Douglas Sirk Archives • The Austin Chronicle

Screens

Sink Into Sirk This May

Alamo screens “Majestic Tears: The Melodramas of Douglas Sirk”

by Kimberley Jones May 1, 2017September 30, 2025

Screens

DVD Watch

This is the film that heralded Sirk’s astonishing end-career run of gloriously over-the-top women’s pictures

by Kimberley Jones February 6, 2009September 30, 2025

Screens

A Douglas Sirk tour de force, ‘Written on the Wind’ explores the director’s typical fascination with interfamilial relationships in a hold-on-to-your-cocktail- hat production oozing with Technicolor angst

by Stephen MacMillan Moser March 18, 2005September 30, 2025

Columns

Page Two

It has never been a secret that the magic ingredient that makes SXSW work is Austin

by Louis Black February 25, 2005September 30, 2025

Columns

Page Two

It’s time to celebrate the coming of South by Southwest and think about how we’re going to pay for our roads

by Louis Black February 4, 2005September 30, 2025

Arts

State of Affairs

The current political season is reflected equally in an angry Iraq analysis and a soapy novel with a Sirkian sweep

by Roger Gathman October 22, 2004September 30, 2025

Columns

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to “Dancing About Architecture” and chart a new course, a bit.

by Louis Black January 3, 2003September 30, 2025

Columns

After a Fashion

Oh, you know it’s the season when everyone gets on the First Thursday bandwagon. Plus, this week, our Style Avatar goes to jail. You’ll just have to read about it.

by Stephen MacMillan Moser December 6, 2002September 30, 2025

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‘Heaven’ Sent

Todd Haynes resurrects the gloriously overwrought weepies of the Fifties

by Kimberley Jones November 22, 2002September 30, 2025

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Video Reviews

Fassbinder’s grimy Berliner sensibility coats the bare bones of Sirk’s original tale in a slick sheen of weary cynicism and pits true love against societal mores in a battle to the bitter end.