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Perspectives on the American Family: Allison Anders on Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow

Indie icon Allison Anders, director of such films as BORDER RADIO, MI VIDA LOCA and GRACE OF MY HEART, explains why Douglas Sirk’s fifties melodramas, or »women’s pictures«, had such a big influence on her own female-oriented work and compares Sirk’s portrayals of American family life to that in films by Wim Wenders such as PARIS, TEXAS.

Germany/France 2008 · Written and directed by Robert Fischer · Camera and editing: Robert Fischer · Sound: Françoise Ettel · Production manager: Joan Cohen (Los Angeles), Françoise Ettel (Munich) · Produced by Robert Fischer and Vincent Paul-Boncour · With Allison Anders · A Fiction Factory (Munich) and Allerton Films (Paris) Co-Production · Running time: 25 minutes

PUBLISHED ON THE FOLLOWING DVDS:

Coffret Douglas Sirk, Partie 2
Demain est un autre jour
Douglas Sirk: King of Hollywood Melodrama
There’s Always Tomorrow (AUS)