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All That Heaven Allows. 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 ...
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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...
Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allowsgets an impressive and significant upgrade over Criterion’s previous DVD release with a new dual-format edition. The Blu-ray presents the film with a new 1080p/24hz high-definition transfer while the first dual-layer DVD presents a standard-definition version of the same transfer. Criterion’s notes indicate the ...
The film’s mono soundtrack comes in lossless linear PCM 1.0 on the Blu-ray and Dolby Digital 1.0 on the DVD. Though fidelity is limited the track still does a wonderful job handling the film’s score, which of course swells up during all of the emotional scenes providing superb range and a decent amount of balance, delivered with only the slightest ...
This new edition gets a fairly extensive upgrade in supplements in comparison to the previous fairly light DVD edition, carrying over most of the material found on that DVD. The first big upgrade is a new audio commentaryfeaturing film scholars John Mercer and Tamar Jeffers-McDonald. It’s an enjoyable enough track, talking about the film’s criticis...
A stunning upgrade all-around, from it’s gorgeous transfer to entertaining supplements, this new edition of All That Heaven Allowscomes with a very high recommendation. BUY AT:
All That Heaven Allows is a 1955 American drama romance film directed by Douglas Sirk, produced by Ross Hunter, and adapted by Peg Fenwick from a novel by Edna L. Lee and Harry Lee. It stars Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson in a tale about the social complications that arise following the development of a romance between a well-to-do widow and a ...
Jun 10, 2014 · When All That Heaven Allows was released by Universal Pictures in 1955, it was just another critically unnoticed Hollywood genre product, designed to appeal to the trashy “women’s weepie” audience. Now, in retrospect, it is considered to be closer to the art side of Sirk’s dialectic, and one of his key films.
Jun 10, 2014 · Directed by: Douglas Sirk. Featuring: Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel, Virginia Grey, Gloria Talbot, William Reynolds, Charles Drake, Hayden Rorke, Jacqueline de Wit, Leigh Snowden, Donald Curtis, Alex Gerry, Nestor Paiva. This heartbreakingly beautiful indictment of 1950s American mores by Douglas Sirk follows the ...
All That Heaven Allows: Directed by Douglas Sirk. With Jane Wyman, Rock Hudson, Agnes Moorehead, Conrad Nagel. An upper-class widow falls in love with a much younger, down-to-earth nurseryman, much to the disapproval of her children and criticism of her country club peers.
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Every Tuesday I’m going to try and post a Criterion movie on here to discuss. I am going to go in order of spine release and would love to hear from people who have already seen it or are curious to see it. This week is Spine #95, All That Heaven Allows. As of April 4th, 2023 it is unavailable to stream on the Channel, has a DVD and Blu-ray ...
