The podcast sensation You Must Remember This has revitalized Hollywood history, exploring the secret or forgotten histories of Tinseltown's first 100 years. This November, Film Streams is delighted to welcome to Omaha the show’s host, Karina Longworth, a former film journalist at publications including the Village Voice and LA Weekly who has authored books on George Lucas, Al Pacino and Meryl Streep.
Join us for a screening of the 1956 classic Written on the Wind. Then, stick around to hear Longworth discuss the film, Hollywood history, and the podcast’s latest season — "The Bisexuals," which explores the life of American actress Libby Holman.
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Film Information
The Technicolor expressionism of Douglas Sirk reached a fever pitch with this operatic tragedy, which finds the director pushing his florid visuals and his critiques of American culture to their subversive extremes. Featuring an unforgettably debauched, Oscar-winning supporting performance by Dorothy Malone and some of Sirk’s most eye-popping mise-en-scène, Written on the Wind is as perverse a family portrait as has ever been splashed across the screen.
Alcoholism, nymphomania, impotence, and deadly jealousy—these are just some of the toxins coursing through a massively wealthy, degenerate Texan oil family. When a sensible secretary (Lauren Bacall) has the misfortune of marrying the clan’s neurotic scion (Robert Stack), it drives a wedge between him and his lifelong best friend (Rock Hudson) that unleashes a maelstrom of psychosexual angst and fury.
Reviews
"Dripping with irony, Written on the Wind is more than Douglas Sirk’s assessment of an impotent class of moneyed folk. Viewers considering only the plot may indeed reduce the film to a collection of melodrama’s most conventional stereotypes. But viewers peering into the production’s mode of description, Sirk’s simultaneous appreciation and parody of his narrative, and the complication of the auteur’s mise en scène, will find something singularly enjoyable on the most primal, yet artistically sophisticated levels." – Deep Focus Review
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