Douglas Sirk

American Cinematheque celebrates the 'Lubitsch touch'

2013-03-28 06:00:00

German-born director Ernst Lubitsch, who came to Hollywood in the 1920s, had such a deft hand with comedies that it became known as "the Lubitsch touch." The American Cinematheque's Aero Theatre in Santa Monica is to celebrate "A Touch of Laughter:...

Cinematheque shines spotlight on director Michael Cimino

2013-01-17 06:30:00

The American Cinematheque shines the spotlight on Oscar-winning director Michael Cimino with a three-day retrospective at the Egyptian in Hollywood. Cimino worked in advertising before turning to filmmaking. He co-wrote "Magnum Force," the 1973 "Dirty...

Review: A 'King Lear' disconnect at the Studio Stage

2013-01-10 11:40:00

Director Thomas Bigley has fulfilled an essential task in his modern-day mounting of “King Lear,” presented by the Porters of Hellsgate at the Studio Stage.� Every “Lear” rises and falls on the performance of the actor playing...

Around Town: Oscar short films and a 'Magnificent Obsession'

2012-02-16 16:38:25

Is J.J. Abrams' 'Super 8' the result of an unhealthy Steven Spielberg obsession?

2011-06-17 16:32:54

Can Kate Winslet win Emmy for Joan Crawford's Oscar-winning role in 'Mildred Pierce'?

2010-09-15 16:33:51

Dance review: 'The Butterfly Lovers' at the Ahmanson Theatre

2010-02-13 16:32:44

Kate Winslet taking on Joan Crawford's Oscar-winning role in 'Mildred Pierce'

2010-02-12 16:33:15

STAGE: 'Teen Girl' and other newcomers

2008-05-23 00:00:00

Playwright Justin Tanner takes an uncharacteristic segue into sweetness in his 1992 coming-of-age play, "Teen Girl," now in revival at the Zephyr. "Girl" is not the acid-etched indictment of soulless suburban life so typical of Tanner but a scrawled...

Making sense of Hollywood -- in print

2008-04-16 14:44:15

April 17, 2008 For the last several years, Richard Schickel has been a regular contributor to the Los Angeles Times Book Review, writing primarily about books on film. His new book, "Film on Paper: The Inner Life of Movies," is a collection of many of...

'Ernest Bloch and Eric Zeisl: Fifty Years Later' honors L.A.'s Jewish artists

2009-05-17 00:00:00

Classical composer Eric Zeisl had a tough time living in mid-20th century Los Angeles. The somber, heavy-browed Austrian, who left Nazi-dominated Europe in 1938, stated that the two things he hated most in this world were Hitler and the sun. He was...

Finecut rolls out Kim's 'Pieta': Venice hit seals major-territory deals

2012-09-05 21:55:06

MADRID -- Seoul-based Finecut has closed more major territories on Kim Ki-duk's Venice competition contender "Pieta," which world premiered to a standing ovation Tuesday on the Lido. "Pieta" will now segue from Venice to Toronto for its North American...

"The Samuel Fuller Film Collection" ( Sony , $79.95), an eclectic tribute to American cinema's great tabloid poet, brings together seven Columbia movies that Fuller directed or co-wrote, among them "The Crimson Kimono" (1959), still one of Hollywood's most complex depictions of an interracial

2009-12-17 14:03:30

'Far From Heaven' Todd Haynes take on sexual repression and institutional racism in the form of a '50s melodrama, drawing extensively from the films of Douglas Sirk, was likely always a little too heady for the meat-and-potatoes crowd of Oscar voters.

2008-02-19 18:43:53

The curious rise and fall and rise of Hollywood Regency was popularized by films such as Douglas Sirk s All That Heaven Allows.

2003-06-11 18:23:47