All That Heaven Allows, dir. Douglas Sirk, 1955 (Criterion dvd #95, 2001)

Description: Very good condition. One owner, one viewer. No scratches. Includes book and a catalog of The Criterion Collection, circa 2001. This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the blossoming love between a well-off widow (Jane Wyman) and her handsome and earthy younger gardener (Rock Hudson). When their romance prompts the scorn of her children and 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, Sirk imbues 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. DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES2K digital restorationAudio commentary featuring film scholars John Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonaldRock Hudson’s Home Movies (1992), a groundbreaking essay film about the actor by Mark RappaportFrench television interview with director Douglas Sirk from 1982Excerpts from Behind the Mirror: A Profile of Douglas Sirk, a 1979 BBC documentary featuring rare interview footage with the directorContract Kid: William Reynolds on Douglas Sirk, a 2007 interview with the actor, who costarred in three Sirk films, including All That Heaven AllowsTrailerEnglish subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearingAn essay by film scholar Laura Mulvey and an excerpt from a 1971 essay on Sirk by filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder

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