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By Ashley H (2,345) on 28 Mar 2005

WELL MADE MELODRAMA, WITH DOROTHY MALONE UNDESERVING OF HER SUPPORTING ACTRESS OSCAR. SHE'S GOOD, BUT NO WAY OSCAR MATERIAL…

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By Milhouse V (23) on 02 Oct 2004

Thursday night I went to a club in Lincoln Park called Sauce with some friends. I had an allright time…

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By Tim Dirks (207) for Tim Dirks' The Greatest Films (207) on 22 Apr 2002

Written on the Wind (1956) is generally regarded as the best of director Douglas Sirk's 1950s lush, vibrantly colorful…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 01 Jan 2000

In countless ways visible and invisible, Sirk's sly subversion skewed American popular culture, and helped launch a new age of irony…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 01 Jan 2000

[Sirk's] masterpiece, the grand-daddy of them all…

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By William Thomas (198) for Empire (3,446) on 11 May 1987

Though glossy, Sirk's film is tightly structured, with a creative manipulation of light and reflection, and heavy with the symbolism of male…

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By Tim Purtell (11) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Apr 1985

Boiling over with heated acting and schmaltzy scores, Douglas Sirk’s ’50s melodramas tap neatly into our collective trash psyche…

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By Michael Wilmington (1,474) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 11 Sep 1981

The acting is dynamite, the melodrama is compulsive, the photography, lighting, and design share a bold disregard for realism…

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By Philip French (1,151) for The Observer (UK) (826) on 18 Sep 1979

This oil-family story is way, way east of Eden. Were I asked to choose, Written on the Wind would blow in as my favorite Sirk film…

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