The European filmmaker directed a series of deceptively complex melodramas in the 1950s.“This is the dialectic — there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art” — Douglas Sirk
Douglas Sirk was born in Germany in 1900, and began his career in the early 1920s working in theater. In 1922, he directed his first production — an adaptation of Hermann Bossdorf’s Stationmaster Death, and from then on he became one of the most respected theater directors in Weimar Germany. Then, in 1934, he took a job as a film director at Ufa, the biggest studio in Germany at the time.
In 1941, Sirk left Germany and began working as a director in Hollywood. His early films, such as the WWII drama Hitler’s Madman (1942) have largely been forgotten. These early films varied in genre — he directed war films (Mystery Submarine), historical dramas (A Scandal in Paris), film...
Douglas Sirk was born in Germany in 1900, and began his career in the early 1920s working in theater. In 1922, he directed his first production — an adaptation of Hermann Bossdorf’s Stationmaster Death, and from then on he became one of the most respected theater directors in Weimar Germany. Then, in 1934, he took a job as a film director at Ufa, the biggest studio in Germany at the time.
In 1941, Sirk left Germany and began working as a director in Hollywood. His early films, such as the WWII drama Hitler’s Madman (1942) have largely been forgotten. These early films varied in genre — he directed war films (Mystery Submarine), historical dramas (A Scandal in Paris), film...
- 4/5/2017
- by Angela Morrison
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Lance Bass and his fiancé Michael Turchin officially know how to party. The engaged couple celebrated their final days of being single before tying the knot with a Mardi Gras-themed bachelor party at West Hollywood's gay club The Abbey on Tuesday, Dec. 9, and Us Weekly has an exclusive look inside the wild night! According to a guest, the fete was actually a surprise to the couple, who are set to say "I do" on Dec. 20. The former Nsync member's BFFs Bob Merrick, Lisa Foxx, and Wendy Svehlak threw [...]...
- 12/10/2014
- Us Weekly
In the ongoing global devastation caused by the Haiti earthquake, one country music talent is doing his part to help.
Up and coming country artist Big Kenny, one half of the musical duo Big & Rich, has launched a new record label in an effort to immortalize a fallen comrade who lost his life in the Haiti quake. The label, Glotown, pays tribute to Big Kenny's close friend and mentor Walt Ratterman.
Ratterman, the CEO and co-founder of the nonprofit company SunEnergy Power International, was in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to promote the use of renewable energy resources in the nation's health clinics at the time of the January 12 7.0-magnitude earthquake west of the city. Big Kenny traveled to the Caribbean country on January 20 to aid in Haiti's relief and to learn what had happened to Ratterman, whose bodily remains were recovered from Port-au-Prince's Hotel Montana on February 7.
Since founding the Glotown label,...
Up and coming country artist Big Kenny, one half of the musical duo Big & Rich, has launched a new record label in an effort to immortalize a fallen comrade who lost his life in the Haiti quake. The label, Glotown, pays tribute to Big Kenny's close friend and mentor Walt Ratterman.
Ratterman, the CEO and co-founder of the nonprofit company SunEnergy Power International, was in Haitian capital Port-au-Prince to promote the use of renewable energy resources in the nation's health clinics at the time of the January 12 7.0-magnitude earthquake west of the city. Big Kenny traveled to the Caribbean country on January 20 to aid in Haiti's relief and to learn what had happened to Ratterman, whose bodily remains were recovered from Port-au-Prince's Hotel Montana on February 7.
Since founding the Glotown label,...
- 2/17/2010
- icelebz.com
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