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The angles are the director's thoughts. The lighting is his philosophy.
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This is the dialectic - there is a very short distance between high art and trash, and trash that contains an element of craziness is by this very quality nearer to art.
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There is a wonderful expression: seeing through a glass darkly. Everything, even life, is inevitably removed from you. You can't reach, or touch, the real. You just see reflections
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Your characters have to remain innocent of what your picture is after.
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Douglas Sirk
Born:
April 26, 1897
Died:
January 14, 1987
(aged 89)
Bio:
Douglas Sirk was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s.
Known for:
Imitation of Life (1959)
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Written on the Wind (1956)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
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