• Still in Europe he worked on films in Switzerland and the Netherlands. On arrival in the United States, he soon changed his German birth name to Douglas Sirk.
  • Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on...
  • Douglas Sirk was one of the 20th century cinema’s great ironists. And perhaps the most distinctive characteristic of the films he made in Europe and America is the...
  • Sunday, January 20, 2pm at Northwest Film Center. When Douglas Sirk got to Universal Pictures in the 1950s, directors could not do as they pleased.
  • dougles sirk >>>fassbinder>>>ozon almodovar>>>>ozon almodovar>>>>özpetek douglas sirk>>>todd haynes.
  • Best known for his Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s, Douglas Sirk first achieved success in post-WWI Germany, as a theater director.
  • Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow opens with a ‘Welcome to Sunny California’ sign amid pouring rain.
  • Douglas Sirk - Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s.
  • In 1968 in his famous book Sarris wrote “Time, if anything, will vindicate Douglas Sirk
  • Douglas Sirk was not always considered a cinematic genius; he was barely considered competent as a storyteller by film critics of his time.