Sirk on Sirk

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Summary: Good insight into an important director
Review: A series of interviews that Jon Halliday carried out with Sirk in his later years. The interviews are broken into six periods-- Sirk's German Theater period; the German film period; the exile years in Switzerland, France and Holland; his two American periods and finally the time after his biggest Hollywood successes.

Sirk is a tremendously important cinema director, and the interviews give a lot of clarity to his history and how he went about choosing the subject matter that he did. Halliday also provides a brief biographical introduction and a biofilmography and Sirk bibliography. A must-have for cinephiles and fans of Douglas Sirk.

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Summary: A GOOD BOOK BUT IT NEEDS MORE ...
Review: The book is good, but I would have loved to have more in depth study. Perhaps some day the biography of this director will come