#allthatheavenallows

Join us for a tribute to Rock Hudson tonight at 7 with biographer Mark Griffin (All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rick Hudson—just out in paperback!) & Steve Hayes (Tired Old Queen at The Movies)! @bgsqd #rockhudson #allthatheavenallows #tiredoldqueenatthemovies (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5s-azPFObC/?igshid=16vczlg5n5l3g

All That Heaven Allows

Douglas Sirk - All That Heaven Allows (1955) At first sight this might seem like a melodramatic film version of a Harlequin romance novel. A mere escapist fantasy for suburban housewives, who being widowed and growing older gets a whirlwind romance with the very attractive gardner and lives happily ever after. And the film is undoubtedly that, but it is also so much more. Firstly it's a beautiful film, with great lighting and direction and a truly charismatic leading man in Rock Hudson. It is also a really strong indictment of the ideals of 1950s US society. The escapism in the film is not only sexual, it is over all social, this is a middle-class woman caught up in the rat-race of keeping up with her neighbors, of going to the cocktail parties full of dull women and misogynist and frankly rapey men. Her break from that life is a break with what women were expected to do, Rock Hudson isn't only a gardner, he is also a misfit, a reader of American Transcendentalist literature, an embodiment of Walden. His friends are artists, fishemen, immigrants, weirdos and marginalised people who are good people too. More than most films this romantic "chick-flick" demonstrates the discontentment with the "American Dream" with having to show that you are living the dream more so than your neighbor, the endless competition and poisonous fake society that arises from it. A film that in spite of being a romantic escapist fantasy is also finding common ground with transcendentalists a century earlier, beatniks in the 50s and hippies a decade later. An insidious masterpiece. (4/5) #cinema #cinephile #allthatheavenallows #douglassirk #rockhudson #comedy #movie #moviereview #film #filmreviews #review #janewyman #1950s #poster #filmposter #movieposter #romance (at Lisbon, Portugal) https://www.instagram.com/p/ByrTrqaltAO/?igshid=4gscfzy1382o

@UniversalPics moving ahead with its #RockHudson biopic #AllThatHeavenAllows, is in talks with Richard LaGravenese to write the screenplay. The studio bought the movie rights last year to Mark Griffin’s “All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson.” https://buff.ly/2tQoXDh https://www.instagram.com/pinksixty360/p/BurfSPhFk3A/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1qp65ovvwinxh

New in bio/memoir: All That Heaven Allows: A Biography of Rock Hudson, by Mark Griffin, and Thomas Page McBee’s Amateur: A True Story about What Makes a Man. #rockhudson #allthatheavenallows @thomaspagemcbee (at Bureau of General Services-Queer Division) https://www.instagram.com/p/BsjOUwFl1Xx/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iorrn9s4riy8

Comme à chaque période de Noël, le plaisir de revoir mon film préféré....encore et encore....#allthatheavenallows #oldhollywood #rockhudson #janewyman #douglassirk https://www.instagram.com/p/BrsW1FLn-Yh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=cqaw102bj7fy

#RockHudsonGoesToHeaven. (1925-1985) #FilmIcon. Born #RoyHaroldScherer in #WinnetkaIllinois. #Giant, #PillowTalk, #AllThatHeavenAllows #ComeSeptember #LoverComeBack. #WrittenOnTheWind, #MagnificentObsession. #IceStationZebra. (PartialFilmList). (at Holywood)

Saw this at #TCMFF 2016. Oh deer! ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS, today at 2:15 PM on #TCM. #AllThatHeavenAllows #Sirk