Felicia is joined by Darragh McGrath to discuss why The Tarnished Angels (1957) may be the most Sirkian at its core.
We chat about the beauty of the black and white photography, and why Sirk was so good at portraying the lives of broken people.
Send us your thoughts on the episode by sending us a message on any of our social platforms or by email: seeingfacesinmovies@gmail.com
Listen to our previous episodes:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Sources:
Sirk, D., & Halliday, J. (2018). Sirk on sirk: Conversations with Jon Halliday. Bloomsbury Publishing.
https://criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-ray-reviews/scott-reviews-douglas-sirks-the-tarnished-angels-masters-of-cinema-blu-ray-review
https://www.popmatters.com/tarnished-angels-douglas-sirks-2630900330.html
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2019/the-tarnished-angels
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/the-tarnished-angels
http://www.storyenthusiast.com/rock-hudson-blogathon-tarnished-angels-1957/
https://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/Tarnished-Angels.pdf
Outro Song:
Main Title from The Tarnished Angels by Frank Skinner
Films Mentioned:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes 2002)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk 1955)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk 1954)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk 1956)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk 1959)
Giant (George Stevens 1956)
The Big Country (William Wyler 1958)
Jubal (Delmer Daves 1956)
Interlude (Douglas Sirk 1957)
Summertime (David Lean 1955)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk 1958)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch 1992)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk 1952)
Seconds (John Frakenheimer 1966)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974)
Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue 1958)
The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer 1969)
Dodsworth (William Wyler 1936)
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Felicia is joined by Darragh McGrath to discuss why The Tarnished Angels (1957) may be the most Sirkian at its core.
We chat about the beauty of the black and white photography, and why Sirk was so good at portraying the lives of broken people.
Send us your thoughts on the episode by sending us a message on any of our social platforms or by email: seeingfacesinmovies@gmail.com
Listen to our previous episodes:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Sources:
Sirk, D., & Halliday, J. (2018). Sirk on sirk: Conversations with Jon Halliday. Bloomsbury Publishing.
https://criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-ray-reviews/scott-reviews-douglas-sirks-the-tarnished-angels-masters-of-cinema-blu-ray-review
https://www.popmatters.com/tarnished-angels-douglas-sirks-2630900330.html
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2019/the-tarnished-angels
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/the-tarnished-angels
http://www.storyenthusiast.com/rock-hudson-blogathon-tarnished-angels-1957/
https://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/Tarnished-Angels.pdf
Outro Song:
Main Title from The Tarnished Angels by Frank Skinner
Films Mentioned:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes 2002)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk 1955)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk 1954)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk 1956)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk 1959)
Giant (George Stevens 1956)
The Big Country (William Wyler 1958)
Jubal (Delmer Daves 1956)
Interlude (Douglas Sirk 1957)
Summertime (David Lean 1955)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk 1958)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch 1992)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk 1952)
Seconds (John Frakenheimer 1966)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974)
Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue 1958)
The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer 1969)
Dodsworth (William Wyler 1936)
Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica 1952) w/ Geoff Thomas (Cinematic Memories Podcast)
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Umberto D. (Vittorio De Sica 1952) w/ Geoff Thomas (Cinematic Memories Podcast)
Felicia is joined by Geoff Thomas to discuss the effects of capitalism on an old man and his dog in Vittorio De Sica’s Umberto D. (1952).
We chat about this film as a bridge between De Sica’s as a neo-realist filmmaker and his move towards comedies. Along with the themes of questioning the moral compass of authority figures present in this film.
Send us your thoughts on the episode by sending us a message on any of our social platforms or by email: seeingfacesinmovies@gmail.com
Check out our previous episodes with Geoff:
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel 1964)
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman 1963)
Follow Geoff here:
IG: @cinema_gnt
Letterboxd: @gnthomas
Website: https://cinemamemry.wordpress.com/
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Sources:
https://web.archive.org/web/20110721100149/
http://www.ingmarbergman.se/universe.asp?guid=66DA7015-8017-4303-9A31-658D02296D45
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/292-seeing-clearly-through-tears-on-the-smart-sentiment-of-umberto-d
https://www.nytimes.com/1955/11/08/archives/screen-honest-realism-de-sicas-umberto-d-is-story-of-old-man.html
https://www.deepfocusreview.com/definitives/umberto-d/
https://cinemafromthespectrum.com/2017/02/24/umberto-d-review/
OUTRO SONG:
Umberto D. by Alessandro Cicognini
FILMS MENTIONED:
The Silence (Ingmar Bergman 1963)
Diary of a Chambermaid (Luis Buñuel 1964)
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica 1948)
The Leopard (Luchino Visconti 1963)
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa 1952)
Shoeshine (Vittorio De Sica 1946)
The Third Man (Carol Reed 1949)
Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica 1951)
Terminal Station (Vittorio De Sica 1953)
After the Fox (Vittorio De Sica 1966)
The Voyage (Vittorio De Sica 1974)
Sunflower (Vittorio De Sica 1970)
Two Women (Vittorio De Sica 1960)
Marriage Italian Style (Vittorio De Sica 1964)
Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (Vittorio De Sica 1963)
Boccaccio ‘70 (Vittorio De Sica, Federico Fellini, Mario Monicelli, Luchino Visconti 1962)
Rebecca (Alfred Hithcock 1940)
Il boom (Vittorio De Sica 1963)
Anora (Sean Baker 2024)
Wild Strawberries (Ingmar Bergman 1957)
Tokyo Story (Yasujirō Ozu 1953)
SEEING FACES IN MOVIES
Felicia is joined by Darragh McGrath to discuss why The Tarnished Angels (1957) may be the most Sirkian at its core.
We chat about the beauty of the black and white photography, and why Sirk was so good at portraying the lives of broken people.
Send us your thoughts on the episode by sending us a message on any of our social platforms or by email: seeingfacesinmovies@gmail.com
Listen to our previous episodes:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Sources:
Sirk, D., & Halliday, J. (2018). Sirk on sirk: Conversations with Jon Halliday. Bloomsbury Publishing.
https://criterioncast.com/reviews/blu-ray-reviews/scott-reviews-douglas-sirks-the-tarnished-angels-masters-of-cinema-blu-ray-review
https://www.popmatters.com/tarnished-angels-douglas-sirks-2630900330.html
https://www.cineaste.com/fall2019/the-tarnished-angels
https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/the-tarnished-angels
http://www.storyenthusiast.com/rock-hudson-blogathon-tarnished-angels-1957/
https://filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/Tarnished-Angels.pdf
Outro Song:
Main Title from The Tarnished Angels by Frank Skinner
Films Mentioned:
Ace in the Hole (Billy Wilder 1951)
Straight Time (Ulu Grosbard 1978)
Minnie and Moskowitz (John Cassavetes 1971)
Far From Heaven (Todd Haynes 2002)
All That Heaven Allows (Douglas Sirk 1955)
Magnificent Obsession (Douglas Sirk 1954)
Written on the Wind (Douglas Sirk 1956)
Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk 1959)
Giant (George Stevens 1956)
The Big Country (William Wyler 1958)
Jubal (Delmer Daves 1956)
Interlude (Douglas Sirk 1957)
Summertime (David Lean 1955)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (Douglas Sirk 1958)
Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (David Lynch 1992)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal (Douglas Sirk 1952)
Seconds (John Frakenheimer 1966)
Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974)
Lonelyhearts (Vincent J. Donehue 1958)
The Gypsy Moths (John Frankenheimer 1969)
Dodsworth (William Wyler 1936)