025‘A Time of Love and a Time to Die’ or — Cross of Irony?‘I do believe in happiness…’ Douglas Sirk once said, ‘happiness must be there, because it can be destroyed.’
Colin Edwards·Jul 18, 2025‘Sign of the Pagan’ or — Much Worse (but also much better) than ‘Spartacus’?I love Douglas Sirk. I love sword and sandal movies. Wouldn’t it be cool if Douglas Sirk had made a sword and sandal movie? Wait a minute…
Colin Edwards·Feb 28, 2025‘April, April!’ or — A Delicious Debut?There’s possibly no group of films I adore more than Douglas Sirk’s American melodramas, so I was extremely excited about diving into his…
Colin Edwards·Mar 12, 2024‘Imitation of Life’ or — Piercing the Obscuring Artifice?The opening credits are throbbing with meaning (but, then again, nobody knew how to do opening credits that throbbed with meaning quite…
