Written on the Wind

every single person in this movie wakes up in the morning and says “what’s the most dramatic thing i can get away with today?”

eely

It struck me while watching this that the homophobic nature of Hollywood/the explicit homophobia of the Hays Code that forced directors to turn queer characters into mere subtext had the unintended effect of turning every close male friendship into a gay relationship in…

Sally Jane Black

NOW IN TECHNICOLOR: I’M ALWAYS MAD AT MY ONE FRIEND

fran hoepfner

just a dude losing his mind thinking about his best friend's robust sperm count, nothing to see here!

Meaghan 🦤

One of the major Sirks for good reason, starting with an almost surrealist beginning and ending with the leaves blowing their way into the house—you can almost feel like it’s the wind pulling the trigger. Classic Sirkian narrative—insiders vs. outsiders, public display vs.…

Peter Labuza

85 The easy way out with Written on the Wind, or with any Sirk film, really, is to give in to its camp, to fall head over heels in love with its absurd flourishes and soap opera artifice. But the confines of this upper-class story is less of a stylistic choice than it is…

SilentDawn

PARDON ME if i seem to be brushing you out of my hair  35mm. MoMA.

KYK

tag yourself, I'm Dorothy Malone dancing around in her room as her father dies falling down the stairs outside

Kyle Turner

Some critics talk about Written on the Wind as if it were a realistic film. No, it’s even a kind of surrealism. The people are heightened versions of reality—not realistic characters. [Laughs] A European would say, “Strange people these Americans”—if he took it as…

Bruno Andrade