Douglas Sirk Articles
LA HABANERA Review II: Nazi Era Melodrama
Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian in Douglas Sirk's La Habanera LA HABANERA Review: Part I And this is where I got critical of the story. We see no slow deterioration of their marriage and we have nothing on which to base her change of heart. In the earlier sequence she thought her new life was "heaven", now she calls it "hell." Just exactly why, we don't [...]
LA HABANERA – Zarah Leander – d: Douglas Sirk
La Habanera (1937) Direction: Detlef Sierck (aka Douglas Sirk) Screenplay: Gerhard Menzel Cast: Zarah Leander, Ferdinand Marian, Karl Martell, Julia Serda, Boris Alekin, Michael Schulz-Dornburg Zarah Leander La Habanera First, I have to state that I watched Douglas Sirk's La Habanera, not knowing what to expect. All I knew was the brief synopsis on the DVD box. I also knew that Sirk was [...]
Lana Turner in IMITATION OF LIFE Screening
Karen Dicker, Juanita Moore, Terry Burnham, and Lana Turner in Imitation of Life Douglas Sirk’s classic melodrama Imitation of Life, starring Lana Turner, will have its 50th anniversary celebrated with a screening of a recently struck print at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills on Friday, August 21, at 7:30 p.m. Hosted by film critic Stephen Farber, [...]