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German 2022-01-18 08:01:22
[Film Review] All That Heaven Allows (1955) 8.4/10
An auteur maudit of his time, German émigré Douglas Sirk's renown has been considerably reappraised with much admiration for his trademark disposition of light and color, the swelling watchability sublimated from its saccharine source material, aka. the often derogated melodrama, and affecting...
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Katlyn 2022-01-18 08:01:22
All That Heaven Allows: An Articulate Screen by Laura Mulvey
Douglas Sirk once said: "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." When All That Heaven Allows was released by Universal Pictures in 1955, it was just another critically...
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Layne 2022-03-26 09:01:12
stunning cinematography, fell in love with Douglas Sirk; doesn't Rock Hudson look like a greasy version of Gregory Peck
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Winfield 2022-03-27 09:01:18
Just so you know I rarely give out one stars...it's not that the film itself is so unbelivable and horribly made in any sense--the melodramatic fashion was actually intended so. But to me I simply hate clichés too much to have any appreciation for anything else in the film.
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Mr. Weeks: [talking about the television Cary's kids bought her for Christmas] All you have to do is turn that dial, and you have all the company you want, right there on the screen. Drama, comedy... life's parade at your fingertips.
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Dr. Hennessy: I was just going over the findings. There's nothing organically wrong with you, Cary.
Cary Scott: Well then why do I have these headaches? It's not my imagination, and they're getting worse all the time.
Dr. Hennessy: You're punishing yourself.
Cary Scott: For what?
Dr. Hennessy: For running away from life. The headaches are nature's way of making a protest.
Cary Scott: Well, will you give me something for them?
Dr. Hennessy: Do you expect me to give you a prescription to cure life?
