His great influence, he said, was the German director Douglas Sirk, who fled Hitler and in Hollywood made a series of silky melodramas ('Imitation of Life,' 'Written on the Wind,' 'All That Heaven Allows')...Fassbinder's later films looked like elegant studio productions
His great influence, he said, was the German director Douglas Sirk, who fled Hitler and in Hollywood made a series of silky melodramas ('Imitation of Life,' 'Written on the Wind,' 'All That Heaven Allows').
— Rainer Werner Fassbinder · Roger Ebert - Great Movies (The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Films That Influenced Imitation of Life
