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
Sirk is the one who established their tone, in which shocking behavior is treated with passionate solemnity, while parody burbles beneath.
— Douglas Sirk · Roger Ebert - Great Movies (Written on the Wind)
Films That Influenced Written on the Wind
