Known for his lavish, self aware melodramas, the films of Douglas Sirk are screening at The Melbourne Cinémathèque next month.
The Cinémathèque 2022 program will re-commence after the Melbourne International Film Festival with Life’s Parade atYour Fingertips: Douglas Sirk. Best known as the director of a string of lavish Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s, this season explores the stages in Sirk’s screen career–from his exploration of a wide variety of genres and modes of production to the extraordinary group of films upon which his contemporary reputation rests (including All That Heaven Allows, A Time to Love and A Time to Die and Imitation of Life)
What you need to know
- The Melbourne Cinémathèque have unveiled their 2022 program
- The first screening of the season are the films of Douglas Sirk
- Known for All That Heaven Allows, A Time to Love and a Time to Die and Imitation of Life, they’ll be screening across three sessions from August 25 until September 7
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Life’s Parade at your Fingertips: Douglas Sirk
Wednesday August 24
- 7:00pm – All I Desire (1953) 80 minutes – PG, 35mm print
- 8:45pm – Imitation of Life (1959) 125 minutes – PG, 35mm print
Wednesday August 31
- 7:00pm – All That Heaven Allows (1955) 85 minutes – G, 35mm print
- 8:40pm – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) 132 minutes – PG, 35mm print
Wednesday September 7
- 6:30pm – Shockproof (1949) 79 minutes – unclassified 15+
- 8:00pm – April, April! (1935) 82 minutes – unclassified 15+
- 9:35pm – Boefje (1939) 94 minutes – unclassified 15+, 35mm print
The full program features eight curated seasons including the films ofDouglas Sirk, Celine Sciamma, Juraj Jakubisko, Cecil Holmes, Barbara Hammer, F.W.Murnau and Joan Micklin Silver. To close the 2022 program, the Cinémathèque presents a surprising selection of genre-bending “alternative” musicals to entertain, dazzle and challenge audiences.
The Melbourne Cinémathèque program screens from Aug 24-Dec 21 every Wednesday at ACMI. Full and mini memberships are available via ACMI. Learn more by heading here.
