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…
francisco rodriguez·Oct 3, 2023Between the Eyes and the Imitation:The Interplay between Spectatorship and Performance in Douglas Sirk’s Imitation of Life (1959) and Jordan Peele’s Get Out (2017)
Colin Edwards·Mar 27, 2023‘Thunder on the Hill’ or — Nun Noir?I was expecting Douglas Sirk’s ‘Thunder on the Hill’ (1951) to be a film noir and even though it can certainly be labelled as such it…
Colin Edwards·Mar 23, 2023‘All That Heaven Allows’ or — The Vital Importance of Having Your Shrubbery Pruned?Cary Scott (Jane Wyman) is a wealthy, upper-class widow, mother of two children on the cusp of adulthood and who would now like her…
Colin Edwards·Mar 18, 2023‘Magnificent Obsession’ or — Crazed Sirk-adian Rhythms?‘Magnificent Obsession’ (1954) has been described as a “combination of kitsch and craziness and trashiness” with a “damned crazy story if…
Colin Edwards·Feb 23, 2022‘Written on the Wind’ or — Dario Does ‘Dallas’?Robert Stack blasts his sports car down the early morning roads, recklessly chucking back a bottle of liquor as he furiously careens along…
