fassbinder schrieb einen bericht über den regisseur douglas sirk, der mich faszinierte, weisst du evtl. was darüber?
ich freu mich extrem, marco, dass du RW fassbinder ein log gewidmet hast, die idee ist spitze!
ich hoffe, noch einiges dazu beitragen zu können.
woelfin
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yeah musste mich einfach mit einem eigenen Log reinschmuggeln, da sonst die anderen ants innerhalb the world according to marcosolo nicht fündig geworden wären.

Hier was zu oben:

“Sirk has made the tenderest films I know; they are the films of someone who loves people and doesn’t despise them as we do.” (Fassbinder)
Such was the admiration of Rainer Werner Fassbinder for Douglas Sirk. In Sirk, Fassbinder found a humanist filmmaker who used the genre of melodrama to explore, with a critical and ironic eye, middle-class American society and its contradictions. The impact of Sirk on Fassbinder wasn’t merely intellectual - after their 1971 meeting Fassbinder took Sirk to heart and began making his own distinctive style of melodramas, becoming in his own right, like Sirk, a master of melodrama.

Sirk, unlike Fassbinder, has had a much harder time garnering attention. Although he was a well-known director in the 1950s and worked with such stars as Rock Hudson (who made 8 films with him), Barbara Stanwyck, Jane Wyman, Lauren Bacall and Lana Turner, in addition to directing several hits (Magnificent Obsession, All that Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind, Imitation of Life) he nonetheless went through a period of relative obscurity. However, there has been renewed interest in his work since the Sirk retrospectives of the 1970s and 1980s, and most recently the centenary celebrations of his birth in 1997 which produced a new revival of Sirk retrospectives, including the latest, the first ever Sirk retro in Montréal. This is a unique opportunity for Montréalers to discover the work of Sirk and to explore the cinematic kinship between him and his fellow compatriot, Fassbinder. ***

Gruss
Marcosolo