Douglas Sirk

6/15/03 to 6/29/03

  • Magnificent Obsession, June 27

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  • THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW

    Sunday, June 15 5:30
    Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray rekindle an old flame in a wonderful, melancholy melodrama that "demolishes the social fantasy of the 'happy home.'"-Time Out
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  • ALL I DESIRE

    Saturday, June 21
    A period melodrama that resolutely refuses nostalgia: Barbara Stanwyck returns to a small-town family and soon discovers why she left in the first place. A rare screening of a Sirk classic.
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  • ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS

    Saturday, June 21 7:00
    Rock Hudson comes to prune widow Jane Wyman's garden and uproots her sterile, upper-middle-class suburban life in this elegiac, Thoreauvian mood piece that inspired Todd Haynes's Far from Heaven.
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  • THE FIRST LEGION

    Sunday, June 22 5:30
    Sirk discovers the absurd in the divine with this tale of miracles, faith, and doubt, enlivened by fine performances from Charles Boyer and William Demarest.
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  • MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION

    Friday, June 27 9:30
    Rock Hudson rocketed to stardom as a do-it-yourself savior in this color melodrama about blindness. "Redolent with stereotype, archetype, and symbol."-Errol Morris
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  • WRITTEN ON THE WIND

    Friday, June 27 7:30
    With garish jukebox colors and unabashed psychosexual symbolism, Sirk details the last days of an oil dynasty-Malone & Stack, Hudson & Bacall-at the midpoint of the 20th century.
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  • TARNISHED ANGELS

    Saturday, June 28
    Reporter Rock's fascination with the marginal lives of fairground flier Stack and his wife Malone. "The tracking shots, the crane shots, the pans! I have rarely felt fear and loneliness so much as in this film."-R.W. Fassbinder
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  • SHOCKPROOF

    Saturday, June 28 7:00
    Sirk stylishly directs a punchy Sam Fuller script about the doomed relationship between a parole officer and an ex-con, lovers on the run from an unforgiving society.
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  • IMITATION OF LIFE

    Sunday, June 29 5:30
    Famous mother-daugher weepie with a bitter racial edge. "All of us in the theater cried. Because changing the world is so difficult."-Fassbinder
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