Guest post by Caleb Allison. Spoilers throughout! Douglas Sirk has become synonymous with lushly subversive melodrama wrapped in Technicolor brilliance, but before his nearly unbelievable string of melodramatic masterpieces in the 1950s, including Magnificent Obsession (1954), All That Heaven Allows (1955), Written on the Wind (1956), and Imitation of Life (1959), he conjured up a… Read more »
Tag: George Cukor
Monthly Movie Round-Up: November
Every month, A Place for Film brings you a selection of films from our group of regular bloggers. Even though these films aren’t currently being screened at the IU Cinema, this series reflects the varied programming that can be found at the Cinema and demonstrates the eclectic tastes of the bloggers. Each contributor has picked… Read more »
A Few More George Cukor Classics
George Cukor, known as the “woman’s director” during Hollywood’s Studio Era, seems to have been a part of a vast number of Hollywood classics. He is, in fact, one of my own favorite directors, a handful of his films sitting in my list of favorites. It’s no wonder then that in my three years co-coordinating… Read more »