Oct 14, 2019
We follow up last week’s selection with one of the Hollywood classics that inspired it. Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows melodrama challenges conservative America’s expectations of age, class, and femininity as it follows an unconventional romance set against a backdrop of a quaint New England community. Lauded as one of the paragon’s of the so-called “women’s films” of mid-century studio pictures, Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson portray the star-crossed lovers that must navigate the obstacles of selfish children, town gossips, country club leches, and cruel dramatic irony in the form of a snow-crested cliff.
If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Spencer Gordon Bennett’s The Atomic Submarine (1959).