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This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow (Magnificent Obsession's Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty (Spartacus), Sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. a profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural sound-track
- Audio commentary featuring film scholars John
- Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
- Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), a ground-breaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
- French television interview with director Douglas Sirk from 1982
- Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
- Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who co-starred in three Sirk films, including All That
- Heaven Allows
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay on Sirk by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder​
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 89 mins approx
- Douglas Kirk
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This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk (Written on the Wind) follows the blossoming love between a well-off suburban widow (Magnificent Obsession's Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). After their romance prompts the scorn of her selfish children and snooty country club friends, she must decide whether to pursue her own happiness or carry on a lonely, hemmed-in existence for the sake of the approval of others.
With the help of ace cinematographer Russell Metty (Spartacus), Sirk imbued nearly every shot with a vivid and distinct emotional tenor. a profoundly felt film about class and conformity in small-town America, All That Heaven Allows is a pinnacle of expressionistic Hollywood melodrama.
- 2K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural sound-track
- Audio commentary featuring film scholars John
- Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald
- Rock Hudson's Home Movies (1992), a ground-breaking essay film about the actor by Mark Rappaport
- French television interview with director Douglas Sirk from 1982
- Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the director
- Contract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who co-starred in three Sirk films, including All That
- Heaven Allows
- Trailer
- PLUS: A booklet featuring an essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay on Sirk by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder​
- THE CRITERION COLLECTION
- 89 mins approx
- Douglas Kirk
- 12
- 1
- B
- CRITERION COLLECTION
Frequently Bought Together
+
Total Price: £48.98
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Douglas Sirk Classic and Then Some
Criterion once again demonstrates why its reputation for boutique film releases is so formidable. All That Heaven Allows is a classic of American cinema and the work of a director with a singular vision. The supplementary materials on the disc are superb.
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