Collections/March 2025

Douglas Sirk Noir

Though best known today for his scorching 1950s melodramas, Douglas Sirk’s subversive sensibility and powers as a baroque visual stylist also served him well in the sinister world of noir. Trading lavish Technicolor for deep, black-and-white expressionist shadows, this trio of atmospheric thrillers—the fog-shrouded, London-set gothic mystery Lured , starring Lucille Ball; the Samuel Fuller–penned couple-on-the-run pulp firecracker Shockproof ; and the Claudette Colbert–in-a-convent nun noir Thunder on the Hill —are among the oft-overlooked gems in a career full of them.

3 films — 0 on the Channel, 3 unavailable