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Film Imitation of Life (1959) w/ Lecture and Booksigning by Antonia Lant

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Of Hollywood's popular auteurs, only Alfred Hitchcock has found a home in academia as safe as Douglas Sirk's. Scholars flock to the rich subtext of melodramas like All That Heaven Allows (1955) and Written on the Wind (1956). And though they're often lost in the intellectual bustle, Sirk's surfaces hold real pleasure: the painterly use of Technicolor and composition, the rapturous motion of melodrama, and the close-ups of characters in the throes of passion and anguish (often at the same time). Most of all, Sirk's films' display a stylish subversiveness that makes them such essential viewing. Antonia Lant discusses the director's masterful remake of Imitation of Life, and its handling of the social issues raised in John Stahl's original.

– Max Goldberg

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