Douglas Sirk: the Noirs
from Jason and the Movienauts Hosted by Jason Sacks
Michelle is back, after she and Jason finished their epic watch of Billy Wilder films -- make sure to go back and listen to their rating list of Wilder movies if you haven't heard it yet! So it was time to start a look at a new director for this pod, and who better than Michelle's all time favorite director, Douglas Sirk? Jason has enjoyed some of Sirk's melodramas, but never took the time to sit down and watch them systematically. So this is the perfect time to begin discussing the master's film work. Sirk made movies going back to the silent era, but began making his mark in Hollywood with a series of post-War noirs. So Michelle and Jason thought this a perfect time to go back and watch those noirs, to help assess whether they're truly worthy of his longterm reputation or don't measure up to his true classics.
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