ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS in 35mm

Oh, how the malicious gossip spreads in the leafy and idyllic suburb of Stonington. A widower (the incredible Jane Wyman) touches off a scandal by engaging in an affair with her younger gardener (Rock Hudson), and finds herself having to choose between following her heart (and the silver-tipped spruce) and following the unspoken societal rules of the town. In one of his most staggeringly warm and beautiful melodramas, Douglas Sirk makes full effect of the intense primary colors of the 3-strip Technicolor process in a way rarely equaled in a typical “studio programmer”. Director Todd Haynes would go on to remake ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS – by way of a little twist of Fassbinder – for his 2002 masterpiece, FAR FROM HEAVEN.  
As with our screening of WRITTEN ON THE WIND, tonight’s possibly one-of-a-kind Technicolor 35mm print of ALL THAT HEAVEN ALLOWS is being loaned to us through the generosity of a private collector.  
Peter Conheim will host the event and director Todd Haynes (FAR FROM HEAVEN, CAROL, VELVET GOLDMINE) will introduce each screening.     Cinema Preservation Alliance is the project of Peter Conheim, a film and media archivist and restorationist living in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to the many independent film preservations he has helmed, many of which may be viewed at byNWR.com, he is a musician and co-founder of groups Mono Pause and Wet Gate, plays with Malcolm Mooney (of CAN) and The Mutants, and was a primary member of the mixed-media group Negativland for 20 years.