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Felicia is joined by Jane Waldner to discuss the underlying feminist and queer themes in Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows (1955). We chat about the tropes in so-called women’s pictures and how Sirk takes those concepts and elevates them into high art. Send us your thoughts on the episode by sending us a message on any of our social platforms or by email: seeingfacesinmovies@gmail.com Listen to our previous episodes: Faces Place (Agnès Varda & J.R. 2017) Funny Games (Michael Haneke 1997 & 2007) Sources: Sirk, D., & Halliday, J. (2018). Sirk on sirk: Conversations with Jon Halliday. Bloomsbury Publishing. https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/96-all-that-heaven-allows-an-articulate-screen https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/3200-jane-wyman-and-all-that-heaven-allows https://hollywoodsuite.ca/all-that-heaven-allows-1955-melodrama-as-cultural-critique/ https://medium.com/feverdreams/beneath-the-surface-all-that-heaven-allows-1955-7ef8a3f0f0a7 https://cinema-cities.com/2016/06/17/falling-for-rock-hudson-in-all-that-heaven-allows-1955/ https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2005/feature-articles/sirk-2/ Outro Song: Main Theme in All That Heaven Allows by Frank Skinner Films Mentioned: Faces Places (Agnès Varda & J.R. 2017) Funny Games (Michael Haneke 1997 & 2007) Imitation of Life (Douglas Sirk 1959) One Battle After Another (Paul Thomas Anderson 2025) 10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger 1999) Blue Velvet (David Lynch 1986) Polyester (John Waters 1981) The Graduate (Mike Nichols 1967) Sorry, Baby (Eva Victor 2025) The Tarnished Angels (Douglas Sirk 1957) Licorice Pizza (Paul Thomas Anderson 2021) Ali: Fear Eats The Soul (Rainer Werner Fassbinder 1974) Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton 1990) Listen to full episode :