Chelsea Classics Summer 2023

All That Heaven Allows: The Films Of Douglas Sirk There’s Always Tomorrow (Douglas Sirk, 1955, 85 min) Douglas Sirk is best known for his highly stylized Technicolor melodramas, but he also did superlative work in restrained black and white. There’s Always Tomorrow (1955) is a virtuoso study in tones, ranging from the blinding sunlight of a desert resort to the expressionist shadows of the suburban home where Fred MacMurray lives in unhappy union with Joan Bennett. Barbara Stanwyck is the old flame who turns up by accident, rekindling for MacMurray the dangerous illusion that happiness is still possible. With Pat Crowley and William Reynolds. (Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader)