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Felicia is joined by Ben Turnbull to talk about the male ego in Douglas Sirk’s Written on the Wind (1956).

We chat about the earnest approach Sirk takes to all of his films and specifically a high tense story such as this one.

This is the series finale and one of my favourite month’s of the show so far. It was fascinating learning more about Sirk’s life and I hope we encouraged you to seek out more of his work.

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Sources:
Sirk, D., & Halliday, J. (2018). Sirk on sirk: Conversations with Jon Halliday. Bloomsbury Publishing.

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/7680-written-on-the-wind-no-good-end

https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/97-written-on-the-wind

https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/feature-articles/sirk-2/

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/melodrama-and-the-new-woman/

https://www.filmcomment.com/article/sirkumstantial-evidence/

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/movie-of-the-week-written-on-the-wind

Outro Song:
Main Title from Written on the Wind by Frank Skinner

Films Mentioned:

Saw (Franchise)

Interview With a Vampire (Neil Jordan 1994)

Queen of the Damned (Michael Rymer 2002)

Through a Glass Darkly (Ingmar Bergman 1961)

Winter Light (Ingmar Bergman 1963)

The Silence (Ingmar Bergman 1963)

Dogville (Lars von Trier 2003)

Manderlay (Lars von Trier  2005)

Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk 1959) 

Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk 1954)

My Winnipeg (Guy Maddin 2007)

There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk 1956)

Mulholland Drive (David Lynch 2001)

Rebel Without a Cause (Nicholas Ray 1955)

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974)

May December (Todd Haynes 2023)

The Go-Between (Joseph Losey 1971)

Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes 2002)

Lured (Douglas Sirk 1947)

The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk 1957)

Battle Hymn (Douglas Sirk 1957)

A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk 1958)

Airplane! (David Zucker, Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams 1980)

Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli 1956)

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder 1944)

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock 1960)

The Ascent (Larisa Shepitko 1977)

Peyton Place (Mark Robson 1957)

Bigger Than Life (Nicholas Ray 1956)

Murder By Decree (Bob Clark 1979)

Lolita (Stanley Kubrick 1962)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (Robert Aldrich 1962)

What Ever Happened to Aunt Alice? (Lee H. Katzin 1969)

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