| 单词 | melodrama |
| 例句 | At least someone is amused by my mother’s melodrama. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The rest were there to participate in the great melodrama of social climbing and career advancement. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The thing is, Mom hasn’t even reached peak melodrama yet. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He and the other students watched eagerly as accounts of one gruesome murder after another passed over the tiny VCR screen, accompanied by the hushed melodrama of Geraldo Rivera. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t wish to reach for melodrama, but people have died in less trying circumstances. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Spare us all the melodrama, Faraday. This is, after all, the consequence of your decision to take on two apprentices when one would have been sufficient.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z I’m tired of this melodrama, I’m tired of keeping silent. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Trials of Arabella may have been a melodrama, but its author had yet to hear the term. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It’s no credit to me or Aunt Loma that we were enjoying our roles in this melodrama. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z But I have had enough melodrama in this life, and would willingly give my five senses if they could ensure us our present peace and security. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He quirks his eyebrows and adds, with a touch of melodrama, “To decide our fate.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z Shawn and I auditioned for a melodrama at Worm Creek. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Maybe it would just be melodrama, a skin-deep slash or two, her old theatricality; though perhaps theatrical people are not less risky, but more. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Thunder and heavy rain filled the air, punctuated by inhuman shrieks emanating from a recording of a grisly French melodrama being played for a French class on a nearby balcony. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If I ever direct a retro-Bollywood melodrama, my mother will be the star. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z What Adams called a romance was actually a melodrama. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And my dad would sometimes shake his head at her melodrama and other times would just stay quiet, like he’d fallen into the haze of a particular memory himself. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Her temper had not diminished with the passing of time, and when a passionate nature is not eased with moments of compassion, melodrama is likely to take the stage. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z This family story makes such terrific melodrama that it seems reasonable to wonder whether it actually happened. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I doubt whether any hack, under pressure, could pen such atrocious melodrama,” Ignatius observed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z At the California Labor School a forceful and perceptive teacher quickly and unceremoniously separated me from melodrama. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, I had no idea how much people in the thirties liked melodrama. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z After an exhausting hour or so of this melodrama, v.L. took a break and sauntered over to have a chat with me. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z However, with my mother acting as director, the inherent tragedy would soon become melodrama. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Godard revives his love of American genre movies, staging both a bank-robbery and a kidnapping — while riffing on the forbidden romance of old Hollywood melodramas. 9 Great Godard Films to Stream Now 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Rule of thumb: more or less any premise is good for a film, and the supreme Hollywood master of melodrama, Douglas Sirk, was also the king of the ridiculous. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z There are villains, a few lines of action, the usual cliffhangers, some getaways and dashes of family melodrama. Review: ‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Save the World! With Jokes! 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Cheap comic melodramas were the norm in the 1960s and 1970s. Israeli film industry is a surprising powerhouse 2012-01-27T12:14:20Z But melodrama represents only a part of Sirk’s work, and not necessarily the most personal. DVDs: Douglas Sirk Without Tears 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z But what at first seems like a knack for visual economy just turns into a handicap, as Mr. Rauniyar lets his stories dribble into rote melodrama, not helped by improvised dialogue. Movie Review: ‘Highway,’ Directed by Deepak Rauniyar 2013-04-26T01:34:44Z The third act is a melodrama worthy of De Sica’s “Sunflower,” as the characters face their destiny 10 months after we first met them. Review: From Last Rites to Marriage Vows in ‘Filomena Marturano’ 2019-08-06T04:00:00Z This suspenseful melodrama is among the most popular series on Acorn TV. What’s on TV Monday: ‘Adventure Time’ and ‘RBG’ 2018-09-03T04:00:00Z In the various versions of “A Star Is Born,” the husband assumes this victim role, a figure that Cooper — who also directed — exalts by turning a romantic melodrama into a male weepie. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z James Brining's production reminds you that, for all its throat-slashing gore, Sweeney Todd owes as much to the arc of Greek and Shakespearean tragedy as it does to Victorian melodrama. Sweeney Todd 2010-05-26T20:45:00Z They attracted new audiences from a population of some 200 million who grew up on the music and theatrics of Carnival and the melodrama of telenovelas. Broadway Musicals, Big Draw in Brazil for a Decade, Lose Their Audience 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z Some moody Nelson Riddle-style string arrangements — like the scoring of a Douglas Sirk melodrama — nodded to what came before intermission: the premiere of Joel Thompson’s “The Places We Leave.” Review: Philip Glass and the Bangles, Mashed at the Symphony 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z It felt like a documentary in its attention to routine and like a melodrama in the way it galvanized currents of feeling. Review: ‘BPM (Beats Per Minute)’ Captures the Fierce AIDS Fight 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It's not a perfect series; themes like racism, queerness and identity sometimes get muddled amid the more soapy bits of melodrama. Netflix's "Tiny Pretty Things" challenges the idea that bulimia is only a white woman's disease 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z I have called the film a fairy tale but you could also describe it as a horror movie, a quasi-western and a revenge melodrama, perhaps too many things at once. Review: ‘The Beguiled,’ Sofia Coppola’s Civil War Cocoon 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z And the rest of the episode dives back into the rich current of melodrama that is, you have to assume, mostly responsible for the show’s ratings. ‘Empire’ Returns for Its Second Season, Still Juicy With Melodrama 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z “Race in America is not a question of melodrama. It’s a question of drama, which is to say complicated issues that are hard to understand.” Will a New Play Restart a Fire? 2019-01-23T05:00:00Z The pristine adaptation streaming on Disney+ is a melodrama in need of rougher edges. ‘Black Beauty’ Review: A Melodrama in Need of Rougher Edges 2020-11-27T05:00:00Z He added: “I don’t have to look very far for melodrama. It’s all right there.” Pat Conroy, Author of ‘The Prince of Tides’ and ‘The Great Santini,’ Dies at 70 2016-03-05T05:00:00Z Or at least her character, as conceived, is so innocent that she doesn’t seem fully aware of the melodramas swirling around her. Movie Review: Movie Review: ‘Sparkle,’ With Whitney Houston and Jordin Sparks 2012-08-17T15:03:02Z Weaver’s work in series has been sparse and unpredictable; getting to spend seven episodes with her is the icing on the melodrama. ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ Review: The Right Kind of Melodrama 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z It’s a little of both, in truth, with some family melodrama and sweet romance thrown in. Review: In ‘The Meddler,’ a Yakkety Mom Comes of (a Certain) Age 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z “The Devil’s Needle” is certainly preachy, but unlike so many later addiction melodramas it doesn’t feel the need to sacrifice its characters — there are happy endings to be had for everyone but the drug merchants. DVD: New DVDs: ‘Midsomer Murders,’ ‘George Gently’ 2012-06-29T21:58:00Z There is plenty of melodrama, though, and more than a touch of film noir. Review: ‘Carol’ Explores the Sweet Science of Magnetism 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z Now, though, Cooper goes in for the emotional kill, cutting to Jack and Ally alone in their woodsy idyll, a paradise that’s worthy of a Douglas Sirk melodrama. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z In “Black Swan,” Tchaikovsky delivers the extravagant melodrama that is the film’s entire reason for being, whereas here his lush, emotive orchestration emphasizes the utter absence of such wanton emotionalism. | 'Of Gods and Men': Between Heaven and Earth 2011-02-24T22:55:48Z Warren uses an assured hand in treating the family melodrama with the tenderness of a tone poem. ‘Bruiser’ Review: Of Fathers and Fractures 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z The mark of history in melodrama is Téchiné’s longtime specialty, and he narrowly misses the chance to locate the tale of Agnelet and the Le Roux family in its historical moment. “Pitch Perfect 2,” and Two Other Movies About Money 2015-05-15T04:00:00Z Here, examining white-collar criminality and rich-white-lady problems, it wraps raw nerves in layers of camp, to produce both a cautionary tale about entitlement and a Schadenfreude melodrama. A Lifetime Movie Nails the College-Admissions Scandal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The melodrama "Deception" ranked 46th place, while sitcom "1600 Penn" debuted in 80th place. CBS scores big weekly win in prime-time TV ratings 2013-01-15T23:46:03Z Carol” Like “Brooklyn,” this portrait of a shop girl in 1950s New York is suffused with the production values and visual grammar of a delicious melodrama of the era. The best movies of 2015: ‘Spotlight,’ ‘Love & Mercy,’ ‘Creed’ make the top 10 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The prevailing laws of melodrama permitted the character two options: death or reconciliation. Ibsen's radical 1879 play about women's equality gets a 2017 sequel: Lucas Hnath's 'A Doll's House, Part 2' 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z Meanwhile, “All That Heaven Allows” and “Imitation of Life” embedded timely critiques of middle-class snobbery and the pyschic wounds of racism within the soapy conventions of domestic melodrama. Perspective | ‘Get Out’ shows how genre can address serious issues. Why can’t serious drama? 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z TV historian Stephen Bowie wrote in his “Classic TV History” blog that Mr. Grauman’s work on the series marked its “transformation from a simplistic cops-and-robbers shoot-’em-up into a richer, more character-driven melodrama.” Walter Grauman, prolific television director, dies at 93 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z But purling reserve was less successful in conveying the melodrama of Brahms's youth or, indeed, the torrent of feeling that is Ludwig van Beethoven. Andsnes adds a bit of emotion to his repertoire 2011-04-04T17:07:00Z So many of the incidents in the film, directed by Marius Holst, are familiar from prison and boys’-school melodramas that “King of Devil’s Island” risks seeming like a rehash. | 'King of Devil?s Island': Stellan Skarsgard in ?King of Devil?s Island? - Review 2011-11-17T22:54:18Z There is guile and nuance in these songs, but also a florid, wailing melodrama capable of turning skeptics into addicts. | 'Passione': Soaring From Poverty All the Way to Ecstasy 2011-06-21T22:19:30Z Brimming with unforgettable one-liners and references to Hollywood melodramas and horror stories, “The Drag Seed” showcases the high camp that Cerda and company have undisputably mastered. 5 Things to Do This Weekend 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z Is “Philadelphia” a classic melodrama or bold, timely polemic? Perspective | Jonathan Demme, the last of the great journeyman directors 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z And while it’s true that her story lines often have the whiff of melodrama, Scottoline knows her audience. In ‘Betrayed,’ Lisa Scottoline has created a modern Nancy Drew Unlike TV fictionalisations there's no melodrama, just a calm professionalism from the doctors and nurses, and the patients' stories are more intense for being genuine. TV highlights 20/06/2012 2012-06-19T18:59:01Z What this series does best, however, is gently and mindfully tug at our heartstrings without overdoing the melodrama. Smart Watch: Top TV picks this week include “Orange Is the New Black” and the “Pose” finale 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z "Realism," Ochoa shakily claims, "took hold in art and literature by the mid-1900s" — a half-century after Strindberg, Ibsen and Chekhov liberated the theater from melodrama. 'Stella!' is a backstage portrait of acting guru Stella Adler 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z An early review was for “Spencer’s Mountain,” a sentimental family melodrama starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O’Hara. Film Critic Judith Crist Dies at 90 2012-08-07T22:17:28Z The movie ends just when complications start to set in, which makes you wonder how invested Allen really is in the little melodramas within this comedy. "Dark Stranger" a serviceable Woody Allen comedy 2010-05-17T04:43:00Z Throughout middle and high school, Escoffery tagged along to parties with his older brother, where scenes of teenage melodrama honed his eye for detail. Jonathan Escoffery Has a Reality He’d Like to Share 2022-09-04T04:00:00Z Later in the ’50s she drifted into mediocre melodramas and even a western. Lizabeth Scott, Film Noir Siren, Dies at 92 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z A gripping feature film scattered among the documentaries and set in Haiti a few years ago, Raoul Peck’s “Moloch Tropical” is a satirically edged melodrama about the corruption of absolute power. Film: Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center 2010-06-11T04:51:00Z But melodrama is the metabolic right of people nearing the ends of their adolescence, which seems to extend beyond 30 these days. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Imagination From Despair in Ednburgh and Minsk 2012-06-18T19:49:07Z The story, set against the backdrop of warring royal houses in 13th-century Sicily, is a melodrama of the type Bellini’s audiences savored. Review: A Soaring Soprano Helps Bel Canto at Caramoor Say Farewell 2017-07-09T04:00:00Z No melodrama, no great claims of world-historical significance: just the daily business of trying to get ahead and do what’s right. | 'Win Win': Riding the Wave of Life?s Indignities 2011-03-17T23:03:24Z Advertisement Advertisement Still, the ripeness and sureness of the melodrama are what makes “Empire” fun. ‘Empire’ Returns for Its Second Season, Still Juicy With Melodrama 2015-09-22T04:00:00Z The action, and the elements of mystery that accompany it, don’t really make up for the insipidity of the melodrama. ‘The Time Traveler’s Wife’ Review: Making the Leap, Again 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z An amalgam of the above genres salted with heavy under- currents of emotional melodrama is what usually defines traditional Bollywood epics, and "Kites" pulls no punches in its histrionic story of love and revenge. 'Kites': a star-crossed love story, Bollywood style 2010-05-20T20:10:00Z They're gloopy, cynically manipulative melodramas in which a boy falls in love with a girl and then someone dies, and they are bad. What we want from Hollywood in 2011 2010-12-23T22:00:01Z It’s a dangerous line to insert into such a tedious work, where the subject matter, which hints at the freedom and danger of taking flight, slips into melodrama, with couples bickering. Dance Review: Tiffany Mills Dance Company at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-06-04T22:11:54Z Polley masterfully takes what could have been a weepy melodrama or a scolding screed and turns it into a nuanced and probing meditation on what it truly means to be faithful. ‘Black Bear,’ ‘Sharp Stick’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-02-20T05:00:00Z CANNES, France — James Gray's sincere melodrama "The Immigrant" has divided the Cannes Film Festival not for its politics or its audaciousness, but for its sentimentality. Cannes: 'The Immigrant' stirs emotional response 2013-05-25T21:43:18Z With hints of “The Wire” and traditional Mafia melodrama, “the combination is handled so adroitly that the show sucks you in,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Gomorrah’ and ‘Cleveland Hustles’ 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z Certainly minimalism is preferable to melodrama in telling this kind of story, but Haneke takes this approach to such an extreme that it's often hard to maintain emotional engagement. Review: `Amour' delicately depicts difficult topic 2012-12-17T21:00:16Z The word melodrama has become code for something the art-house crowd will despise. Tilda Swinton and Luca Guadagnino?s Film Partnership 2010-06-12T03:44:00Z Occasionally, and perhaps in an effort to avoid melodrama, the story feints away from emotional climaxes by leaping great expanses of time, which deflates some of the novel’s tension. Review | Eman Quotah’s engrossing debut, ‘Bride of the Sea,’ offers Americans a nuanced view of the Saudi Kingdom 2021-02-01T05:00:00Z The point is simple: while taking the step from the ridiculous to the sublime, the best melodramas haven’t yet lifted the back foot. Two French Melodramas: “3 Hearts” and “Villa Amalia” 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Reissue for Rossellini's superb, highly influential movie, fusing marital melodrama with real locations to stirring effect. Star Trek Into Darkness, Mud, A Hijacking: this week's new films 2013-05-11T05:00:12Z The moment Clay asserts his agency and tries to exit their racial melodrama, Lula delivers a fatal blow, only to restart her homicidal cycle with another unsuspecting black man. ‘Fairview’: Watching a Play in Black and White 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z OK, hundreds of movies, books, plays and novels have fictionalized the Final Solution for purposes of melodrama. A Failing Grade to X-Men: First Class 2011-06-02T17:35:00Z Things started off with such promise this week before lapsing into self-parody at the very end, concluding with the sort of overwrought melodrama a “Thrones” detractor might assume is typical of the series. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Watch: Arguments in Family Court 2014-05-12T03:53:49Z Even in the happiest moments, Ms. Lavin resisted sentimentality or melodrama, trusting that the material and her intelligent, matter-of-fact interpretations would convey a hard-won joyfulness. Review: Linda Lavin, Scratching Out Fresh Starts, at 54 Below 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z In the colorful melodrama “The Sky Is Pink,” a teenager tells the story of her family’s care and sacrifices from an unusual vantage point. ‘The Sky Is Pink’ Review: A Story Told From the Grave 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Variety said the film was “a gorgeous melodrama about women whose independence of mind remains undiminished”, rendered in “lustrous textures, boldly saturated colors and lush sounds.” Cannes prize for Brazilian movie sends message of hope, director says 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z Some “nicely played home-front melodrama” makes the film “genuinely more ambitious than most works of this kind.” What’s on TV Saturday 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Dan Crane portrays Thrasymachus, the king’s son, as a scheming villain worthy of melodrama, but, then, the role is written in that vein. A bold production of ‘Phaeton’ from Taffety Punk Theatre Company 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z No matter who dances it, this solo is 80 percent melodrama. Mariinsky Ballet’s ‘Rite of Spring’ at Kennedy Center is authentically Russian 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z That album was great for its deathly serious melodrama, but Sucker is great because it takes nothing seriously. Review: Charli XCX's 'Sucker' Outdoes Her Peers 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z All that gothic melodrama squeezed some of the fun out of “Mad Men.” The TV Watch: Don Draper and Associates Wrap Up Season 6 2013-06-24T16:26:28Z "In the hands of `Shine' director Scott Hicks, it does what it needs to do to please its target audience with a certain tasteful artfulness and the comforting familiarity of a 1950s melodrama," she wrote. Movie Scores: How the critics rated the new movies 2012-04-21T02:16:04Z Thou may differ, but where Hemingway’s later novels seem, to me, freighted with melodrama and distracting verbal tics, “The Sun Also Rises” whispers its chilly despair with unruffled grace. Perspective | On Hemingway and the ideal of masculinity 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z What we said: Beast is a title which might appear to promise horror or melodrama and there is a little of both. Best films of 2018 so far 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z We were conscious throughout of the symphony's origins in the sensibilities of Gothic melodrama, but not always aware of its power to transcend them. LSO/Roth ? review 2011-01-09T21:45:00Z Mostly, the show is exactly what it sounds like: a hospital melodrama, with whiz-bang medical science, a dash of intra-staff romance and shameless sentimentality. On ‘The Good Doctor,’ the Anti-Antihero Is In 2017-11-12T05:00:00Z “The Skeleton Twins” is a well-written and acted movie about contemporary life that doesn’t strain for melodrama and is largely devoid of weepy soap opera theatrics. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader Star in ‘The Skeleton Twins’ 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z As it is, it sometimes slips into melodrama, but the lapses pass quickly. Review: In ‘Vida,’ Home Is Where the Gentrification Is 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z There’s a lot going on in the first season; like many teen dramas, “David” sometimes spins into melodrama in order to fuel the plot. ‘David Makes Man’ and the Matters of a Young Black Life 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z The Folger rarely has living writers on site, so Griffin gave Rebeck — who has a PhD in Victorian melodrama — a tour of the rare material in the Shakespeare library’s vaults. ‘Smash’ writer Rebeck brings a new ‘Way of the World’ to D.C. 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Otherwise, apart from David Alan Grier's smooth, crackling Sporting Life, this is a deflation of an epic work, marred by keyboard-heavy arrangements for a smaller orchestra, and a plot reduced to melodrama. Cue the 2012 Tony Awards, and a stripped-down Broadway season 2012-06-11T19:11:41Z As time passes, Rockwell plays with genre — the social-issue drama, the maternal melodrama — as well as with color, light and texture, variations that complement, and comment on, the changes happening outside Inez and Terry’s apartment. ‘A Thousand and One’ Review: A New York Love Story 2023-03-30T04:00:00Z Their garish melodramas and dark conspiracies have taken on the rosy glow of wishful thinking. Poking at Politics, Without a Stick, on Big and Small Screens 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z You may prefer the Barenboim version last week at the Proms but sometimes you just want the good old-fashioned blood-and-thunder melodrama. Sue Arnold's audiobook choice - review 2012-07-27T21:55:03Z Shirley MacLaine became such great friends with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin on the set of the 1958 melodrama "Some Came Running" that they made her a mascot of the Rat Pack. Shirley MacLaine still setting her own terms 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z At the center of each is a weepy young-adult melodrama, hidden inside a vampire show, a superhero show or a costume drama. Television Review: Girl Meets Alien in ‘Star Crossed’ on CW 2014-02-16T22:22:46Z The title track is also a new composition that turns Stirling’s instrument into an expressive vessel for wintry melodrama and childlike wonder. 15 Fresh Takes on a Classic Tradition: The Holiday Album 2022-12-08T05:00:00Z It sounds like it belongs in Victorian stage melodrama and that is mostly where it stayed. Five silent movie myths: from damsels in distress to Benny Hill chases 2016-02-08T05:00:00Z A Broadway hit in 1912, and adapted several times for the movies, this play by Bayard Veiller and revived by the Metropolitan Playhouse aspires to a Dickensian blend of melodrama and social justice. ‘Within the Law’ Is a Revival Focusing on Social Justice 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z “Hell, anyone with basic cable and the slightest interest in the melodrama of true crime knows it.” Murderous Husbands, Flapper-Era Gun Molls and Korean Assassins: The Best Winter Thrillers 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z As a director, Mr Luhrmann is more interested in melodrama and spectacle than drawing the audience in. All beat, no heart 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z But they are still tricky to bring off with a minimum of melodrama, and a balance of candor and sensitivity. ‘Joe Egg,’ ‘Next to Normal’ probe families on the edge 2013-02-14T22:47:16Z “The Get Down” is plagued by a undisciplined ambition to be every story — melodrama, history, romance, musical comedy, political intrigue. ‘The Get Down’ and ‘Stranger Things’ Feed Nostalgia With a Historical Remix 2016-08-28T04:00:00Z By crosscutting a crime of passion with a street singer’s performance, Renoir elevates tawdry melodrama to something operatic. ‘La Chienne’ and ‘A Married Woman’: The Better Half, in Dark Strokes 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z Now they've added violin and cello to their lineup and they're more of an indie chamber pop group, with a neat line in elegiac melodrama and camply overblown lyrics with the accent on narcissistic melancholia. New band of the day (Vlks No 1,485) 2013-04-04T14:04:35Z The armature is formulaic melodrama: the stories of three female Irish friends who are, as they say, caught up in events, witnesses to history, swept away on the tide of change. Review: ‘Rebellion’ Pits Soap Opera vs. Drama of the Easter Rising 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z McPherson is willfully recycling structures and stereotypes of Depression-era plays, blending the heightened naturalism of big-cast social melodramas like Clifford Odets’s “Awake and Sing” with the homespun eternity of Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” ‘Girl From the North Country’ Review: Bob Dylan’s Amazing Grace 2020-03-05T05:00:00Z A Nicholas Sparks movie is a romantic melodrama in which the road to enduring love is paved with complications, some preposterous, some life-threatening. Review: In ‘The Longest Ride,’ the Nicholas Sparks Brand Endures 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z But he found work as the stage manager of a Los Angeles staging of the melodrama “Rain,” directed by Charlie Chaplin. Marvin Kaplan, character actor who won laughs in ‘Adam’s Rib’ and ‘Alice,’ dies at 89 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z This wedding melodrama, in which generational and marital factions of a strife-torn family collide, seems acutely aware of its place in the lineage of a genre that it carries to a screeching decibel level. | 'Another Happy Day': Sam Levinson?s ?Another Happy Day? - Review 2011-11-17T22:41:13Z “TOUCH OF EVIL,” the Orson Welles movie that isn’t “Citizen Kane,” plays a bit like creaky melodrama these days, but partly that is because it’s often squeezed into a television screen. The Week Ahead 2012-03-09T19:52:13Z It's melodrama, and a lot of fun, a big boiling pot of hot, lusty power soup, with crunchy croutons of deceit and a generous sprinkling of revenge. The Politician's Husband – TV review 2013-04-26T06:00:11Z Perhaps the words "post-oedipal melodrama and jokes" wouldn't quite fit on the posters. Rufus Wainwright and Loudon Wainwright III ? review 2011-07-23T23:06:43Z But because it plays for drama – rather than laughs or the Jacobean melodrama of the Underwoods in House of Cards – Leoni’s made-up politician seems the portrayal most likely to help Hillary’s ambitions. What Hillary Clinton could learn from TV's women in power 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z Forget the melodrama of The Hurt Locker, this documentary lays bare the real work of an explosive ordnance disposal engineer. TV highlights 14/07/2011: Rick Stein's Spain 2011-07-13T20:59:01Z And not just because of all the melodrama — and there has been a staggering piling on of violent deaths and torrid affairs. The TV Watch: Still Fighting Fire With Fire to Honor the Fallen of 9/11 2011-07-12T21:24:39Z Nicholas Ray’s melodrama, from 1950, is one of the darkest, harshest, and most devastating love stories ever made. Movies 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z Q: I don't mean melodrama as a genre so much as an overly sentimental tone. Why ‘Beautiful Boy’ director Felix Van Groeningen is fascinated by the fragility of families 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z The unmistakable sounds of Philip Glass tell you right away that "Elena" is no ordinary Russian melodrama. 'Elena': Second wife plans sabotage in impressive Russian film noir 2012-07-12T18:14:03Z Castillo, a film critic, researcher and historian, said pre-revolutionary Cuban movies often took the form of comedies, musicals and melodramas, many inspired by theater traditions and radio soap operas. UCLA teams with Cuban film archive on Latin American cinema project 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z The film was in no way mawkish or manipulative, and for that we should thank whatever gods we need, because the last thing real drama wants is melodrama. Rewind TV: 7/7: One Day in London; Blackout; When I Get Older; Imagine: Graceland – review 2012-07-07T23:05:40Z Regardless of the true nature of their relationship, the two were very close, and that closeness is tangeible throughout the trio of psychological melodramas in they made together. Keanu and Winona 4ever: on-screen couples who keep getting back together 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z “Maps” is also, incidentally, the world’s first melodrama/Hollywood satire/supernatural horror/psychokiller movie. Cannes: Cronenberg's 'Maps to the Stars, a (sort-of) Hollywood satire 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z The great revelation here is that Mendelssohn's melodrama is distinctly un-melodramatic. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z What a brave and ambitious young French doctor discovers in a Polish convent in 1946, where many of the sisters are pregnant, is more than a melodrama of female suffering and solidarity. “The Innocents”: A powerful fable of rape and rebirth in a Polish convent 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z As a result, his ultra-low-budget drama matches up with Hollywood melodramas, beat for beat and twist for twist. The Front Row: “Uncertain Terms” 2017-04-03T04:00:00Z Titled Douglas Sirk in homage to the director whose melodramas favoured mirror images, it features a series of mirrored boxes, their surfaces silkscreened with pictures of fruit, toys and furniture. This week's new exhibitions 2010-10-01T23:06:00Z This simple, closely observed story — of a musician on the verge of divorce trying to find some connection to his estranged young daughter — certainly seems wired for melodrama. Movie Review: ‘For Ellen,’ Directed by So Yong Kim 2012-09-04T22:53:42Z However, the particular circumstances of that melodrama highlights just how played out the franchise is – especially now that it's contrasted with HBO Max's refreshing dating show alternative, "FBoy Island." The tired "Bachelor" franchise needs to step up or step aside for the likes of "FBoy Island" 2021-08-10T04:00:00Z Ellis was skeptical, afraid of the melodrama Lohan would bring to the project. Here Is What Happens When You Cast Lindsay Lohan in Your Movie 2013-01-13T17:37:08Z The question in the long run is what kind of balance “Nashville” will find between music and melodrama. Television Review: ‘Nashville,’ Starring Connie Britton, on ABC 2012-10-09T15:33:17Z Much as I applaud Sheader's desire to stake out new territory, there is something about the size of the arena that brings out the element of spectacular melodrama lurking within Miller's play. The Crucible 2010-06-03T20:30:00Z The film is a genre departure for the Spanish master of melodrama. Cannes turns to big stars, edgy auteurs 2011-05-08T23:02:44Z It is also a love story, a family melodrama and the chronicle of a close and complicated fraternal relationship. | 'The Fighter': Guys, Kiss Mom and Come Out Fighting 2010-12-09T22:56:00Z And yet, this week, did we see this weighty subplot leavened with a little melodrama, before its gravity took the whole show with it? ArtsBeat: ‘Downton Abbey’ Recap: A Warning From Mr. Bates 2014-01-27T03:00:44Z But West’s career didn’t take off until she began writing, producing and directing her own Broadway vehicles: lurid comic melodramas with attention-grabbing titles like “Pleasure Man,” “The Constant Sinner” and, simply and most memorably, “Sex.” Mae West Vamped and Winked. She Also Blazed a Trail We’re Still Following. 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z That means a one-year reprieve from the fire-breathing melodrama, with the guarantee that this year's top honoree will be a first-time winner. As Television Expands, the Emmys Are Becoming a Battlefield 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z This spring, “Champion,” a boxing melodrama by Terence Blanchard — who also composed “Fire Shut Up in My Bones,” which opened the Met’s 2021-22 season — was musically stilted and dramatically stodgy. Is It the End of an Era at the Metropolitan Opera? 2023-06-08T04:00:00Z Yet even the occasional lapse into subplot melodrama doesn’t violate the sanctity of the formula. The TV Watch: ?Law & Order?: Soon to Be Gone but Not Forgotten 2010-05-16T21:40:00Z The director of nearly 50 pictures — his most recent, the World War II melodrama “Postcard,” was released in 2010 — Mr. Shindo was the oldest active filmmaker in Japan. Kaneto Shindo, Filmmaker, Dies at 100 2012-06-01T15:03:10Z This will be quite an unusual cinematic event – you don't just tell an ordinary story, it's more of a first-person experience where the melodrama doesn't get in the way. The genius of Douglas Trumbull 2011-07-08T23:11:06Z “The tone — it’s really slippery, isn’t it?” the director says of the old melodrama, in a line you may think of later on. Kiss me again, and again, and again, and . . . 2015-12-08T05:00:00Z The mid-tempo highlight “Forgiveness” strikes a perfect balance between naturalistic sincerity and lavish melodrama. For the Gloriously Over-the-Top Rina Sawayama, Less Is Less 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z “It’s a newspaper comedy, a domestic melodrama, a gothic romance and a historical epic.” ArtsBeat: Critics' Picks Video: 'Citizen Kane' 2011-03-14T21:37:53Z What our critic said: “A baroque blend of gibberish, mysticism and melodrama, the film seems engineered to be as unmemorable as possible, with the exception of the prosthetic teeth worn by the lead actor.” How to Watch ‘Black Panther’ Free and Other Oscar Movie Tips 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z But how will this show’s melodrama and cynicism fare in a year when political strife seems baked into the daily news cycle? What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘House of Cards’ and ‘The Americans’ 2017-05-30T04:00:00Z “A melodrama in the morning, a historical drama in the afternoon, a comedy at night,” Mr. Paik said. Film: A Fine Balance: The Quiet Life of a Star Actress 2011-02-05T03:33:01Z But Taylor had to live her private life in the public eye and show the world that Hollywood was a romantic melodrama, onscreen and off. Elizabeth Taylor Dies at 79: Actress Defined Modern Fame 2011-04-14T08:35:00Z “American Idol” finally revealed this week the top two dozen contestants for the show’s eleventh season during three hours of reality television that, once again, seemed to focus less on performances than on melodrama. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Narrows the Field 2012-02-24T06:05:27Z It does a reasonable job of providing a nuanced view of events, the occasional swerve into melodrama notwithstanding. Review: ‘Allegiance,’ a Musical History Lesson About Interned Japanese-Americans 2015-11-08T05:00:00Z The premiere of this eight-episode legal thriller is remarkably free of cheap melodrama. ‘The Divide,’ a Drama Inspired by the Innocence Project 2014-07-15T04:00:00Z It’s also a melodrama, a horror series, a dark fairytale. Finally some good news: TV dramas are getting shorter 2018-11-06T05:00:00Z Don’t extend this hand or swallow your fury or brave this potential melodrama because they deserve it, but because you and your kids do. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Her mean ex-friend is now buddies with her closest pal 2017-07-05T04:00:00Z It fits with the overall self-seriousness and ponderousness of much serial TV these days, even on a cable channel devoted to teenage melodramas. Review: Marvel Moves to New Orleans for ‘Cloak & Dagger’ 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z The film is as preachy as a vintage pinko melodrama of social protest but funny and fleet enough that its didacticism slides by on charm. Steven Soderbergh’s “High Flying Bird” Is a Funny and Fleet Late-Capitalist Critique 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z It was, however, Francis King in the Sunday Telegraph who pithily summarised what many of us felt, when he described the show as "a lurid Victorian melodrama produced with Victorian lavishness". Twenty-five years on, they ask me if I was wrong about Les Mis?rables ... 2010-09-21T11:48:00Z Malkovich, 57, performed in the murder melodrama "Infernal Comedy," based on a real Austrian serial killer, at the Prague Spring music festival on Thursday, and was due to fly to Poland on Friday. Actor John Malkovich robbed in Prague 2011-06-03T13:27:42Z By age 5 Peggy-Jean had made more than 150 pictures, mostly short comedies and melodramas, for Century, Universal and Principal Pictures, and become a multimillionaire. Diana Serra Cary, Child Star ‘Baby Peggy’ of Silent Films, Dies at 101 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z Her story also accounts for a great deal of the show’s melodrama, which can seem out of place in a story about slavery. Review | Want to know what revolution looks like? Watch ‘Underground.’ 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z But she is temperamentally allergic to melodrama, and far less interested in the easy shocks and tidy consolations of plot than in the meandering, almost random texture of lived experience. Review: Isabelle Huppert Is Great in ‘Things to Come.’ Discuss. 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z With its dark-red foliage and tresses of crimson flowers, the amaranth is an annual full of Victorian melodrama — no wonder it’s sometimes called Love Lies Bleeding. In this garden, fall is a time to flourish, not fade 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z I even saw “Glitter,” quietly defending my Mariah while also appreciating the over-the-top melodrama of the romantic musical drama. 'Tis the season to love or hate on Mariah Carey 2023-11-12T05:00:00Z With her direction, Whitney White occasionally dips too far into melodrama, but otherwise nimbly adapts to the tonal shifts and key changes of Harris’s script. ‘On Sugarland’ Review: A Nameless War, and Too Many Wounds to Count 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z But what hasn’t changed is the melodrama of these political scandals. What Would ?The Good Wife? Do? 2011-07-08T21:24:38Z First, Perez redeems the very notion of melodrama from its pejorative uses; then he adduces its mode of “exaggeration” to the historical underpinnings and enduring core of the cinema. A Tribute to My Teacher Gilberto Perez and His Eloquent Philosophy of Cinema 2020-01-17T05:00:00Z A 2017 review in the Hollywood Reporter claimed that the series was simply, “soapy melodrama” laundry-listing “abuse” along with other boring “women’s issues” like child rearing. War at home: how Big Little Lies deftly dissects domestic violence 2019-06-17T04:00:00Z The central plot contains echoes of many a boxing melodrama, including “The Fighter,” with Mark Wahlberg. | 'Lights Out': With a Life on the Ropes, Seeking Redemption in the Ring 2011-01-10T23:08:16Z Her realistic prose and naturalistic characters eventually clash with the melodrama that overtakes the plot. Tracy Chevalier’s ‘New Boy’ illuminates the peculiar trials of our era 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z Hollywood Reporter film critic Todd McCarthy said the film was a "vaguely ambitious but tawdry melodrama," adding that it was "lacking both style and insight into the netherworld it seeks to reveal." In thriller 'Runner Runner,' Timberlake, Affleck explore gambling's underside 2013-10-02T18:21:17Z Imagining a crime-solving partnership between a grouchy police detective and a fictional Edgar Allan Poe, this historical thriller cooks up overheated gothic melodrama in a wintry New York setting. ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ Review: Stolen Hearts and Tortured Minds 2022-12-22T05:00:00Z The movie was praised by The New York Times as “a taut and realistic melodrama” when it opened in 1949. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z She covered “Heavy in Your Arms,” by Florence and the Machine, taking it into deep Janis Joplin territory, with flickers of Cher melodrama. Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson at Radio City Music Hall - Review 2012-01-22T18:02:05Z There were retrospectives devoted to Stanley Kubrick and Joseph Losey that summer too —I know I saw “Lolita” and “The Killing,” “Boom!” and “The Servant” — and also a miscellany of melodrama, film noir and comedy. Film: Movie Love for Paris, City of Klieg Lights 2010-08-14T14:22:00Z In early November, the long-awaited film adaptation of “For Colored Girls,” will bring that influential work to a new generation courtesy of a most unlikely director, the comedy and melodrama impresario Tyler Perry. A Writer?s Struggles, on and Off the Page 2010-09-17T23:14:00Z In Scott Cooper’s , a smartly filmed mashup of moody character study and revenge melodrama, mood wins. Out of the Furnace…and Into the Indie-Film Clichés 2013-12-07T00:29:27Z The movie’s lack of imaginative freedom reduces personal identity to pictorial identity; the grandiose and maudlin melodrama to which the movie rises feels as manipulative as did the dénouement of “Infinity War.” Review: What “Avengers: Endgame” Could Have Been 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z But look beyond these films and two other genres come to the fore: melodrama and . Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z And so intermission finds us deep within a completely predictable but not unpleasant melodrama. Theater Review: ?Tokio Confidential,? a Musical, at Atlantic Stage 2 2012-02-15T23:19:40Z When Judith launches into bits from her plays, the shape of the dialogue is such that you cannot avoid melodrama. Director Maria Aitken, keeping Coward’s blithe spirit alive It opened with Nicole Kidman playing Grace Kelly in “Grace of Monaco,” a critically savaged melodrama about Kelly marrying into Monaco royalty. Fiction, reality mingle for Stewart in Cannes 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z It also, somewhat more riskily, tries to fold the kind of playful, wide-eyed high spirits familiar from the “Night at the Museum” movies into what is in effect a midlife melodrama. Movie Review: ‘The Secret Life of Walter Mitty’ Stars Ben Stiller 2013-12-24T18:27:55Z Children are unlikely to be captivated by this unconvincing melodrama of abandonment and reconciliation, and adults will be moved by it only because we’re hopeless crybabies. Review: ‘The Lego Ninjago Movie’ Sticks to the Instruction Manual 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z Persians never express themselves mildly when melodrama is an option. “Marriage is an uncut watermelon”: How translation brought my native language to life 2014-03-21T22:58:00Z And if you want “Othello” to register as a tragedy, instead of a melodrama, this is a problem. Review: A Cool-Tempered ‘Othello’ for Warm Central Park Nights 2018-06-19T04:00:00Z This is a classic British family melodrama, anchored by one of the subtlest, richest roles in Kristin Scott Thomas' impressive career. "Nowhere Boy": John Lennon, before the Beatles 2010-10-08T11:01:00Z Trying to cram in a succession of broader historical events further crowds the serviceable melodrama’s natural breathing room. Love, race and a world divided in 'When Stars Align' at Odyssey Theatre 2015-09-08T04:00:00Z But much about the first seasons slid further into melodrama than one otherwise expects of a Regency tale. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z An over-the-top melodrama, it covered the second world war and its aftermath in three hours. Charles Jarrott obituary 2011-03-06T18:49:41Z He’s a horror — providing the film’s one potent flourish of domestic melodrama — but Mason would probably prefer his real dad to any pretender his mom hooks up with. REVIEW: Richard Linklater's Boyhood Is a Thrilling Epic of Ordinary Life 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z In his relatively brief Hollywood career, he was the master of melodrama. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The show chronicled a wealthy and eccentric Maine family dealing with the usual soap melodramas — but also time travel, ghosts, werewolves and vampires. Lara Parker, a Memorable Witch on ‘Dark Shadows,’ Dies at 84 2023-11-10T05:00:00Z When in the 1840s, he turned to producing fiction, the resulting novels naturally drew on their author’s flair for both dialogue and scenes of thrilling melodrama. Newly translated, a sequel to ‘The Three Musketeers’ is as fresh as ever 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z "It's in the more romantic period of making movies and adventure films. And this film is even more of a melodrama than the others," Lucas continued. George Lucas: Critics of "Star Wars" prequel dialogue "don’t understand" the franchise 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z And its subject matter -- the private and public melodramas of high school students and teachers -- is the stuff that dismissive reactions are made of. Why "Glee" is this century's "Twin Peaks" 2010-06-08T17:10:00Z It feels like just one more bit of fantastical melodrama that dilutes the potential power of “Bewilderment.” Review | Fresh off a Pulitzer win for ‘The Overstory,’ Richard Powers delivers another environmental ode 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z It distills a cinephilic passion—for classic Hollywood melodramas, Godard’s long takes, Jacques Tati’s pointillistic comedy, and Jacques Rivette’s and Andy Warhol’s experiments in duration—into an utterly personal and distinctive form. Postscript: Chantal Akerman 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But his inexperience as a choreographer showed as he obscured the relationship with embroidery and sank it into melodrama. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater Gala at the Met Opera House 2013-05-14T20:34:16Z Along the way, Ralphie negotiates with Santa Claus and his teacher, fights off a horrible bully and partakes in episodes of fantasy, melodrama and adventure. Dreaming of a white “Christmas Story”: A Yuletide classic’s “color-blind” racism 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z It’s ironic, or at least strange, that his work has come to stand as a kind of baseline, middle-C of mainstream Victorian melodrama, because he himself was not a mainstream individual. Charles Dickens: An Author of Demonic Energy 2011-10-19T10:00:49Z Ms. Hamilton relies on her performers both to convey the gravity of their circumstances and to keep melodrama at bay, and Mr. Mackie and Ms. Washington succeed with effortless grace. | 'Night Catches Us': Radical Actions of the ?60s, Reverberating in the Reflective ?70s 2010-12-02T23:58:00Z For Your Love showcases Record's quavery voice, which is well suited to melodrama. Josh Record (No 1,502) 2013-04-29T16:54:26Z Mr. Auburn doesn’t go for melodrama, though, nor does Ms. Brooksher present herself as a storm-tossed creature of fallen virtue and volcanic emotions. Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z If a Gothic melodrama like this is to have any chance of success today, it needs to conjure enough style and mystery to paper over some awfully familiar plot mechanics. Spoleto Festival USA Offers Tension and Balance 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z With the melodrama of conventional telenovelas, it tracks a Mexican woman’s rise as a drug boss in Spain. Gerardo Naranjo?s ?Miss Bala? Reflects Mexican Drug War 2012-01-15T04:27:18Z But Mr. Ackerman writes with less sentimentality, and his use of melodrama is more frugal and controlled. Review: In ‘Green on Blue,’ an Afghan Boy Narrates Story of War 2015-02-15T05:00:00Z The dancers never let the vibe veer into melodrama. Aspen Santa Fe Ballet launches L.A. residency with stirring, cinematic dance 2016-04-18T04:00:00Z But the question of complicity in our own downfall feels less pressing in this tarted-up melodrama than it did in Woolly’s similarly hot-titled season opener, Max Frisch’s post-World War II “The Arsonists.” Review | Sex, politics and art painted in broad strokes in ‘Botticelli in the Fire’ 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z If, in their knack for suspense, they imbue "People Like Us" with impatience, they also keep it entertaining, rendering a familiar, heart-rending melodrama as a gauzy and mostly pleasant diversion. Review: 'People Like Us,' a drama in action style 2012-06-27T21:39:08Z Morrison made her audiences conversant in her — the metaphors of trauma, the melodramas of psychology. Toni Morrison Taught Me How to Think 2019-08-07T04:00:00Z Films competing for the Michael Powell award for best British feature film include seven world premieres and the festival will open with a gala performance of U.S. family melodrama "Breathe In". Edinburgh Film festival attracts films from 53 nations 2013-05-29T17:45:40Z Take the wasteful melodrama of “Ease My Mind,” which is built on a sample of “DJ, Ease My Mind,” by Niki and the Dove. New Music: Skrillex Releases ‘Recess’; Dan Weiss’s ‘Fourteen’ 2014-03-17T21:45:45Z His latest film, Julieta, is a melodrama based on short stories by Alice Munro about a woman looking back on her life and her fractured relationship with her daughter. Pedro Almodóvar on Panama Papers: I'm one of the least important names cited 2016-05-17T04:00:00Z Unlike last week’s shows, which were heavy on melodrama and light on music, Thursday’s program was chock full of great performances. ArtsBeat: 'Idol' Field Is Culled After Group Performances 2012-02-17T06:04:52Z And once, so far, the synergy of cast, director and narrative has brought the genre close to the soaring, swooning glory of classic melodrama. Movie Review: ?The Lucky One,? Based on the Nicholas Sparks Novel 2012-04-19T14:00:00Z In place of realism, Mr. Netanyahu offers melodrama — a fervent talk between undressed lovers, a late-night confrontation between husband and wife. Review: ‘A Happy End,’ Iddo Netanyahu’s Play Set in 1930s Berlin 2015-03-11T04:00:00Z The secrets, the scandal and the sheer sensationalism of it all made for excellent melodrama. 'Passing for white': how a taboo film genre is being revived to expose racial privilege 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z “He brings reality and he grounds melodrama,” said Justin Michael, host of the fan show “Batman: The Animated Podcast.” ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Finds Kevin Conroy Back Under the (Animated) Cowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Lithe, serpentine, flamboyant, Mr. Amaya is a far more skilled dancer than Mr. Morales, but he shares the tendency to melodrama and adds to it the vulgarity of windmilling arms and fan kicks. Review: ‘Lorca Madly in Love’ Portrays a Forbidden Romance Through Flamenco 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z Tracing the final months in the life of an acting coach named Benjamin who is suddenly ravaged by cancer, “Peaceful,” by the French writer and director Emmanuelle Bercot, contains soap-opera levels of melodrama. ‘Peaceful’ Review: A Homage to French Filmmaking 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z When she could, Parker moved from the salad bar to red-meat roles in melodramas that earn the adjective “lurid.” Eleanor Parker: More Than Just the Sound of Music Baroness 2013-12-11T03:11:54Z Lacking both the romantic chemistry and the directorial panache that might justify its life-or-death stakes, “Midnight Sun” is a medical melodrama in need of resuscitation. Review: In ‘Midnight Sun,’ the Dawn of Romance Can Be Fatal 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z “I see things like “Written on the Wind” and they are so beautiful and so perfectly wrought, but something weird was going on,” Mr. Piedmont said, referring to the 1956 Douglas Sirk melodrama. From Will Ferrell to Stuffed Squirrels: 6 Steps to the Perfect TV Spoof 2015-07-08T04:00:00Z If melodrama is a sin, or a symptom of something not psychically right, then Kipnis is just as prone to using melodramatic rhetoric as anyone. Sexual melodrama on campus: The real story about college assault that David Brooks and Laura Kipnis don’t understand 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z Besides those gangster pix, the studio specialized in backstage musicals and gritty melodramas, recurring to a homegrown theme that transcended genres: an “obsession with sibling rivalry and pals who become enemies.” How the four Warner brothers built a movie empire that conquered the world 2017-10-25T04:00:00Z For once a melodrama with pulp origins convinces viewers that it can be the modern equivalent to Greek myths or a Jonathan Swift satire. TIME's Review of The Dark Knight Rises: To the Depths, To the Heights 2012-07-16T16:59:05Z An early American review of “Chocolat” compared its “intertwined themes of colonialism and forbidden love” to one of Somerset Maugham’s steamy Malaysian melodramas. ‘Chocolat’: What France Knew 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z But as intriguing as some elements are, “Within the Law” is less a revenge thriller than a creaking melodrama. ‘Within the Law’ Is a Revival Focusing on Social Justice 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Bollywood’s usual focus on romance and family melodrama hasn’t allowed for a thriving horror genre, but with this anthology, each of these filmmakers tries their hand at local screams and moody creeps. ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But as enjoyable as that version was, it didn’t quite reconcile its screeching turns between farce and melodrama. Cate Blanchett and Chekhov, Together on Broadway 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z In “Kalank,” a lavish Bollywood melodrama, people talk in mysterious ways. ‘Kalank’ Review: A Bollywood Love Story in the Shadow of Partition 2019-04-19T04:00:00Z It’s a tale of lost twins, amnesia, agoraphobia, adoption — most indebted, in other words, to melodramas like “Rebecca” and “Wuthering Heights” and “The Moonstone.” Six New Thrillers for Fall 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z If there's drama, it pushes the envelope to melodrama. Flying Kites across the world 2010-05-20T21:00:00Z Tear-jerker, melodrama, weepie — the kind of movie that provokes a highly charged emotional reaction has produced some of cinema's most beloved classics since the earliest days of silent movies. 'The Fault in Our Stars' adds new power to films' 'tear-jerker' label 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z Her wild erotic dance to a loud mambo beat, intercut with scenes of her father’s fatal heart attack, is one of the great sequences of 1950s Hollywood melodrama. Dorothy Malone obituary 2018-01-21T05:00:00Z Somehow, it’s all in here, a mash-up of deadpan vibes and manic melodrama made brighter and prettier: all the best parts, underlined to death. Review | Ryan Murphy’s ‘The Politician’ is cool and cynical — and difficult to fully endorse 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The narrative here is the main order of business, and it's slightly embarrassing to see it enacted by grown-ups in a musical melodrama that takes itself a bit too seriously. 'Hunchback of Notre Dame' at La Jolla has identity crisis 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z But there’s way too much filler — dull teenage melodrama, jokey but routine action, horror that doesn’t have the authentically creepy charge it used to. ‘Stranger Things’ Review: Once More Into the Upside Down 2022-05-26T04:00:00Z “Pitch” is clearly in search of an audience beyond sports fans, and there’s a danger that off-field melodrama will outweigh baseball — a late angels-in-the-outfield twist in the pilot is alarming. Review: ‘Pitch,’ a Gender Changeup, but With Clichés Intact 2016-09-21T04:00:00Z The tawdry melodrama, with satirical edges, begins the night White Mike’s cousin Charlie is found shot to death in an East Harlem playground. | 'Twelve': Nick McDonell?s Novel on Screen, With 50 Cent 2010-08-05T23:59:00Z Both are intelligent and thoroughly imagined — they’re melodramas with no artificial aftertaste. The Best TV Shows of 2018 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z This, then, is no mere mom-with-a-mission melodrama but a serious drama rooted in fact. Oranges and Sunshine wasn't just a false promise 2011-04-05T09:18:00Z Aside from its tendency toward leisurely travelogue, “The Self-Propelled Island” consists largely of slapstick comedy, prescient satire of capitalist privilege and melodrama. Michael Dirda takes a new look at a little-known Jules Verne novel 2016-01-13T05:00:00Z Muse, a three-man English band formed in the early 1990s, never misses a chance for melodrama. Music Review | Muse: Slaying the Dragon Called Subtlety With Large-Scale Heroics 2010-03-08T06:39:00Z What matters more is that it successfully balances dark yet crisp melodrama with bold tunefulness, softly pointed singing with sharp imagery: “You said forever, now I drive alone past your street.” The Blockbuster ‘Drivers License,’ a Possible Reply and 7 More New Songs 2021-01-15T05:00:00Z Even without the wigs and tarantula eyelashes of his performing alter ego, Arnold is a preternaturally heightened figure, only rarely without the battle gear of exaggeration and melodrama. Review: Lessons in Love From a Drama Queen in ‘Torch Song’ 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z His mixture of flamboyant, gender-bending minimalism and stylised melodrama, inspired by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera and the music of German romanticism, often juxtaposed with popular song, blurred the distinction between art and kitsch. Werner Schroeter obituary 2010-04-22T17:34:00Z The lighting is so portentous and the isolation and hopelessness so exaggerated that these scenes have always reminded me of Technicolor film stills from a 1950s melodrama — a kitschy imitation of life. For Gregory Crewdson, Truth Lurks in the Landscape 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z But what's missing when the two are cleaved is Mendelssohn's sense of melodrama. Hallé/Stenz – review 2013-03-01T17:09:36Z He compared the tone of his film, which is still being finished, to that of the romantic melodramas of the 196os. Vampires Meet Auteurs at Fan Fest 2011-07-21T22:54:34Z For much of the first half of this intelligent melodrama, Mary remains silent, pensive. ‘After Love’ Review: The Other Woman 2023-01-19T05:00:00Z Then he noticed something else, something beside the forced melodrama of the paragraphs he was reading and the strained, almost infantile efforts to replicate good writing. Perspective | Gene Weingarten: You. Won’t. Believe. What. Happened. Next. 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z So is the annoyance inspired by this prosaic masculine melodrama. ‘Palmer’ Review: A Crisis of Masculinity 2021-01-29T05:00:00Z That sort of measured drama without melodrama, being able to express a broad range of emotions without resorting to sentimentality. With ‘Tigertail,’ a Filmmaker Hopes to Comfort Asian-Americans 2020-04-10T04:00:00Z Purple might be used for a cheerful pantomime, the brand’s website suggests, whereas a Victorian melodrama might call for a pale green. How to Use Zoom Like a Theater or Film Professional 2020-05-27T04:00:00Z Without avoiding the demands of melodrama, Almodóvar uses what happens between the characters to hold up a mirror to how Spain has grappled with the legacy of the Spanish Civil War. Winter Movies 2021: Here’s What’s Coming Soon to Streaming and Theaters 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z Though it hasn't the sweep to be greater than the sum of its parts, the movie offers an absorbing mix of melodrama and historical detail. 'The Golden Era' a 'Reds'-like tale of Chinese novelist Xiao Hong 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Honeyman’s soupy delivery turns the work’s drama instantly and increasingly into melodrama. Apollo?s Singers ?Handel: Messiah? ? Review 2011-12-04T04:03:06Z The Times critic A. O. Scott wrote: “It’s a quiet, observant movie, with an aversion to melodrama and a sense of the ordinary.” New York Film Festival: Five Questions for John Crowley 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z Yet there is a truth in the melodrama that the rhetoric of “healing,” “recovery,” or “becoming a survivor” lacks for me, and that is its insistence that what I have lost is never coming back. I don’t know how to discuss being raped: I am different, permanently, but there’s no language to describe how 2016-04-02T04:00:00Z The insurance company upgraded our claim to its “catastrophe division,” but that’s industrial melodrama. Book World: A burst pipe, soggy tomes and a lesson in the economy of Nature 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Renouncing the principles of melodrama, it describes a joining of, and then a conflict between, Good and Good. The Theory of Everything review: My Left Brain 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z It knits these moods together to accommodate both paranoid thrills and grand pastel melodrama. Ryan Murphy’s “The Politician” Is a Funhouse-Mirror Reflection of the So-Called Meritocracy 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Another burly espionage melodrama, the Mel Gibson vehicle Edge of Darkness, sank more than 60% in its second frame. 2010-02-07T21:50:00Z Both series feature logo art that evokes horror movies or mass-market thrillers, advertising that approaches tastelessness, and narratives that occasionally verge on melodrama. “Dr. Death” and the Perils of Making Medical Malpractice a Thriller 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z Neither the comedy nor the melodrama works on its own terms, and Ms. LaMarque’s attempt to blend them is more awkward than bittersweet. Movie Review: Zoe Kazan Plays Disparate Twins in ‘The Pretty One’ 2014-02-07T00:05:05Z Both “Waves” and “Marriage Story” are both family melodramas about a crisis created by male characters, who also carry the brunt of that crisis. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z I may not be the most versed in the genre, but I know melodrama when I see it. Why trauma is cozy on “Virgin River” 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z They exude a kind of lushness, avoiding the brittle impersonality and formal melodrama often found in her paintings. 5 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The lurches in tone — family melodrama to political thriller to dinner-table farce — make this feel less like a series than a short-story anthology by mismatched authors riffing on a theme. ‘Extrapolations’ and the Peril of Climate Cringe 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Dexter’s own singing embarrasses or irritates others—the melodrama, “the righteous set” of his “mouth between verses.” Unheard Melodies: On Helen Garner’s “The Children’s Bach” 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z It’s a platoon picture about a dangerous mission, a father-son melodrama, an adventure story, a caper and a political provocation. ‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Black Lives Mattered in Vietnam, Too 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z Humans’ programming runs toward melodrama at times, especially in Hurt’s subplot, but it’s mostly restrained and chilling. Review: Humans is a Robot Chiller for the Smartphone Era 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z The narrator, in her effort to humanize the beasts, turns their lives into romantic melodramas for her tales. Review | Yan Ge’s ‘Strange Beasts of China’ is a luminous, beguiling chronicle of fantastical beings 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z Femme fatale, cattle rancher, screwball comedian or melodrama queen: Stanwyck inhabited them all, but her best characters were always fighters who had tasted the bitterness of life. From femme fatale to cattle rancher: how Barbara Stanwyck bucked convention 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z The backstage ballet melodrama currently leads The King's Speech by just a handful of votes in the race for the all-important best picture award. Oscars 2011 poll: could Black Swan beat The King's Speech by a long neck? 2011-02-25T12:41:10Z On screens large and small, it is also a genre not shy about employing a little melodrama in the telling. From 'Maleficent' to 'Game of Thrones,' a magical time for adults 2014-06-07T04:00:00Z And in the pulpy melodrama “How to Get Away With Murder,” at 10, things heat up in court when the prosecution tries to bring a new charge against Annalise Keating. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The History of Comedy’ and ShondaLand 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Their marriage has weathered many challenges in this melange of melodrama, whodunit and dark comedy. Huffman and Savant click on 'Desperate Housewives' 2011-05-05T10:49:08Z The boos heard 'round the world on opening night were mostly gone as "Tosca" reappeared at the Metropolitan Opera with a new cast that turned Puccini's melodrama into a feast of great singing. New cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca' 2010-04-15T07:00:00Z Nothing if not versatile, Ms. O’Hara appeared in harem pictures, westerns, costume melodramas and light comedy. Maureen O’Hara, smoldering Irish beauty of movie fame, dies at 95 2015-10-24T04:00:00Z The 55-year-old president has probably become accustomed to the accusation of unnecessary melodrama since his election three years ago. Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni-Sarkozy: The long and the short of it 2010-09-18T23:06:00Z But while “Greater Clements” deploys the grinding gears of melodrama to wear down its doomed characters, “Paris” takes an almost flatline approach to the unhappy existences it portrays. Review: Shrinking Lives at a Big Box Store in ‘Paris’ 2020-01-21T05:00:00Z The melodrama was milder, and a cynic might surmise that that’s why the show lasted only three seasons, compared to the original’s 14. Texas TV: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous 2017-03-29T04:00:00Z Mexican prime time is stuffed with melodrama and comedy, variety shows and even historical mini-series. Television: Mexican Cops: These Are Their Stories 2011-06-10T21:07:03Z The film is a melodrama about twin sisters - one good, the other evil. Lost Hitchcock film discovered in New Zealand 2011-08-03T18:07:09Z Writing in The Times, A. O. Scott called the film “a tour de force of meticulous cruelty, a comic melodrama that elicits laughter and empathy and then replaces those responses with squirming discomfort.” What’s on TV Friday: Kate del Castillo in ‘Ingobernable’ and Lady Gaga on ‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ 2017-03-24T04:00:00Z The music of “Diary” is often passionate, but this melodrama — the kind of needlessly heightened, smugly visceral stage action that’s characteristically van Hove-ian — feels out of place, false. Review: Ivo van Hove Fills His ‘Diary’ With Muddled Melodrama 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Apparently the laws of melodrama required that in order to raise up and finally tell the story of one black woman, another had to be put down. Review: In Netflix’s ‘Self Made,’ an Unlikely Entrepreneur 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z For the past several years, the big ticket in town has been the teen melodrama One Tree Hill. One Tree Hill and me: the true cost of renting your home to a hit TV show 2012-07-27T22:00:46Z Especially after Disher and Givens marry in Georgia, and a baby of likely mixed race impends, the musical pushes too hard toward tragedy, winding up well short at melodrama. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z That’s what makes the show smart and not engulfed in melodrama. Anna Torv of ‘Mindhunter’ on Playing It Cool, if Not Straight 2019-08-23T04:00:00Z The melodrama “My Policeman” tells a decades-long story of a schoolteacher, a museum curator and the man they both love. ‘My Policeman’ Review: Two Love Affairs, Equally Tragic 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z Like a magic brew thinned into bouillon, “Come Away” folds spellbinding storybook tales into a mundane melodrama. ‘Come Away’ Review: Escaping Grief Through Fantasy 2020-11-13T05:00:00Z In a great performance, and an insightful production, these qualities distinguish the opera from other late-Romantic melodramas. Review: The Met’s New ‘Samson’ Succeeds Only as Kitsch 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z “Hello” and “All I Ask” started low and sultry and ascended to full belting; “A Million Years Ago” was a mournful acoustic melodrama. Adele Arrives in an Arena at Last 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z That formula might be of use in thinking this new film from Gavin O’Connor, which grasps the Newtonian principles at the heart of pugilistic melodrama. | 'Warrior': ?Warrior,? Directed by Gavin O?Connor - Review 2011-09-08T16:26:17Z The problem is, almost certainly, with the script itself – its footling dialogue about what to wear and rationing, its flurries of melodrama. Smack Family Robinson; Before the Party; A Doll's House – review 2013-04-06T23:05:36Z Sticking with that strategy he is now releasing an album of arias from the Italian melodramas that startled with their raw emotions and violence when they were new, around 1900. Verismo Arias 2011-04-10T02:00:17Z First, though, in order for “Sisters” to become a comedy rather than the somber little indie melodrama it may secretly want to be, Kate and Maura have to hold one last big bash. Review: Amy Poehler and Tina Fey Come Home in ‘Sisters’ 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Royal court melodrama derives its pleasures from the mash-up of manners and the Machiavellian — the tasty paradox of wickedness expressed politely. ArtsBeat: ‘Game of Thrones’ Recap: Flames in the Night Sky 2014-05-05T03:38:23Z The strange stew of melodrama, didacticism and inadvertent camp that Howard serves up isn’t the result of a failure of taste or sensitivity. ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ Review: I Remember Mamaw 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z Over the next decade, he staged operas, romantic melodramas and contemporary works in theaters. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z A straggly, hand-puppet beast – a one-time mighty cucumber-lifter – sits dolefully in a rocking chair in his cosy cardboard box, indulging in a death scene as protracted as a Victorian melodrama. Ulster Bank Dublin theatre festival? review 2010-10-16T23:06:00Z They both incorporate Middle Eastern and South Asian situations and locations in what are essentially British family melodramas — war and terrorism serve as both central themes and exotic flavoring. The Mideasterner, TV’s Most Flexible Genre 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z Part melodrama, part combat-action movie, the film chronicles the lives of five friends. ‘Generation War’: 5 young German lives forever altered 2014-02-27T22:38:52Z His melodrama with Ramona rarely inspires anything more severe than a mild wince. "Scott Pilgrim": The end of the nerd as we know him 2010-08-12T15:01:00Z Time Out London called it, “Somewhere between a dream, a nightmare, an art installation and a melodrama.” Alice Birch Wins 2018 Blackburn Prize for ‘Anatomy of a Suicide’ 2018-03-12T04:00:00Z The company swiftly grew in size and stature – by the mid-19th century it boasted 155 dancers and had developed a distinctive theatrical style that encompassed folk dancing, melodrama and comedy as well as ballet. The Bolshoi ballet: a step-by-step guide to dance 2010-07-20T11:18:00Z Again, no big names here, but a highly professional and slick cast work their way through some tricky material, which could easily be played for melodrama or cheap laughs but somehow strikes the right balance. To see Edinburgh's best musicals you must look beyond the stars 2010-08-26T11:59:00Z His most recent movie, the Ellis Island melodrama "The Immigrant," was well received when it premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, but then went through an arduous editing process at distributor Weinstein Co. Charlie Hunnam joins 'Lost City of Z' as film gains heat 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z The result showed what an awkward medium melodrama is. Counterpoise | Classical review 2010-04-01T20:45:00Z But its mix of dark comedy, over-the-top melodrama, hot-button social issues — and passionate sex scenes — transfixed audiences. The Gladiators of ‘Scandal’ Leave the Arena 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z With its combination of melodrama and musical performances, “Queens” offered Brandy a chance to flex all of her performance muscles. Brandy Scored Her ‘Dream Role’ in ‘Queens’ 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z Rose’s purpose in the scheme of the play will be familiar to anyone with a nodding acquaintance with the conventions of melodrama. Theater Review: ‘Red Dog Howls,’ by Alexander Dinelaris 2012-09-25T02:30:05Z There’s now some solemnly overheated melodrama involving sexual exploration and jealousy, and every once in a while a modern mean-girl comedy takes over. Review: Taking Another Spooky Hike Up ‘Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z But it is impossible to finish this medieval melodrama without thinking that it would make a riveting series for an enterprising TV producer. A dark duke 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z Time and again, “True Adolescents” resists the temptation to succumb to easy melodrama. | 'True Adolescents': Great Outdoors Beckons as a Test of Manhood 2011-07-28T22:03:05Z The book, which was published in 1995, was a global best seller that was translated into 40 languages, though critics slammed it for its melodrama. Nicholas Evans, Author of ‘The Horse Whisperer,’ Dies at 72 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z Since bursting onto the international film scene in 1980, this irrepressible showman has served up tangy, nourishing stews of bent men and brave women, of comedy and melodrama, passion and grief. Rethinking the Movie Masterpieces: Richard Corliss Expands TIME?s List of Cinematic Greats 2012-05-17T10:00:59Z It's just the melodrama is heightened by setting it in a theatre. Keaton takes flight in Birdman film 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z “You’re tearing me apart,” James Dean wailed at his befuddled parents in the melodrama “Rebel Without a Cause,” a paragon of 1950s male anguish. Men Are in Trouble and Hollywood Wants to Help 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Sophie McShera does a valiant job of running through Daisy’s emotions, but she is overshadowed by the circus around her journey. has never strayed from melodrama, but it has never done something this openly schmaltzy. Downton Abbey Watch: House of Despair 2012-01-30T13:30:25Z As the protagonist’s possessive lover, his impassioned performance is perfect for the melodrama at play. Antonio Banderas: five best moments 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z “Uncertain Terms” is a classically constructed melodrama with a vital modernistic loose-endedness. What Movies to See This December 2014-12-01T05:00:00Z Brothers and After the Wedding, both from Denmark's Susanne Bier, are classic melodramas. Hollywood Goes to Sweden 2010-02-18T17:04:00Z There are spasms of farce and throbs of melodrama, but they arise within the rhythms of everyday behavior. ‘Marriage Story’ Review: Dance Me to the End of Love 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z The Daily News dismissed it as “a grisly melodrama,” while, jumping on the movie’s bandwagon, Time magazine’s critic saw “a sly, jaundiced look at swinging youth and the pervasive American climate of violence.” In ‘Pretty Poison’ and ‘Gun Crazy,’ Femmes Fatales With Deadly Firepower 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Lombard’s cool, blond beauty and fashion runway bearing led her to many similar roles in the class-conscious melodramas of the early years of the Great Depression. New DVDs: ‘The Man Who Knew Too Much,’ Carole Lombard Films 2013-02-01T21:45:15Z It’s a self-conscious nod, from Guettel and Lucas, to their uncommon fusion of operatic melodrama with the psychological realism of contemporary musical theater. ‘The Light in the Piazza’ Review: Outside, Looking In at Love 2023-06-22T04:00:00Z Bacall played put-upon secretary Lucy Moore, unhappily married to alcoholic playboy Robert Stack, in Sirk’s soapy Texan melodrama, undeniably a forerunner of TV series such as Dallas and Dynasty. Lauren Bacall: a career in clips 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z At the miniature Metropolitan Playhouse, this debate is presented unadorned by present-day editorializing; this, underlines Glaspell’s penchant for slamming melodrama up against wry turns of dialogue, a compositional tactic by turns ungainly and excitingly destabilizing. Review: In ‘Alison’s House,’ a Family Struggles to Protect a Literary Legacy 2015-11-29T05:00:00Z We wanted somebody that was flawed, troubled, to be able to play some level of melodrama. Resurrecting "Hellraiser" Cenobites as part of "an interrogation of how we negotiate our desires" 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z With Takafumi's wife comatose in a hospital, the film's stark juxtaposition of domestic melodrama and gonzo exploitation is very much reminiscent of "Audition." So the S&M-themed 'R100' is meant to be funny? 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z Mr. Akin, whose previous features include the explosive “Head-On” and the sprawling, wrenching political melodrama “The Edge of Heaven,” observes his characters and their social environment with a rigorously measured mix of intensity and detachment. Review: ‘In the Fade’ Is a Tale of Grief and Violence in Modern Germany 2017-12-26T05:00:00Z Directed by the brothers Andrew and Jon Erwin, and with an endorsement from the biblical-values promotion machine Concerned Women for America, “October Baby” traffics primarily in soapy melodrama and false compassion. Movie Review: ?October Baby,? With Jasmine Guy and John Schneider 2012-03-23T04:11:55Z It's a draw-you-in, sudsy melodrama stocked with guilty pleasures: romance, sex, obsession, betrayal and vengeance. Jodi Arias film: a new case of fatal attraction 2013-06-19T17:00:15Z “Black or White” is a frank, touching and very well-acted melodrama about child custody and cultural perceptions of “blackness” and “the race card.” ‘Black or White’: Well-acted film gets into gray areas of race 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Secret marriages between master and servant, dark melodrama, disease and death are part of a story where the starring role belongs to the city of Edinburgh itself. This week's new theatre 2011-01-22T00:06:52Z But this new film is the kitschiest thing she’s done in a while, and in “Black Is King” her evident passion for African art keeps getting drowned in an ocean of melodrama. Beyoncé’s ‘Black Is King’: Let’s Discuss 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z "We wanted it to be more than just a typical teenage break-up melodrama," Philippe said, of writing the devastating exchange, and the glimpse it offers into the ableism Theo has faced. Making the "Only Murders in the Building" nearly silent episode 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z In the Wednesday performance, conducted by George Manahan, even the pruned score retained the portentous, seething lushness of the music in a Douglas Sirk melodrama, with expressive touches of dissonance. Review: ‘The Dangerous Liaisons,’ Lush Music of Malice 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z But the pleasures of high-class melodrama are always present, as is the comforting notion — increasingly hard to believe — that our leaders can be compassionate, intelligent and exceedingly well behaved. Review: ‘The Crown’ Season 2 Takes the Queen From Crisis to Crisis 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Let this ’90s melodrama wash over you in all its teary warmth. How Much Watching Time Do You Have This Weekend? 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z If a black-and-white melodrama isn’t up your alley, enjoy the timeless score by Miles Davis. What’s on TV Tuesday: ‘A Quiet Place’ and ‘The Endless’ 2018-06-26T04:00:00Z Abrams’ and Damon Lindelof’s island melodrama, the reason you cared about it so much in the first place was because you cared about the passengers of Flight 815 and assorted newcomers. High (Concept) Anxiety: Are Big Ideas Bad for TV? 2012-11-14T15:40:09Z He keeps the tale on a steady simmer right through to the closing moments, when it spits and sputters into melodrama. Shell – review 2013-03-14T22:50:01Z In the Hispanic market that means no telenovelas, the dominant form of melodrama that is a limited run but airs every night of the week. US television wakes up to growing Latino audience with new options 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z George Stevens's melodrama cast her as a spoiled debutante who bewitches Montgomery Clift's ambitious social climber. Elizabeth Taylor dies aged 79 2011-03-23T13:28:00Z Unfortunately, in her attempt to make the story timely and to set Martha up as a relatable heroine, she sometimes slips into melodrama. Review | Martha Gellhorn imagined she and Hemingway could form an unbeatable team 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Still, Noé is adamant that Love is a melodrama, not a comedy. Director Gaspar Noé on his 3D sex film, Love: ‘All governments like controlling people’s sexuality’ 2015-11-12T05:00:00Z How do you steer clear of the most obvious pitfall for this type of movie: cheesy melodrama? Why ‘Beautiful Boy’ director Felix Van Groeningen is fascinated by the fragility of families 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Dickens met the 17-year-old in January 1858; she was to take over a small part in his sensational production of The Frozen Deep, the Arctic melodrama Wilkie Collins had written for him. The Great Charles Dickens Scandal by Michael Slater - review 2012-11-23T22:55:02Z With young singers, as with melodrama, less is more. At Castleton Festival, a fitting tribute to Lorin Maazel 2015-07-06T04:00:00Z Founder of a cosmetics company in the late 1800s that exists today as Ayer Cosmetics, her personal and business lives were a series of highs and lows, with enough melodrama to fill volumes. Spare Times for Jan. 20-26 2012-01-19T21:33:09Z She reads to the women a book about Bill Clinton's presidency, a melodrama that captivates them, especially when "Monica, his No. 2" enters the story. Danai Gurira's 'Eclipsed' — a harrowing tale of women and war in Africa — is a promising sign of Broadway's future 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z A weak melodrama felt for a few minutes like a tragedy. Music Review: An ‘Andrea Chénier’ Short on Star Power 2014-03-25T09:46:00Z Eager for a rigorous acting experience after nine years on that fast-paced melodrama, Ms. Tierney arranged to visit the Wooster Group, the New York theater troupe known for experimenting with language, movement and multimedia. Despite Cancer, Maura Tierney Tries ?North Atlantic? 2010-04-20T21:43:00Z As a confessional forum for dysfunctional and dispossessed Americans, Mr. Springer’s show may have since been eclipsed by the semi-scripted melodramas of reality television. Review: ‘Jerry Springer,’ Sacred and Profane, Triumphantly Sings Again 2018-02-23T05:00:00Z A young mother battles postpartum depression in the arid melodrama “A Mouthful of Air.” ‘A Mouthful of Air’ Review: Depression Clouds a Domestic Idyll 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z He expected to see “Doctor Doolittle” but was exposed instead to the German melodrama “Varieté.” German Director Leaps Beyond His Comfort Zone 2010-12-08T20:53:00Z Shepherd turns Romantic tragedy into Victorian melodrama, complete with a villain more unspeakable than her most famous literary creation. A Treacherous Likeness by Lynn Shepherd – review 2013-03-01T17:50:01Z Ross Lorraine's Not More Lovely revived the genre of melodrama, or music accompanying speech, as occasionally practised by composers such as Mozart and Strauss. Counterpoise | Classical review 2010-04-01T20:45:00Z Set in the Hamptons and very loosely based on “The Count of Monte Cristo,” this nighttime soap mixed the campy melodrama of “Dynasty” with the chic knowingness of “Gossip Girl.” 2011 TV: ?Homeland,? ?Parks and Recreation,? ?The Hour? 2011-12-17T18:10:32Z Her voice is indeed impressive: there's fine, throaty work on Break These Chains; Tori Amos-style melodrama elsewhere. Clare Maguire: Light After Dark ? review 2011-02-27T00:05:22Z The competitive drives and separation anxieties of all maternal melodramas are here bound up in class conflict. Television: ?Mildred Pierce?: A Mother?s House of Love and Hurt 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z Despite a terrible script, Carroll came off slightly better than her co-stars, Michael Caine and Jane Fonda, in this condescending melodrama on race relations. Diahann Carroll obituary 2019-10-04T04:00:00Z Yet a livelier drumbeat lightened all that bleak melodrama about a blighted era tumbling out of control. Thrills More Boardroom Than Bedroom 2010-10-14T21:27:00Z Instead, the carefully calibrated restraint that arises from McQueen’s earnest and sententious direction seals out the psychological implications of the stifled melodrama. “Widows,” Reviewed: Steve McQueen Grafts Heist Film 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z But somewhere beneath the melodrama, I found unexpected catharsis in watching this fictional family grapple with an unthinkable loss that so closely mirrored my own. Perspective | How ‘This Is Us’ helped me process my dad’s death 2019-03-26T04:00:00Z To greater or lesser degrees, they're all fascinated by the details of the workplace, and the crises and melodramas that take place there. There's more to the office than "The Office" 2011-09-05T17:01:00Z At a festival where the critics are not afraid to boo a film they dislike, "Ismael's Ghosts", which moves from spy thriller to melodrama and verges on farce, seemed to be well received. Cannes festival opens with genre-bending French drama sheltered from 'brutal' critics 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Not long after this scene, Daniel Warth’s “Dim the Fluorescents” evolves from a screwball roommate comedy to a melodrama about artistic frustration. Review: ‘Dim the Fluorescents’ Unites Two Roommates in Art and Commerce 2018-01-11T05:00:00Z The show embraces the melodrama of telenovela conventions, relishing the opportunity to point out that it knows exactly how absurd it is. The unexpected miracle of “Jane the Virgin”: Her surprisingly realistic television pregnancy 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z And while it's true that the reason people tune into these shows is for the melodrama, I think "caring" might be too strong a term when talking about America's feelings towards these egoists. Dissecting the lyrics of "Real Housewives" songs 2011-04-21T20:30:00Z So when it came time to dance, sing and swagger in this musical melodrama, she was ready. What’s on TV Thursday 2016-07-14T04:00:00Z You know in your bones, because this is melodrama, that a comeuppance for the bad guys is inevitable — just as soon as a slip of paper, long missing from its rightful owners, reappears. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z The Scena Theatre production in the Atlas Performing Arts Center’s tiny Lab II is a pocket staging of the Wilde play, a script that crackles with epigrams and simmers with melodrama. Review | The hippies are back in Shaina Taub’s musical ‘As You Like It’ 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z “It’s a unique combination of different genres: the ghost story, the thriller story and melodrama,” Mr. Chatrian said. Chinese Independent Filmmakers Look to Locarno Festival 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z Perhaps no one else could have held together Paul Verhoeven’s film: part psychosexual melodrama, part pitch-black comedy, part trashy thriller. Oscar Spotlight: The Actresses 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z Detail of a backdrop from a melodrama to be shown at the National Theatre Melodrama was first created in the 1790s. Projections of puppet theatre 2010-07-30T23:06:00Z To cut the stream-of-consciousness verbosity, as an opera libretto must, is to leave exposed the fragility of the play’s central, rather standard-issue melodramas. Review: ‘Angels in America,’ Carved to the Bone and Into an Opera 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z The writer-producer Ryan Murphy took some flak a few years back for his backstage melodrama “Feud,” which depicted the real-life rivalry between Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in ways both entertaining and factually shaky. The Best Movies and TV Shows Coming to Netflix, Amazon and More in May 2020-05-01T04:00:00Z “August: Osage County” falls into an uncanny valley between melodrama and camp, failing to achieve either heights of operatic feeling or flights of knowing parody. Movie Review: ‘August: Osage County,’ With Meryl Streep and Julia Roberts 2013-12-26T15:07:50Z It’s telling that she chooses a melodrama but compresses it by a factor of 10, and that she sets it next to the sculpture by Glen Fogel, as inconspicuous as the Eye of Sauron. RoseAnne Spradlin’s ‘g-h-o-s-t c-r-o-w-n (working title)’ 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z He shoots in the bright, lurid colors of melodrama but surveys the agony in front of him with cool serenity. ‘White Bird in a Blizzard,’ a Mystery From Gregg Araki 2014-10-23T04:00:00Z “I Am Love” is not the series’s only melodrama. Film: New Directors/New Films Offers ?I Am Love? 2010-03-30T21:33:00Z Rather, the film is what might be called a melodrama of transference, one of a number of recent movies exploring the treacherous dynamic between a fallible therapist and a disturbed patient. Movie Review: ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko 2013-05-16T21:08:34Z Without that kind of control and pictorial fluency, the story loses its sensuality, and all that’s left is a fairly threadbare, clichéd melodrama. Review: Taking Another Spooky Hike Up ‘Hanging Rock’ 2018-05-24T04:00:00Z ‘MOONLIGHT’ Kindness and tenderness, as opposed to tear-jerking melodrama, are traits not commonly associated with movies that aim primarily to thrill and excite. The Best Movies of 2016 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z But that film is worlds away from the murder-mystery plot and domestic melodrama of "Mother." 2010-01-11T03:31:00Z I realized I was being annoying: When the macro seeps into the micro — when our hopes and dreams start showing up in emails about sponges in the break room — it’s called melodrama. Too many exclamation points!!! 2012-07-28T19:00:00Z Hits like Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" or OWN's "The Haves and the Have Nots" have shown there is an appetite for African American melodrama — be it real or scripted. With 'Empire,' diversity becomes the watchword on television 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z "Carmen blends perfectly with Hindi film because they are both pure melodrama," he says. Bollywood Carmen: Bizet goes bhangra 2013-06-05T19:00:01Z What all this means is that Shakespeare’s thread of individual tragedy takes a back seat to political melodrama. Review | The king feels more like a pawn in updated, political ‘Macbeth’ 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z “I’m never gonna dance again, the way I danced with you”? What a work of melodrama! ‘Wham!’ Review: They Made It Big, Then Broke Up 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z Which is good news for “A Wedding Invitation,” a Pan-Asian romantic melodrama that virtually pokes you in the eye with its fakery. Movie Review: ‘A Wedding Invitation,’ Directed by Oh Ki-hwan 2013-05-23T23:33:05Z But, as in the melodramas that were once bread-and-butter to great popular actresses, it’s the maternal fierceness that prevails. Review: Glenn Close Raises a Saint in ‘Mother of the Maid’ 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z Burton And Taylor, the new biopic, does not indulge the melodrama. Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter: being Burton and Taylor 2013-07-13T08:00:00Z In the case of the week, the show indulged its tastes for moralizing and melodrama by going after an American tech company whose surveillance software is being used by the Syrian government. ArtsBeat: 'Good Wife' Watch: Alas, More Perils of Will 2012-02-20T06:00:57Z Seattle Opera captures the melodrama of this situation, but not much else, in its production, which opened Saturday and runs through Jan. 25. Seattle Opera’s ‘Eugene Onegin’ is fine but could offer so much more 2020-01-13T05:00:00Z As a whole, I'm afraid "Casabianca" punches at the weight of melodrama rather than tragedy. Poem of the week: Casabianca by Felicia Dorothea Hemans 2011-07-25T10:59:41Z The writer and director, Bernard Rose, ventured down a similar path 21 years ago with the soaring Beethoven biography “Immortal Beloved,” another lathered-up blend of melodrama and musicianship. ‘The Devil’s Violinist,’ a Niccolò Paganini Biopic 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Braga’s intelligent luster and Bernal’s sandpaper machismo make a combustible match, in a Westernish melodrama with good guys, bad guys and a climactic fight to save one of the world’s last great natural resources. The Wild West in the South of France 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z Burrough recounts an incident where a bomb detonated beneath a seat in a decrepit Bronx movie palace showing William Wyler's interracial melodrama "The Liberation of L.B. Jones," and the blasé audience declined to evacuate. '60s and '70s radicals get a fresh look in 'Days of Rage' 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z And because so many of those tears and fears are so familiar, they can’t help being pretty touching: In melodrama, we cry for them, but also for ourselves. Movie Review: ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower,’ Directed by Stephen Chbosky 2012-09-21T00:13:16Z Her pre-Hays-Code melodrama followed a doomed romance between a plantation owner and one of his workers, and ended with its spurned heroine burning the fields of her former lover. ‘Cane Fire’ Review: Here Am I, Your Plundered Island 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z It's pretty silly, but the film wears its numerous influences on its sleeve, and plays with a very heightened sense of melodrama you don't often see in modern thrillers. Like 'Nanny McPhee Returns'? Try other Emma Thompson films ? and a classic 2010-08-19T21:00:00Z In “The Wandering Soap Opera,” reality itself is reimagined as an interlocking set of interminable melodramas, crime stories and romances. ‘The Wandering Soap Opera’ Review: An Excursion Into Raúl Ruiz’s Fertile Mind 2019-05-15T04:00:00Z Without all that padding, but instead seeing its melodramas through, “Motel Cherry” would still be plenty strange and a lot more satisfying. Theater Review: ‘Motel Cherry,’ by Peggy Stafford, at Here Arts Center 2012-06-25T22:46:40Z In his program note, Hepfer described Aperghis’ solo percussion piece “Le Corps á Corps” as “a schizophrenic melodrama,” and he turned it into a schizophrenic tour de force. Why a fashionable young audience flocked to hear an obscure Greek composer's soundscape 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z In a moment of high melodrama, he pretends to use two flashlights to fight off the storm. 'Halt and Catch Fire' Recap: When Technology Is Your Best Friend 2014-07-06T04:00:00Z “Unforgotten” is also familiar: at once a comfortably formulaic British mystery and a somber, elegiac melodrama, though a particularly well-made version of each. Review: ‘Unforgotten’ Makes the Case for Decency 2021-07-09T04:00:00Z Steeped in Puritan piety, it’s a misty melodrama set in Rome among four artist friends, one of whom is hiding a sinister secret. Review: ‘For the Last Time’ Sets a Hawthorne Novel in New Orleans, in 1950 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z Compared to the earlier films, the great melodramas with Bergman seemed thinner in texture, so linear and direct as to seem not so much unfinished as overfinished. Joe Swanberg’s Decade of Revolution 2015-08-21T04:00:00Z "The Twilight Saga" already mixes together high school melodrama, outsider fiction and teen romance into a mishmash of sci-fi and horror genres. "Twilight" finally hits its stride with third film 2010-06-28T05:27:00Z Her work is reminiscent of a Neapolitan theatrical tradition called sceneggiata, a kind of over-the-top musical melodrama about honour, betrayal and crime. Ties that bind 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z “Lying Life,” which credits Ferrante as one of its four writers, is a particular type of Italian production: an intellectualized and politicized but unashamed melodrama. An International Buffet, From Elena Ferrante to ‘Slow Horses’ 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z Still, writer and director avoid miring “The Great Wilderness” in melodrama or sentimentality. ‘A Great Wilderness’: a crisis of faith, identity 2014-01-24T17:52:35Z “The Monk”: A French-language melodrama in which the title character is beset with spiritual torments. Burke’s Dino Day| Weekend Preview 2013-03-06T22:30:26Z He favors lurid, borderline-ugly colors and finds a tone that somehow erases the distinction between deadpan comedy and overwrought melodrama. Movie Review: Todd Solondz’s ‘Dark Horse’ Stars Jordan Gelber 2012-06-07T21:43:01Z Writer-director Terry Miles' revisionist homage is a thoughtful thesis on the melodrama but a letdown in its attempt to serve as an affecting example of that genre. 'Cinemanovels' falls short as homage to romantic melodramas 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z The movie’s story about a rampaging gang resembles the moralistic juvenile delinquent melodramas of the previous decade; but Corman adopts a less judgmental tone. Peter Fonda: 7 Great Movies to Stream 2019-08-17T04:00:00Z Drawing on narrative traditions, from popular melodramas to avant-garde theater, Mr. Ruiz, best known in America for his 1999 adaptation of Proust’s “Time Regained,” turns “Mysteries of Lisbon” into yet another search for lost time. | 'Mysteries of Lisbon': A Portuguese Tale of Time, the Revealer 2011-08-04T22:17:21Z There was just one problem, and it trumped all else: Her mother was a colossus of melodrama. Review: In ‘An Abbreviated Life,’ Ariel Leve Escapes Her Mommie Dearest 2016-06-26T04:00:00Z The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven’s sober, well-made World War II melodrama, “Winter in Wartime,” is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. | 'Winter in Wartime': Teenager Encounters Adulthood and Nazis 2011-03-17T23:08:53Z Fletcher’s divided conscience, like Holiday’s activism, carries intriguing dramatic and historical potential, but like nearly everything else in this feverish, frustrating movie, the political themes are handled with maximal melodrama and minimal clarity. ‘The United States vs. Billie Holiday’ Review: Singing for Her Life 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Segal’s 1970 melodrama inverted the usual formula for books and movies: It wasn’t a film based on a novel, but a novel based on a movie at the time in production. Longtime publishing editor Genevieve Young dead at 89 2021-02-18T05:00:00Z She suffers, perhaps a little too beautifully, like a heroine of melodrama. Review: From Natalie Portman, Israel’s Birth Distilled in Mood and Memory 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z Reynolds’s own performance, ranging from febrile comedy to radiant melodrama, is more than the means, or even the embodiment, of this idea. The Front Row: “Mother” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z With minimal melodrama she conveyed the steep prize of being in the thrall of romantic heat as time goes by: serial, deepening disenchantment. Music Review: Lauren Fox Sings Songs of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen 2012-02-20T22:38:14Z But it gets waylaid in spectacle and lurid melodrama. Review: ‘Ratched’ Flies Out of the Cuckoo’s Nest and Into the Mire 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z They are the same issues that dance films and TV shows mine for drama and melodrama. On Ballet TikTok, a Place for Young Dancers to Be Real 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z So she was pretty compelling as a Soviet partisan in Enemy at the Gates; she was riveting in The Shape of Things and threw herself into the Grisham melodrama of Runaway Jury. David Thomson on Rachel Weisz 2010-05-27T22:19:00Z A surreal Arctic thriller, a classic Los Angeles hard-boiled procedural and an operatic Mafia melodrama: Choose one or try all three. ‘Fortitude,’ ‘Bosch,’ ‘Gomorrah’: TV Crime Never Sleeps 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z For years, the reaction was uniform hostility towards Perry’s embrace of melodrama and stereotype. Pour One Out for Tyler Perry’s Madea 2019-03-30T04:00:00Z The Skin I Live In director is Spain's most prolific film-maker, known for his mix of high melodrama while tackling identity and mental health issues. Almodovar to receive film honour 2013-09-16T15:54:13Z Last season the wildly popular melodrama, set in early 20th century Britain, was the most-watched series on PBS since Ken Burns' epic "The Civil War," which first aired in 1990. Comings and goings at 'Downton Abbey' next season 2013-03-02T11:11:08Z As the conversation adjourned to the living room, mother and son struck up a riff on Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich, Bette Davis melodramas, Hitchcock’s “Rebecca.” O Suburbia, With a Touch of the Cosmic 2011-03-05T05:23:05Z For a game that requires this much reading, the prose is never more than workmanlike, though it is, thankfully, clear of melodrama. Video Game Review: The Banner Saga Blends the Old and the New 2014-01-14T23:04:38Z This revenge melodrama from the director Brett Donowho serves as a reminder of the genre’s vitality, even on a low budget. ‘Miles Ahead,’ ‘The Exiles’ and More Streaming Gems 2023-06-14T04:00:00Z Shindo's film was in part realist, as he used radiation victims in many of the roles, but essentially he turned the political into melodrama. Kaneto Shindo – master of Japanese cinema 2012-06-22T21:55:17Z It’s also one of the great modern romantic melodramas, as well as a clear, confessional view of Portugal’s troubled political history—and of the price of progress. Movie of the Week: “Tabu” 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Korbut’s melodrama, of course, played out only days before McKay’s landmark coverage of the Olympic Village hostage crisis, which would change the world of sports, and sports television, in a different and darker way. Michael Phelps, Jordyn Wieber: Redemption! 2012-08-01T11:45:00Z But the producers decided to devote this week’s shows mostly to melodrama rather than performances, a curious decision given the strong ratings their competition “The Voice” is pulling down. ArtsBeat: 'American Idol' Watch: Engineered Drama Trumps Actual Singing 2012-02-10T16:24:35Z What’s a film in the series that stretches your definition of melodrama? He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Withers, while making the cause of the wife's frustration just as plainly sexual, might well have conveyed a certain residual warmth and humanity that would have transformed melodrama into drama. Googie Withers obituary 2011-07-16T09:19:52Z Thursday’s program featured three interludes from his 2007 opera “The Sacrifice,” which plunged from a stirring opening into heightened, folk-colored melodrama ranging over the entire orchestra, bristling with a full complement of percussion and brass. The NSO goes to Britain 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z They also tip over into melodrama and sentimentality: two decidedly un-Kafkaesque qualities. Books Of the Times: ‘Forgiving the Angel,’ 4 Kafkaesque Stories Involving Kafka 2014-01-20T22:50:18Z In the hands of a Hollywood studio, the story would be a natural platform for a stirring, picturesque melodrama with a bleeding heart. Review: ‘Mediterranea,’ African Migrants’ Perilous Trek to a Hostile Land 2015-11-19T05:00:00Z A smart, engaged film powered by an altogether remarkable performance by Jake Gyllenhaal, it is melodrama grounded in a disturbing reality, an extreme scenario that is troubling because it cuts close to the bone. 'Nightcrawler' cuts it close in its dark look at local TV news 2014-10-30T04:00:00Z It is easy when you're dealing with this type of story to become too heavy, or dwell in melodrama, but the goal was to play characters who are real and complex and occasionally contradictory. "Wildhood" is a Two-Spirit liberation: "I’m done with Indigenous and queer characters that are sad" 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z "The White Shadow," a silent British melodrama directed by Graham Cutts and a financial flop, tells the story of twin sisters, one angelic and the other soulless. Alfred Hitchcock's earliest surviving film work released online 2012-11-15T23:56:36Z Ultimately, the melodrama sends more serious concerns to the back of the bus. Journey on race relations takes some wrongs turns in 'White Guy on the Bus' 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z In “The Judge Hunter,” the satire is mild, for this is mostly a melodrama about a ne’er-do-well brother-in-law of the great English diarist Samuel Pepys. Finding the Funny in 17th-Century History 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z “And they have so combined sentiment, humor and pathos with taut melodrama and bristling intrigue that the result is a highly entertaining and even inspiring film.” What’s on TV Thursday: Carrie Fisher in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ 2016-12-29T05:00:00Z Alice would have greater resonance if she were introduced as a more ordinary figure, especially since the play is essentially an old-fashioned melodrama of a woman struggling to forget her past. | 'Lidless': ?Lidless,? a Guant?namo Play - Review 2011-10-07T00:28:35Z Out of the darkness of these ugly times, and the tenderer moments conjured in a family of seven children, Butterworth weaves an enthralling tapestry of melodrama, wryness and suspense. Review | ‘The Ferryman,’ an explosive, exhilarating human drama 2018-10-21T04:00:00Z For me, Morricone’s song here is a great example of his wonderful gift for melodrama in music, a thrilling musical ability to go straight for the emotional jugular. Ennio Morricone: a composer with a thrilling ability to hit the emotional jugular | Peter Bradshaw 2020-07-06T04:00:00Z That bit of wisdom — among the mantras shared by a predatory broker named Rick Carver — is both upheld and defied by “99 Homes,” Ramin Bahrani’s stunningly effective melodrama of flipped houses and mortgaged souls. In ‘99 Homes,’ a Man Buffeted and Then Manipulated in Florida’s Foreclosure Disaster 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z The Williamstown Theater Festival is hosting what is being described as a preview production of the musical, based on the Todd Haynes movie that paid luscious homage to the heavy-breathing 1960s melodramas of Douglas Sirk. The Week Ahead: July 15 — 21 2012-07-13T15:03:38Z It is more of a diversion for viewers looking for handsomely mounted period British melodrama. Netflix's gorgeous "Dig" loses sight of its own discoveries in favor of soapy period melodrama 2021-01-14T05:00:00Z From the very beginning, Marvel’s Spider-Man comics had an element of teen melodrama, and there was a tension between the comic-book universe and the real world that was unprecedented and then widely imitated. Spider-Man and Holden Caulfield: A secret history 2012-07-03T00:00:00Z In the early nineteen-fifties, he wrote some screenplays and starred in a strange little low-budget melodrama that he wrote, “Dance Hall Racket.” Where Comedy Comes From 2015-04-25T04:00:00Z The melodrama “Saint-Narcisse” presents an interpretation of the Greek myth of Narcissus, the beautiful youth who pined after his own reflection. ‘Saint-Narcisse’ Review: A Classic Romance Between Twin Flames 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z Although these scenes present ample opportunities for action, suspense and melodrama, the characters rarely come to life. Movie Review: Jeremy Irons and Lena Olin Star in ‘Night Train to Lisbon’ 2013-12-05T23:12:57Z “Hotel” keeps the depravity but, for now, appears to have dropped the voluptuous melodrama of the “Freak Show” and “Coven” seasons. Review: ‘American Horror Story: Hotel,’ as Depraved as Ever 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z The book is also a medical melodrama, a family mystery and a meditation on . . . well, meditation. Review | With ‘Double Blind,’ Edward St. Aubyn tasks himself with a formidable challenge 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z I think that may be key to how we identify with melodramas, and to the eternal relevance of the genre. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z “More melodrama than Greek tragedy,” Lyn Gardner wrote in The Guardian. Arthur Miller’s Screenplay ‘The Hook’ Finds a Home Onstage in England 2015-06-24T04:00:00Z "The White Shadow" is a melodrama featuring Betty Compson, who was a big star in the 1920s, in dual roles as twin sisters -- one angelic and one devilish. Lost Alfred Hitchcock film found in New Zealand 2011-08-03T22:04:58Z Which is interesting, or at least odd, because “Succession” is primarily a straightforward family-dynasty melodrama, wrapped in chilly but ostentatious displays of wealth and favoring overheated profanity as a communication method. Review: In HBO’s ‘Succession,’ the Family That Preys Together 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Curiouser and curiouser, this weird melodrama that was dismissed by most critics but surely worth a look for its willful mixture of dream fragments with aspects of the director's own nightmare autobiography. Francis Ford Coppola's 3-D Twixt in Toronto: The Third D Is for Dementia 2011-09-16T17:10:00Z Harrelson’s DeGroat isn’t the problem in this meandering melodrama; it’s the solution — the saving destination for a movie that, like its Rust Belt characters, had been going nowhere, slow. Out of the Furnace…and Into the Indie-Film Clichés 2013-12-07T00:29:27Z Without them, and to some extent with them, the movie often feels more creaky than chipper, as it tries to find an emotional tone that combines bouncy sexual humor, domestic melodrama and psychological realism. | 'Tamara Drewe': More Sex, Please, We?re British Rustics 2010-10-07T23:18:00Z And yet, and yet … there is much about this album – its self-possession, its vaulting ambition, its shameless melodrama and showmanship – that, with time, grows hard to resist. Gabriel Bruce: Love in Arms – review 2013-05-02T21:00:01Z This is hopefully the final chapter of an absurd and inadvertently revealing melodrama. James Corden and the Dangers of Likability 2022-10-25T04:00:00Z Watch it for Almodovar’s complex treatment of female and feminine characters. Finish it for his unique brand of elegantly campy melodrama. 10 ways to celebrate Pride Month without leaving your house 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The Kingpin’s overscaled rage and narcissism gave the story energy, and the contrast with Daredevil’s problematic idealism was fertile ground for comic-book melodrama. In ‘Daredevil,’ on Netflix, the Punisher Stirs Up the Gangs 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z It comes off as a director’s shortcut to lending mystery, even a touch of surrealism, to an ingeniously compact melodrama. Review: At Met Opera, ‘Pagliacci’ Goes Vaudeville as ‘Cavalleria’ Turns 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z No: America in particular made a melodrama out of very modest crisis. Capitalism 4.0 by Anatole Kaletsky 2010-07-24T23:25:00Z David Zucker: And it made all the difference to have that be in the context of a serious melodrama, and have the lines delivered by serious actors, like Stack, Bridges, Nielsen and Graves. "When stupidity is elevated": "Airplane!" filmmakers reveal the secrets to their deadpan success 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z “The Happiest Girl” is a brittle melodrama of a piano ballad, and “Yeah Yeah Yeah” is a cheerful ’80s pop simulacrum that also nods to the Weeknd and Daft Punk. Blackpink and the Limits of K-Pop Maximalism 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z His “Salón México” was a departure — a noirish musical melodrama set in a tawdry Mexico City cabaret to a near continuous rumba beat. The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema Lives Quietly Online 2019-10-22T04:00:00Z Over all, the characters’ melodrama is unwarranted; the final climactic event that Alix thinks “felt like the plot twist of a horror movie” is actually quite predictable. When It Comes to Race, How Progressive Are the Progressives? 2019-12-31T05:00:00Z "Glee" definitely packed in the star power during its six seasons of musical melodrama. 13 memorable 'Glee' guest stars 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z The knowing melodrama made what went on behind the scenes – namely, the abuse of Jane and Celeste – even more disturbing, because of how jarring it was. Has the satire and humour of Big Little Lies been lost in translation? 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z "Dad, I'm Sorry," is a very lively, chaotic, funny family film, but then it shifts gears and becomes a melodrama. Why dramedy "Dad I'm Sorry" speaks to Vietnamese offspring: "They don't dare talk to their parents" 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z But for the most part, this pleasant but bland new musical gives off the musty whiff of antique melodrama. | 'Death Takes a Holiday': Set Aside That Scythe, and Let?s Put on a Show 2011-07-22T02:01:27Z In Mr. Haynes’s “Far From Heaven,” his combination of playfulness and seriousness translates into a homage to Sirkian melodrama that turns into a thrilling example of the very same. Review: ‘Wonderstruck,’ Todd Haynes’s Imitations of Life 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z It might also be about what’s wrong with us, and why we seem to be a nation of easily distracted and not particularly bright children who find more meaning in second-rate melodrama than substantive discussion. Anthony Weiner’s downfall and Donald Trump’s rise: Everything that’s bad and stupid about politics in one lesson 2016-05-21T04:00:00Z The films that Crawford and Davis made once went under the slightly condescending sobriquet of “women’s pictures,” suggesting weepy melodramas and mushy romance. Perspective | Hollywood ageism punishes actresses, but the art house offers some hope 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z That very transformation, rooted as it is in many different levels and aspects of Arthur’s real-life pain, professional and romantic, personal and creative, becomes the subject of grand and melancholy melodrama. The Cinema’s Fear of Drama 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z The series explores story lines that practically scream for teen-show melodrama — drinking, drug use, bullying — and treats them with audacity and deft humor. ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Okay’ Review: Half-Siblings, Whole Family 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z He may not be shooting a film, but it’s telling how much his life seems like a melodrama or a comedy or even, as in a gritty scene with slashing knives and blood, a thriller. ‘Pain and Glory’ Review: Almodóvar’s Dazzling Art of Self-Creation 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z Without a whisper of sensationalism or melodrama, “Sparta” views a warrior’s homecoming through Conrad’s increasingly traumatized consciousness. Roxana Robinson’s ‘Sparta’: a warrior’s perilous homecoming 2013-06-19T23:12:50Z As if to compensate, the dramatic gestures swell into melodrama. ‘Rosas Danst Rosas’ Revisits a Choreographer’s Early Work 2014-07-13T04:00:00Z The drama is often at the edge of melodrama, of self-parody. Dance Review: Tere O’Connor’s ‘Bleed’ Debuts at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2013-12-13T22:05:12Z And while the melodrama “Easy Virtue” may seem like an odd fit for Hitchcock, the director cited it in a 1962 interview with François Truffaut to illustrate the concept of suspense. Movie Listings for May 13-19 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z What follows is difficult to classify generically: It is too carefully distanced to be a melodrama, too personally specific to stand as a civil-rights allegory. 'In the Family': Insightful look at one family's transformation 2012-10-04T20:02:07Z "I just loved it so much," said the effusive Jeff Perry, who comes across as the opposite of the Machiavellian White House chief of staff he plays on ABC's addictive melodrama. 'Anna Christie' a new stage in Jeff Perry, daughter Zoe's relationship 2015-01-21T05:00:00Z Dipsea avoids such melodrama so thoroughly that it seems to have created a genre of its own, with audio details that enhance a sense of pleasure, safety, and calm. The Audio App That’s Transforming Erotica 2019-07-21T04:00:00Z What follows is partly a “Big Brother”-style reality spoof, complete with domestic melodrama, introspective talking-head interviews and suspiciously stagey confrontations. “What We Do in the Shadows”: A hilarious mockumentary on suburban vampire angst 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z The sophistication of his artistry is splendidly on view in his 1997 melodrama, “Afterglow,” which exalts a cast of stars and not-quite-stars to an equally ardent pitch of romantic anguish and exaltation. What to Stream: “Afterglow,” a Melodramatic Spotlight for Julie Christie 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z This week, almost 20 years after Wes Craven’s slasher masterpiece, MTV delivered its own version of Scream – a campy, suspenseful series of the same name that offers as much teenage melodrama as it does violence. Scream of laughter: how today's best-loved pop culture grew from parody 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z A series of droll narrative tableaux goes to town on melodrama. Happenstance’s gleeful hat tip to vaudeville with a wink to the present-day 2016-06-29T04:00:00Z “Mildred Pierce” was a departure from Cain’s claustrophobic earlier novels, and some reviewers complained about the odd mix of social realism and melodrama. Television: ?Mildred Pierce?: A Mother?s House of Love and Hurt 2011-03-20T02:30:05Z Badalamenti evokes Douglas Sirk melodrama with soaring strings, as Lynch does with his romantic plots, but tempers it with modern instrumentation, just as Lynch does by conjuring a sense of metaphysical terror. Twin Peaks still marks the summit of TV soundtracks 2010-03-25T12:28:00Z Writing those experiences, Yuknavitch is willing to risk melodrama, obscenity, and sentimentality, seemingly indifferent to the supposed canons of good taste. The Wild, Remarkable Sex Scenes of Lidia Yuknavitch 2015-08-25T04:00:00Z New revelations continue to emerge well into the second act, inching Ms. Gurira close to melodrama. Review: ‘Familiar,’ a Comic Clash of Assimilation on the Path to a Wedding 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Her Mildred glowed with toxic energy, and quite took your mind off the melodrama of the piece. TV review: Penn and Teller: Fool Us; Law and Order: UK; and Mildred Pierce 2011-07-10T21:05:01Z This, coupled with the slow evolution of the scenario, keeps us on the cusp of melodrama. Rashaun Mitchell’s ‘Light Years,’ Surreal Yet Supple 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z “The Drunkard” is, of course, pure melodrama, but the director, Francis X. Kuhn, avoids any of the mustache-twirling histrionics that usually accompany it, although the temptations must be great for actors and director alike. | 'The Drunkard': Saved, Before Alcoholics Anonymous 2010-10-04T21:32:00Z The difference between melodrama and comedy is a matter of perspective. Review: Daniel Day-Lewis Sews Up Another Great Performance in ‘Phantom Thread’ 2017-12-24T05:00:00Z He continues, ramping up the melodrama: "These are not Hollywood sound effects, this is the music they play every night in London: the symphony of war!" New band of the day - Public Service Broadcasting (No 1,414) 2012-12-12T17:00:45Z Her pieces and those of guest artists tended toward melodrama and effort, straining for novelty at the expense of ease and craftsmanship. When the dancers let loose, this performance flowed more smoothly 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z Meek turns the drums into phantom horsemen and fills the record's dark spaces with melodrama – a keening female voice on the chorus rounds the effect off. The best No 1 records: John Leyton – Johnny, Remember Me 2012-05-31T20:51:00Z I have to give her credit for trying to capture the youthful melodrama of the tango, but she ended up looking like a muppet who had popped a cable. "Dancing with the Stars": Bristol Palin, monkey-style 2010-10-19T12:30:00Z "He does push towards the melodrama, right, push it towards the earnest, but ends on some devastatingly funny unexpected image or moment or line." The lesson of "Six Feet Under," 20 years later: "We're not really as in control as we all think" 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Alena Smith, who’s written for “The Newsroom” and “The Affair,” created the show, with its high-low, deadpan spoof of both melodrama and sitcom conventions. Apple TV Plus: More Than ‘The Morning Show’ 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z "The Secret in Their Eyes" - Murder and love, melodrama and laughter intertwine in this long and winding Argentine film, the surprise winner of the foreign-language Oscar this year. Capsule reviews: `The Back-up Plan' and others 2010-04-23T00:31:00Z But the mood hovers in the neighborhood of melodrama, thriller, even horror. ‘Both Sides of the Blade’ Review: Who Do You Love? 2022-07-07T04:00:00Z The party people had gathered to make some noise, take some pics, throw out a few oh-no-he-didn’ts as they eagerly awaited the second-season premiere of the smash Fox melodrama “Empire.” Lonnae O’Neal: The pope and ‘Empire’ bookend a Washington day 2015-09-24T04:00:00Z Because Ashe takes melodrama seriously, he commits to its lush sincerity. ‘Sylvie’s Love’ Review: In the Mood for Romance, Sighs and Tears 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z When the script veers toward melodrama, these actors ground it with sensitivity and verve. Review: In ‘Brothers From the Bottom,’ Jousting About Gentrification 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z These films also made Sirk’s name synonymous with melodrama, the genre that he raised to new heights of personal expression through a blend of thematic precision and stylistic invention. Movie of the Week: “Written on the Wind” 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z Fraternal melodrama and social turmoil provide fuel for relentless action. ‘Athena’ Review: Oh Brothers, Where Art Thou? 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Her preoccupations were nostalgia and melodrama, and strategic falseness became a kind of calling card. Review: Lana Del Rey, a Character No More 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z And yet, melodrama can be effective, especially when sung; the “melo” part of the word, after all, means music. Review: In ‘Black No More,’ Race Is Skin Deep, but Racism Isn’t 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z Reading some reports, it was almost as if this was being played out as a parliamentary outing melodrama, which doesn't apply. The David Laws story is nothing to do with gayness. It's about money 2010-05-29T23:06:00Z It's a shame that the programme descended into melodrama. Barrister Elizabeth Prochaska on Silk 2011-02-27T21:45:00Z The movie, directed by Rupert Goold and written by Tom Edge, is a gentler, squarer mash note to the Great Woman that’s part maternal melodrama, part martyr story. ‘Judy’ Review: The Singer (Disaster, Legend) at Rainbow’s End 2019-09-25T04:00:00Z The music draws the story into the heightened, emotionally manageable space of melodrama, an approach that remains consistent throughout. Chhapaak Review: Life and Activism After an Acid Attack 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z This despite some melodrama in the first act that was awkward to watch--and has hopefully been worked through since I last saw it. Review: ‘Anastasia,’ a Russian Princess With an Identity Crisis 2017-04-24T04:00:00Z Reviews of Ferrante’s work note how liberally her work borrows elements of the romance and the potboiler: the unapologetic melodrama, the cliffhangers. Elena Ferrante’s New Novel Is a Suspenseful Story About the Sins of Parents 2020-08-25T04:00:00Z If the romantic melodrama were in need of vindication, it would find a stalwart defender in "Cinemanovels." 'Cinemanovels' falls short as homage to romantic melodramas 2014-07-02T04:00:00Z By the time his stint there was over, Mitchell was "so fascinated by the melodrama of the metropolis at night" that he forgot his ambition to be a political reporter. Rereading: Up in the Old Hotel, by Joseph Mitchell 2012-06-22T21:55:18Z It’s a daringly transgressive work by a writer seeking to rewrite the rules of melodrama and explore the exquisite pressures on black artists in a white world. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Characters openly explain terms like “kayfabe,” the performer’s commitment to insisting that the action and melodramas are strictly “real,” and the best way to hit someone with your elbow without actually hurting them. ‘Heels’ Is a Family Drama, With Body Slams 2021-08-13T04:00:00Z The second sneak of the festival was “Black Swan,” a backstage melodrama by Darren Aronofsky that often plays like a horror movie. Film: Movies, Mountains and High Hopes 2010-09-06T22:55:00Z All too soon, however, the mystery turns into soapy melodrama, and the supernatural is superseded by the clichés of network drama: stock characters, obvious plot twists and too much heavy-handed exposition. Television Review: New TV Fantasies: ABC’s ‘Resurrection’ and NBC’s ‘Believe’ 2014-03-07T00:03:48Z HBO offered two very different series about women whose friendships are tossed around by the violent currents of 20th-century European history, and each provided the pleasures of well-made, intelligent melodrama. Best TV Shows of 2020 2020-12-01T05:00:00Z Egypt does have a lively film industry, but most of what has been produced and consumed under Mubarak's reign has a harmless commercial flavor — mostly broad comedies and melodramas with little political content. Egypt: First the government, next the arts? 2011-02-14T02:35:00Z A 14th-century Florentine choir book depicts the Last Supper as a kind of pulpy melodrama. Art Review: ‘Illuminating Faith’ at the Morgan: Images of the Eucharist 2013-07-04T20:22:28Z To add yet another layer of intrigue to this melodrama, it's been revealed that Diana won't return to the tent again. The Bake Off controversy: it's the editors who are 'sort of unacceptable' 2014-08-28T04:00:00Z For all the melodrama of his defenestration in the Walla Walla hotel room, and the potentially wrenching relationship at the movie’s core, Sleepwalk is oddly soothing, like a cup of camomile tea before bedtime. Sleepwalk With Me: His American Life 2012-08-24T04:21:10Z Their battle of wills manifests itself into an intense, hallucinatory melodrama with a wonderfully macabre ending. 9 Great Olivia de Havilland Movies to Stream 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z The end product is a melodrama that examines identity issues as well as the debt pop music owes to gay culture and gospel, with frequent departures into sparkling music video fantasy. With Fox’s “Star” Lee Daniels expands his nighttime soap empire 2016-12-13T05:00:00Z Mr. Stoppard and Mr. Wright offer “Anna Karenina” and its heroine to the gods of melodrama, who receive her gladly. Movie Review: ‘Anna Karenina,’ From Joe Wright, With Keira Knightley 2012-11-15T20:25:23Z On screen she is less abrasive and less brassily sexual than in print, but unlike a lot of movie characters, whether they live in comedy or melodrama, she is not simple or predictable or conventional. | 'The Other Woman': A Home Wrecker Faces Many Challenges, Too 2011-02-03T23:33:40Z In smart and supple prose that eschews melodrama and wears its research lightly, Oliveira shows a deep understanding of art history and artistic process, and of Paris in the 1870s. ‘I Always Loved You’: the flames of an artistic passion 2014-01-29T23:40:36Z Like that show, “Sabrina” places adolescent melodrama in a supernatural milieu, drawing parallels between everyday teenage antics and otherworldly horrors. Kiernan Shipka Gets a Tarot Card Reading. It’s Mostly Good News. 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z But they also hold up as typical melodramas of the period, made by studio talent and less overtly propagandistic and warlike than corresponding American and European films. What They Did in the War: Two Japanese Actresses’ Propaganda Work 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z It shows Ulmer in a "Citizen Kane" mood, relishing the energy of pure propulsive melodrama that was one of his strengths. Director Edgar G. Ulmer gets his due at LACMA 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z It was somber, with no touch of melodrama. Beyond the Drag Event Horizon 2017-12-02T05:00:00Z The Coen brothers will fancy their chances with True Grit and are joined in the hunt by the ballet melodrama Black Swan, the Facebook saga The Social Network and Pixar animation Toy Story 3. Oscar nominees do lunch 2011-02-08T21:35:05Z “Emergency Declaration,” a piercing thriller from the South Korean writer-director Han Jae-rim, manages to deliver excitement and melodrama out of a ludicrous story line. ‘Emergency Declaration’ Review: Midair Contagion 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z There’s actual war to parallel the drawing-room wars, and along with it, the season plays like a more overt melodrama than the first. TV Weekend: Scenes from the Class Struggle, with Downton Abbey and House of Lies 2012-01-06T16:54:11Z He had a huge personality, and fortunately left behind him a rich fund of anecdotes about his foibles and small melodramas, which offer plenty of material for a writer to play with. Handel and me 2012-11-30T22:55:12Z It injects a gratuitous note of melodrama into a movie whose undercurrents of humor keep it from becoming painfully somber. Movie Review: ‘My Brothers,’ Directed by Paul Fraser 2012-11-30T00:49:55Z Schizophrenia may be an appropriate subject for a melodrama. Movie Review: Schizophrenia in Dustin Lance Black?s Film ?Virginia? 2012-05-17T23:03:55Z The melodrama of parent-child reconciliation, of redemption and recovery and hard lessons tenderly learned is a staple of movies and television, and the magnetic pull of that therapeutic genre is hard to resist. Movie Review: Paul Weitz?s ?Being Flynn,? Starring Robert De Niro 2012-03-01T22:37:28Z The show, which begins Tuesday night on MTV, is a comedy with a fair amount of melodrama mixed in. ‘Happyland,’ MTV’s New Scripted Series 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z One of Mr. Hoghe’s techniques is to keep the volume purposely low; as music enters the consciousness, he plays with the line between fragility and melodrama. | Raimund Hoghe : Opposites on Every Count, Kindred Souls in Many Ways 2010-09-17T22:20:00Z Both use serious business — social history in “Downton,” violence toward women in “Liar” — to dress up what is essentially well-made melodrama. Review: A ‘Downton Abbey’ Star in Peril Again in SundanceTV’s ‘Liar’ 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z Melodrama lends big emotions big expressions in modest circumstances; the classic Hollywood melodrama transfers tragic fury from royal courts and castles to the small town, the suburb, the city apartment. The Counterfeit Oscar Acting Style 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z If family dramas usually involve characters throwing fits in those living and dining rooms, Mr. Nelson sidesteps melodrama to render revelations in quieter moments, even silences. Richard Nelson Tweaks ‘Sorry’ at the Public for Election Day 2012-11-05T23:29:19Z Paradoxically, for a film named for a place, the new film is the more abstract, the more archetypal, the more generic film—like Scorsese’s “The Departed,” it’s a genre film, a classical melodrama. Kenneth Lonergan’s Devastating, Liberating “Manchester by the Sea” 2016-11-23T05:00:00Z The film, to be shown twice in a recent 35-millimeter restoration from the University of California, Los Angeles, is part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s international survey of movie melodramas, titled “Emotion Pictures.” Obsession, Unspoken and Unacknowledged: ‘Letter From an Unknown Woman’ 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z These are women, Jamison explains, who “are wary of melodrama so they stay numb or clever instead. Post-wounded women make jokes about being wounded or get impatient with women who hurt too much.” A Novel of the “Post-Wounded Woman” 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z The first is an old-fashioned romantic melodrama set in the world of contemporary pop music and the other is a faux-documentary following a group of vampires in Wellington, New Zealand. 'Lights' and 'Shadows': Movies Oscar forgot but you will remember 2015-03-07T05:00:00Z It is, first of all, an unabashed melodrama, with all the handkerchief wringing and mustache twirling that term implies. Theater Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep 2014-05-05T02:00:01Z Like a scene from a morale-boosting melodrama, the story claimed the young Andrews was huddled one night with family and friends in a Beckenham air raid shelter. "Prima donna in pigtails": how Julie Andrews the child star embodied the hopes of post-war Britain 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z Touted as a cross between Gossip Girl and Dynasty, Revenge's campy melodrama and conniving plans are set against a backdrop of glitz, glamour and inexhaustible trust funds. Six to watch: TV's rich list 2012-05-29T14:42:01Z Dickens intended the tale, after all, as popular entertainment, serialized over the course of two years and highly indulgent of gaudy melodrama. ‘Oliver!’ Review: Tunes, Glorious Tunes, in a Grimly Cheerful Revival 2023-05-04T04:00:00Z But surely the story could be told in a way — say, linearly — that would inject this overheated melodrama with some desperately needed dramatic impact. "Where the Crawdads Sing" is a stupefyingly bad adaptation of spoon-fed melodrama 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z Lana Turner picked him to play the war correspondent with whom she tumbles into bed in the forgettable 1958 melodrama “Another Time, Another Place.” Sean Connery, Who Embodied James Bond and More, Dies at 90 2020-10-31T04:00:00Z He’s a real-life, African-American Horatio Alger and Jay Gatsby, all rolled into one, the star and creator of his own gruesome melodrama. O.J. Simpson, American icon: Why the football star turned accused killer is one of the 20th century’s most important cultural figures 2016-06-11T04:00:00Z Little Miss Marker A month-long salute to Shirley Temple gets underway with this 1934 melodrama about an orphan who becomes the ward of her late father's bookie. Monday's TV highlights: 'Chasing Life' and more 2015-07-05T04:00:00Z It’s involving as a melodrama and a meta-melodrama — and like “The Blue Angel,” a study in how people take advantage of one another, at once exploiting and acting on all-too-human needs. Ready for Drama (and Meta-Drama)? Start With These Two Masters. 2020-11-05T05:00:00Z Following genre conventions is not necessarily a sign of failure — some of the best movies ever are perfectly orthodox westerns, detective stories, melodramas and marriage comedies — and flouting them is not in itself a virtue. Arts & Leisure: Films Dispense With Storytelling Conventions 2012-11-21T13:00:00Z For a while, it lurches uneasily from comedy to domestic melodrama to horror — sort of like a soap opera with H. P. Lovecraft as script supervisor. Review: ‘The Feast’ Plumbs the Depths of a Troubling Toilet 2015-03-20T04:00:00Z Caspar Harlan’s three daughters, on the other hand, seem more baffled than uncomfortable, dismissing the movie as a bourgeois melodrama that is “so cheesy and really banal.” Nazi Film Still Pains Relatives 2010-03-02T04:04:00Z Aronofsky's Black Swan – which, incidentally, starts out as a not terribly good melodrama and ends up as a great horror movie – is just the latest in a long and well-established line. Before Black Swan: ballet and the movies 2011-01-07T12:38:10Z “I remember liking her very much,” he said, referring to her performance in Todd Haynes’s 2002 period melodrama “Far From Heaven.” Patricia Clarkson, Stealth Weapon of Choice 2010-08-01T01:53:00Z With so many strands and themes — and so many locations crammed into the narrow set — Ms. Hutchinson’s plotting sometimes slips into melodrama, while perpetuating unhelpful myths about Asian families and female fertility. Review: ‘Somebody’s Daughter,’ High-Achieving but Hungry for Guidance 2017-06-07T04:00:00Z Mr. Puts’s music blithely segues from Felliniesque evocations of British music hall skits to Gothic horror melodrama. 5 Operas in 72 Hours: A Philadelphia Festival Is a Test of Survival 2017-09-20T04:00:00Z The fallout is spectacular, but Hale doesn’t play it for melodrama; the tragedy is all the more affecting for its predictability. Benjamin Hale treats troubled characters with care in 'The Fat Artist and Other Stories' 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z As for superhero films, I hugely enjoy them as melodrama, spectacle, craziness and fantasy: for me, in these terms, they really are cinema. Martin Scorsese isn't wrong about Marvel movies – but neither is he quite right | Peter Bradshaw 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z Popular mainly in the U.K. and spawned from certain danceclubs, the trend was distinguished by sonic melodrama and a fancy sartorial aesthetic. "Planet Earth" at 40: The perfect debut single that boldly launched Duran Duran 2021-01-30T05:00:00Z The desert blooms with melodrama and film noir, and the streets teem with cynicism, conspiracy and corruption. Movie Review: In ‘Omar,’ the West Bank Is a Backdrop for Betrayal 2014-02-20T23:28:48Z His melodrama “Home from the Hill,” from 1960, which I discuss in this clip, is one of his best films and one of Hollywood’s most powerful family stories. The Front Row: “Home from the Hill,” One of Hollywood’s Most Powerful Family Dramas 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z Yet the film is less a resuscitation of Gaga’s career than it is a defibrillator to the musical melodrama, a genre that has been sadly dormant since The Bodyguard. When pop stars play pop stars… 2018-09-29T04:00:00Z Taken together, her tribulations have the makings of bathetic melodrama. | 'Life, Above All': Burdened in a Ravaged South Africa 2011-07-14T21:45:54Z A year that saw all manner of political melodrama couldn’t be a more perfect one in which to consider the plays of William Shakespeare, with their power grabs and scheming. Essential Arts & Culture: A Shakespearean year, a wondrous 'El Niño' and dogs, dogs, dogs! 2016-12-24T05:00:00Z Departing from its usual true-crime reality fare, the network is unrolling “Heartbreakers,” which brings back stars from the past in scripted melodramas that happen to be based on true life. Vintage stars return for real-life ‘Heartbreakers’ 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Two bodies, twining and untwining, pausing in awkward but beautiful acrobatic poses — all of these images say, without melodrama, “Can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.” Dance Review: Morphoses, at the Joyce Theater 2012-11-08T22:23:04Z There is some sex and plenty of gore, but mostly an atmosphere of feverish, lurid melodrama leavened with winks of knowing humor and held together by Goth’s utterly earnest and wondrously bizarre performance. ‘Pearl’ Review: A Farmer’s Daughter Moves Up the Food Chain 2022-09-15T04:00:00Z And “Traviata,” which returned to the Met on Saturday afternoon, is a far more naturalistic melodrama than the carefully antique, stylized “Norma.” Two Operas, Two Sopranos, Two Very Different Impacts 2023-03-05T05:00:00Z "While we aspired to the lofty and cerebral plane of a quotidian materiality, our unconscious life unraveled with an intensity and melodrama that inversely matched their absence in … our austere sculptural and choreographic creations." Step-by-step guide to dance: Yvonne Rainer 2010-12-24T13:12:31Z He went to France, discovered melodrama and forged an uncanny ability to transmute the language and events of his day — scandals, disasters, new technologies — into playable, rousing theater. Review: ‘London Assurance’ Minds Its Manners 2019-12-15T05:00:00Z Having become a downtown theater darling of the 1990s with poker-faced melodramas of willfully plodding dialogue, Mr. Maxwell has extended his artistic reach in his middle years. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z It’s format is more episodic and procedural and less soapy, and its melodrama is hidden under a matter-of-fact illustration of the benefits of the National Health Service. Call the Midwife Is No Downton Abbey—But Here Are 5 Reasons to Watch Before Sunday’s Season Finale 2012-11-02T12:00:21Z Created by Lee Daniels and Danny Strong, “Empire” put hip-hop melodrama in prime time and became a consistent ratings winner for the network. ‘Monarch’ Heralds a New Family Empire, This One With a Texas Twang 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z If the movie itself were better, it might have reëstablished melodrama, even more than fantasy, as a timely mode of auteurial invention. Blake Lively Lives Forever 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z The first episode runs that risk, leaning hard into the melodrama and underlining its moments of pathos heavily. Review: In ‘The Chi,’ a Young Man Dies, and the Ripples Spread 2018-01-04T05:00:00Z Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock/REX/Shutterstock Fox’s hip-hop melodrama Empire has been roundly celebrated for confronting the musical genre’s history of homophobia head-on. No more Mr Nice Gay: how TV representation changed from Will & Grace to Empire 2016-02-09T05:00:00Z Operas are no stranger to melodrama, but it usually doesn't involve an elected official. Punch up after opera costs Armenian mayor his job 2010-12-09T16:51:00Z The fact that much of it was steeped in melodrama was lost on me; at 14, everything is melodrama. Perspective | Warped Tour is over for good. Will the culture it created finally reckon with its demons? 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z Her Grammy-nominated song, “Faraway Look,” is a reverb-laden ballad that harks back to the early 1960s pop melodramas of the Righteous Brothers and Roy Orbison. Behind a ‘Best New Artist’ Nod: Yola’s 20 Years of Experience 2020-01-22T05:00:00Z He somehow achieves the emotional impact of good melodrama and the hectic absurdity of classic farce without ever seeming to exaggerate. | 'The Descendants': ?Descendants,? With George Clooney - Review 2011-11-15T21:00:13Z So are the body slams, the melodrama and the copious laughs. Review: In Netflix’s ‘GLOW,’ Empowerment Comes Through Power Slams 2017-06-22T04:00:00Z By the end of this often soaringly beautiful melodrama, which closes with a funeral, Emma’s face will have crumpled into a ruin. | 'I Am Love': Tilda Swinton in Lush, Romantic Italian Film 2010-06-17T22:47:00Z Beginning and ending with a forlorn man’s gunplay, the movie sometimes uses the blunt tools of melodrama to make its points; and Garfield can get adolescently dewy in skirmishes with his Manichan mentor. REVIEW: Spider-Man Has a Housing Crisis in 99 Homes 2014-08-29T04:00:00Z Most of Mary’s melodrama took place early on in the season, so the finale showed her as a contented wife. Here's Where Downton Abbey's Characters Ended Up on the Finale 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z "It's one of those films you look back and you kind of scratch your head over why it got so much prestige. I am not against melodrama, but she made a lot better films." Film's golden year, 1939, included 'Gone With the Wind,' 'Wizard of Oz' 2014-11-25T05:00:00Z The Spanish director Luis Buñuel reworked his lifelong theme—the erotic allure of Catholic moralism—in this 1970 melodrama. Movies 2014-07-21T04:00:00Z “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at Donald Trump and the unending melodrama taking place around him. Seth Meyers on Trump, Rubio and “the whitest round of snaps”: “Make a dick joke on the campaign trail, you’re the dick” 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z What was the point of inserting a bunch of made-up melodrama into an event that was already so harrowing? Perspective | The Titanic shipwreck killed 1,500 people. It didn’t need to be turned into a love story. 2017-11-15T05:00:00Z Philip's burgeoning independence threatens Treat, and the play then takes a descent into melodrama that smacks of Tennessee Williams, but without that master's profundity. Review: Broadway's 'Orphans' creates little light 2013-04-18T23:34:09Z Even as a boy, he was moved by the quiet melodrama of the average bar, in which shooting the breeze can provide cover for baring your innermost self. Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: the story of the drunkest film of the year 2020-07-08T04:00:00Z Writing in The New York Times, Mike Hale called it 50 percent postcolonial escape fantasy, 50 percent medical melodrama. What’s on TV Monday: The Great American Eclipse and ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z Because it’s really hard to top yourself 22 times and not get to melodrama. Julianna Margulies, in Closing Arguments for ‘The Good Wife’ 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z There is action, there are dance scenes and musical numbers, there are moments of melodrama and more. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The stuff of classic melodrama but with a hard-bodied hero in place of the softhearted heroine. Audiences Are Finding Diversity at Summer Movies 2012-08-08T12:06:02Z Another Caravaggio retrospective has also opened, here at the Quirinale: two dozen paintings, on view through June 13, a blue-chip survey, installed ridiculously in darkened rooms with spotlights, as if his art needed more melodrama. Abroad: Caravaggio in Ascendance: An Antihero?s Time to Shine 2010-03-10T02:49:00Z "Chaplin is above all a comic," he added, "but all his feature films are melodramas with some little snippets of humor." Ssh, no talking: Silent movie charms Cannes fest 2011-05-15T14:31:11Z Nonetheless, melodrama aside, the real story is there: ‘Project Blue Book’ Is Based on a True U.F.O. Story. Here It Is. 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z The other half, it plays like an unconvincing melodrama. Movie Review: Danis Tanovic?s ?Cirkus Columbia,? Set in Bosnia 2012-02-16T23:59:02Z The imaginative Filipino film, "Leonor Will Never Die" is a mash-up of action movies, melodrama, romance and moviemaking — with dance and musical numbers thrown in for good measure. "Leonor Will Never Die" filmmaker on how she created her dreamy "action star grandma" 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z The flash of inspiration, the hymn to the beloved at the easel, are usually the stuff of cheap melodrama rather than serious exploration. When art sings: How paintings have fared on the musical and opera stage With Spain’s decision to support his latest melodrama, Julieta, that tally has now grown to six. Oscars 2017: best foreign language race stacked with auteurs and provocations 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Black iron stairways lead to a catwalk across the back of the stage, while a soaring gridwork of prisonlike bars suggests a massive societal tension between the melodrama’s captives and captors. Olney’s big ‘Sweeney Todd’ makes a stab at greatness, and falls just shy 2017-02-06T05:00:00Z Even your Facebook-stalking seems to me more melodrama than the action of a mother desperate to make things right. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mother’s mistakes come back to haunt her 2020-03-29T04:00:00Z True, the narrative requires a fair amount of artificial contrivance, is a little a predictable, and lurches into melodrama in the final straight – but this kind of story probably demands that. The Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling – full review 2012-09-28T10:30:01Z At its dramatic heart “The Ten Commandments” is less a story of religious belief or national awakening than a barn-burning melodrama, constructed along the same lines as DeMille’s secular films of the ’20s. Video: When DeMille Parted the Red Sea 2011-04-01T21:39:04Z “The Killing,” which concluded its first season on Sunday night with the tenuous resolution of the central crime, Rosie’s murder, has been as much mystery as melodrama. Critic?s Notebook: Murder and Melodrama: An Obsessive Killer Is Revealed in a Stylish Whodunit 2011-06-19T22:08:38Z Tom Wingo is a middle-aged former high school teacher who can no longer outrun the demons of the “grotesque family melodrama” of his childhood. 50 States, 50 Love Stories 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z He agreed to play a supporting role in my melodrama. Never seen a play on Broadway? How a first-timer played the odds and scored cheap tickets. 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Ms. Andress occasionally tips over into melodrama — she was a member of the a cappella group Delilah, which competed on the reality competition show “The Sing-Off” — but mostly her voice is steady, calm, alive. The Playlist: Lana Del Rey Finds Love in a Hopeless Place 2017-02-24T05:00:00Z Those days are over, too, especially at ABC, which critics have accused of using melodrama to build viewership. ABC’s Bet on David Muir of ‘World News Tonight’ 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z Known for her over-the-top death scenes, Bernhardt had a flair for melodrama, and in her private life, too, she was eccentric with a taste for the macabre. Before Taylor Swift or David Bowie, There Was Sarah Bernhardt 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z He depicted them with the zeal of an Inquisitor and a helping of melodrama. Murillo, Not So Saintly: A Quiet Master Reassessed 2023-01-12T05:00:00Z Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian Have we lost our taste for historical melodrama? The Duke in Darkness – review 2013-04-26T09:29:53Z The pain in Hudson’s eyes, reflecting the mounting frustration of his daily life and the sense of inescapable constraint in the eternal shuttle between job and family, is the very engine of the Sirkian melodrama. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Stewart "does an impressive job of balancing the story's tonal shifts, largely keeping the melodrama at bay while at the same time modulating the film's surreal humor." 'Rosewater': Jon Stewart scores solid reviews in directing debut 2014-11-13T05:00:00Z A story that you half-expect to turn into a melodrama stays true to the sensibilities of its immature, painfully sincere characters, who are faced with life-changing decisions. Review: ‘The Young Kieslowski’ Is a Sobering Comedy of Consequences 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Heidi Gardner has developed a knack for portraying women in troubled relationships, dialing up the melodrama until she gets a laugh. Heidi Gardner Celebrates Easter … Candy 2023-04-01T04:00:00Z Ms. Zimmer was the first choice to play Quinn, because she can be fiery but also “vulnerable without melodrama,” Ms. Shapiro said. On ‘UnREAL,’ Constance Zimmer Leans In to Darkness 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z Her ability is, in the nature of the teenage supernatural-science fiction melodrama, a curse whose benefits must be discovered gradually. Review: ‘The Innocents’ on Netflix Is a Stylish, Slender Teen Romance 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z And there’s a moment toward the end — a man with a gun in a shooting party attended by his perceived rival — that blessedly does not conform to melodrama. Winter Sleep: Can a Three-Hour-Plus Prize-Winner Be Just Pretty Good? 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Her mode was melodrama, and she had an operatic tendency to exaggerate. Anna Nicole: the opera 2011-01-02T00:04:04Z The results are screamingly funny, even in a production that overdoes its spoofing of the play’s melodrama. Review | Bravo for reviving the play that scandalized Jane Austen’s world 2019-11-11T05:00:00Z But there are bursts of mawkishness and melodrama. 'Upstairs, Downstairs' sequel on TV; superior original now on DVD 2011-04-06T22:16:04Z But "Anonymous," filled with pumped-up melodrama and intrigue, never really engages us in the question of who wrote the plays. 'Anonymous': pretty silly, with Bard on the side 2011-10-26T22:23:04Z Though it could be classified, in conventional genre terms, as a melodrama of a forgotten woman. Best Pictures, Maybe, but Telluride Is Not About Oscars 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z He also prizes simplicity over melodrama, and the truth of gesture and corporeal emphasis over “acting.” Review | New York City Ballet: After the fall 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But this is a revival that no musical lover will want to miss — balm for a summer in which real-life tragedy and political melodrama have outstripped the offerings of our movie theaters and underemployed stages. Such glorious decay: The musical 'Grey Gardens' at the Ahmanson 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Towards the end, it might even be said to boil over into melodrama, but that doesn't take too much away from the unsettling resonance of the whole. Not the Booker prize: The Canal by Lee Rourke 2010-10-04T12:08:00Z For some these flashbacks are the emotional high points of the play; for others they are mawkish melodrama. Tyne Daly as Maria Callas vs. Maria Callas as Herself 2011-07-26T17:01:13Z The household, with its shifting allegiances and frequent misunderstandings, teeters between melodrama and sitcom. ‘Fire in the Mountains’ Review: The Mother of All Struggles 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z The same is true of Lemebel’s art: in celebrating melodrama, kitsch, extravagance, and vulgarity of all kinds, he reaffirmed the commitment he made in the title of his early “Manifesto.” A Surreal End for an Unforgettable Queen: Pedro Lemebel, 1952-2015 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z Spencer's Esther, in the meantime, floats along in a storyline that's less connected to the others but eventually takes on the perfume of tragic melodrama. A less sexy "Sanditon" doesn't evolve the plot, but so what? That's not why people watch 2022-03-20T04:00:00Z The posh, engrossing series about a titled British clan returns, with more pot-boiling melodrama than in its debut season. 'Downton Abbey' leads critics' picks 2012-01-08T04:05:44Z For all its skill and cunning, “Knock at the Cabin” is an overwrought quasi-theological melodrama that also manages to be a half-baked thought experiment. ‘Knock at the Cabin’ Review: Who’s There? The Apocalypse. 2023-02-02T05:00:00Z What’s old is new again in “Paper Towns,” a melodrama in which smiles still tremble, hands largely behave and freedom’s just another word for everything an ordinary boy doesn’t want to lose. Review: ‘Paper Towns’ Tries to Fold Significance Into the Everyday 2015-07-23T04:00:00Z Yet Mr. Arcady’s reliance on heavy-handed melodrama, on screaming women and on worried-looking men, winds everything so tightly that the anguish plateaus and the characters begin to seem like chess pieces in an argument. Review: ‘24 Days,’ About a Crime That Fed a Debate About Anti-Semitism 2015-04-23T04:00:00Z If the play itself, a family melodrama that tries on the poisonous humor of “August: Osage County” but can’t disguise a much softer heart, often feels prepackaged and overwrought — well, it’s a play, after all. Plenty of bite in 'Of Good Stock,' but a soft heart lurks within 2015-04-07T04:00:00Z Even as they lost the plot over the final few seasons, they supplied a luxury package of melodrama and spectacle that many found addictive. ‘House of the Dragon’ Review: Domesticating ‘Game of Thrones’ 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z He touches on mortality and his recent divorce without melodrama, and "Nod Your Head" and "Only Mama Knows" rock as hard as anything he’s done. Paul McCartney: Busting a few myths 2011-07-22T13:48:00Z And “Greenleaf” on OWN, a soapy-sincere melodrama set in a megachurch dynasty, has the kind of 3-D depiction of faith you can get only from a family whose life is religion. Where Is God on the Small Screen? 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z They share a deranged obsession with saccharine pop music and television melodramas, but are devoid of personal ambition, social ability or even self-awareness. Books of The Times: Cruel Stories of Youth: Numb, Violent and Aimless in Japan 2011-02-07T17:18:05Z Yes, it’s “a soapy, hysterically pitched melodrama drenched in sentimentalism and Old South cant” that helped perpetuate a gauzy Lost Cause myth that has romanticized oppression and valorized traitors for generations. Perspective | HBO Max isn’t censoring ‘Gone With the Wind.’ It’s reframing it. 2020-06-10T04:00:00Z “After all,” she notes, “melodrama comes from melos, which means ‘music,’ ‘honey’; a drama queen is, nonetheless, a queen.” Carmen Maria Machado’s Many Haunted Stories of a Toxic Relationship 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The kitchen supply room of the swanky hotel in “Queen of Basel” is stocked with just about everything — not the least of all, melodrama. Review | Two new plays want us to think about power and art. You may be thinking about where to eat afterward. 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z The series, for all its little melodramas, evokes the same Disney ethos in which every quirk is an opportunity for self-branding, often on a T-shirt. Movie Review: A Tutorial on Tolerance, With Beats and Upbeats 2011-08-11T22:18:11Z As an English professor, she is unhelpfully steeped in melodrama and illusion. In Laura Sims’s “Looker,” a Sad Voyeur Mistakes Her Own Life for a Poem 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Apart from the cheeky “When It Rains It Pours,” Combs’s earlier hits deployed lyrical melodrama juxtaposed with tender reads on hard-rock dynamics. Luke Combs and Miranda Lambert, Both Bound by Country’s Gendered Rule Book 2019-11-06T05:00:00Z The ballerina melodrama grossed $17 million from 45 markets, taking its tally to $122.6 million since its foreign campaign began on December 9. Black Swan leads foreign box office for 3rd weekend 2011-02-28T01:15:22Z “Family” offers Mr. Perry’s signature ingredients: multiple subplots; a Southern setting; and broad comedy, florid melodrama and inspirational Christianity, tossed together with an almost slapdash élan. | 'Madea?s Big Happy Family': A Fractious Family With Cancer on the Agenda 2011-04-24T21:46:55Z For all the melodrama, banality and silliness, it evokes a deeply mythic dimension of film to which millions are drawn as if under hypnotic command. Last Chance: Art Made Up of Movies Tells a Story All Its Own 2011-01-06T23:16:31Z I spoke with Dennis Lim, the film society’s director of programming and an organizer of “Emotion Pictures,” about the meaning of melodrama and what defines the 62 films in the series. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z For years, mental health issues have been ignored and treated as an easy television punchline, or even worse — as sappy melodrama. TV finally gets mental illness right — by laughing about it 2016-08-18T04:00:00Z It indicates his seamless transition to sound with a murder melodrama that seems keyed to the growing hysteria of real-life Berlin. Hope and Dread Are Infused in ‘Berlin Metropolis’ 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z "My Kind of Woman" delivers intimate truth minus much emo-rock melodrama. Which of Coachella's smaller acts will go on to make it big? 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z “There’s a lot of genre elements coming from the soap opera, Lifetime movie, melodrama world,” Jackson. New Musical From ‘Strange Loop’ Writer to Run Off Broadway 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the line, spoken near the end, that “there is always something authentic concealed in every forgery” — there’s something authentic here, lurking in the melodrama, pulling us in. ‘The Best Offer’: The art of melodrama 2014-01-23T22:35:03Z It was not his most successful work; the theater critic Michael Billington, writing in The Guardian, said it “gradually dwindled into implausible melodrama.” Donmar Warehouse Names Michael Longhurst as Artistic Director 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z Ms. Charlotte manages to cram both 9/11 and the Holocaust into about 90 minutes of chest-thumping melodrama, with an intelligently conceived central performance that all too often gets lost in the narrative mix. | 'The Shoemaker': A Life Stitched Together by 9/11 and the Holocaust 2011-07-26T21:30:38Z The star, Luke Evans, couldn’t fill seats with this twisty kidnap melodrama, but he’ll do better later this month: he’s the chief villain in Furious 6, the new entry in the Fast & Furious franchise. The Best Man: Gatsby Starts Big, Finishes Second to Iron Man 2013-05-12T20:08:16Z The amplified strings and electronic pianos create a rich ensemble sound that enhances the ebb and flow of the movie's melodrama. Dracula 2010-07-26T21:01:00Z It’s a strange film that has a tendency to plunge indiscriminately from raunch to melodrama, but it’s just about held together by the charisma of Richardson and his co-star Brittany Snow. Sam Richardson: ‘I love characters that are optimistic and sweet’ 2020-06-13T04:00:00Z Kim Jee-woon made a bunch of vivid melodramas, including A Bittersweet Life, I Saw the Devil and The Good, the Bad, the Weird, back in South Korea, where firearms are hard to come by. Hero Glock Dirty: Arnold’s Back, Guns Blazing, in The Last Stand 2013-01-18T13:00:02Z Thanks to the mood shift from melodrama to Gothic horror, and especially to Frid’s haunted grandeur, Dark Shadows exuded a spooky, sub-camp aroma for the next couple of years. Johnny Depp in Tim Burton's Dark Shadows: Death Warmed Over 2012-05-10T10:45:28Z “Very few filmmakers have managed to smile so convincingly in the face of misery and fatality,” A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times of this melodrama influenced by telenovelas and Hollywood weepies. What’s on TV Thursday: ‘The Great American Baking Show’ and ‘Top Chef’ 2016-12-01T05:00:00Z The beauty of melodrama is the power of excess. The Counterfeit Oscar Acting Style 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z How do we balance the melodrama with the reality? The incredible true story of “The Lovers and the Despot”: “Until North Korea collapses and we get access to the files, we’ll never know for sure” 2016-09-23T04:00:00Z Notable at least in part for its fumbled potential, this health-care-industry melodrama possesses all the right ingredients: an idealistic young lawyer, a corrupt corporate villain and a sympathetic victim. | 'Puncture': ?Pucture? Stars Chris Evans and Mark Kassen ? Review 2011-09-23T04:13:02Z She walks that tough line of high melodrama, demanding emotional investment in stories that nakedly display their own falseness. REVIEW: Lana Del Rey's Ultraviolence Is the Album We Need Right Now 2014-06-17T04:00:00Z “Eccentricities” is an improvement, but “Summer and Smoke” is nevertheless Williams, with veins of rich pathos to be mined from its melodrama. Review: Marin Ireland, on Fire in ‘Summer and Smoke’ 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z It helps that, as an actress, Ms. Erbe, best known for television’s “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” is naturally immune to melodrama, even when she’s in the middle of it. Theater Review: In ‘Ode to Joy,’ Characters Are Bonded by Addictions 2014-02-28T03:00:01Z Its execution shaded into melodrama, with Alicia chasing a man who turned out, predictably, not to be her lover. Review: ‘The Good Wife’ Ends With No Easy Answers 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Late in the story when someone finally asks Bruno, “What are you meant to be,” he dodges the question and in a flippant bit of feigned melodrama calls himself “The Martyr of Anarchy.” ‘A Gambler’s Anatomy’: Meet the James Bond of backgammon 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z As a doctor tells Jude, the melodrama’s human punching bag of a protagonist, “Only you know how much pain you can tolerate.” ‘A Little Life’ Review: A Collage of Unrelenting Torment 2022-10-21T04:00:00Z “The Solitude of Prime Numbers” is neither psychological drama nor plight-driven melodrama. Books of The Times: Paolo Giordano?s ?Solitude of Prime Numbers?: Scarred Souls 2010-03-11T22:53:00Z His hip-hop was blues-stricken, built around a wailing melodic flow that marked his tracks with melodrama and urgency. The Beautiful Vulnerability of Juice WRLD 2019-12-09T05:00:00Z Forget the singing competitions, cop shows, fairy-tale dramas and the “Mad Men”-style melodramas. This Year?s Hot TV Trend Is a Word 2011-09-21T20:30:20Z “The people this doesn’t affect find it to be an overly fantastic melodrama,” the director Nick Cassavetes told The Times in 2002. What’s on TV Wednesday: ‘Gloria: A Life’ and ‘My Spy’ 2020-07-01T04:00:00Z The final aria in Donizetti’s “Lucrezia Borgia,” an Oedipally charged melodrama about this most infamous of Renaissance power players, is notoriously difficult to sing. Review: LoftOpera’s ‘Lucrezia Borgia,’ With Flying Bottles of Beer and Poison 2015-04-06T04:00:00Z Jolson nuked that naked sentiment in the climactic moments of The Jazz Singer, the 1927 musical melodrama that cued Hollywood’s gold rush to talkies. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Nonetheless, the film’s most intense action and gravest danger is emotional; its melodrama suggests a much larger span of action, including flashbacks. A Nineteen-Fifties TV Series That Let Directors Run Free 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z Farcical, tongue-in-cheek and often just plain silly, “The Gentleman” pays homage to late Victorian melodrama and in its tone aspires to a P.G. ‘The Gentleman’: a Wodehouse wanna-be that (kind of) does 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z The more extreme colors — including an unlovely orange light that floods Ginny — pushes the whole thing into expressionism even as the movie fluctuates between kitchen-sink realism and hothouse melodrama. Review: ‘Wonder Wheel,’ Woody Allen’s Coney Island Memory Palace 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z If “The Edge of Seventeen” were a run-of-the-mill high school melodrama, Krista would be revealed as a selfish, scheming vixen and Darian as an arrogant jerk. Review: ‘The Edge of Seventeen’ Takes Teenage Movies to a Higher Place 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z Part of the way the novel avoids melodrama is its effective use of multiple perspectives, which results in a rich mosaic of voices that skillfully encapsulates the complexity of family. One Family, and One Multigenerational Curse, in the Texas Borderlands 2022-09-28T04:00:00Z It’s a worldwide hit, drawing in viewers from countries as diverse as Cambodia and Sweden with its frothy melodrama and its period costumes. America’s long obsession with “Downton Abbey”: How the show became a satire of Britishness 2015-01-05T05:00:00Z It is a classic melodrama with a lot of graphic sex. Sexually Explicit 3-D Film Inspires Pans and Walkouts at Cannes 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Philip Franks directs a revival of a play that requires huge restraint if it is not to tip over into parodies of clipped 1950s accents and melodrama. This week's new theatre 2011-07-08T23:09:07Z The British actress will be following in the footsteps of Hollywood legend Joan Crawford who famously played the part in a 1945 film noir melodrama. 'Very different Mildred' 2011-03-24T10:30:47Z Repurposing the soapy structure and gaudy style of Egyptian melodrama, both men cleverly expose a society hobbled by fear of female autonomy. | 'Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story': A TV Host Seeks Fluff, but Real Life Intrudes 2011-08-11T22:45:54Z The spartan world of Martin Koolhoven's sober, well-made World War II melodrama, "Winter in Wartime," is a rustic blue-gray landscape of woods and snow-covered roads through which armed German soldiers roam in trucks. 'Winter in Wartime': Nazis and the mysteries of adult life, through a teen's eyes 2011-04-14T21:56:10Z Yapa’s single concession to melodrama is that Victor is the stepson of Seattle’s white police chief, Bishop. A novelist’s soul-searching rewind to the 1999 eruption on Seattle’s streets 2015-12-29T05:00:00Z There’s lot of this breathy melodrama, useful for the screenplay I hope is coming. The Harvard Professor Who Told the World That Jesus Had a Wife 2020-08-11T04:00:00Z Over the years, the genuineness of Alicia’s growing desperation has elevated “The Good Wife” from a melodrama about power and betrayal into a nearly philosophical meditation on the risks inherent in moral life. What Was “The Good Wife” Really About? 2016-05-19T04:00:00Z Though if the goal was to steer the focus away from predatory exploitation and toward conventional melodrama, mission accomplished. ‘A Teacher’ Review: After School, Not So Special 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z The electronic parameters of Internet relationships mean that you get to enjoy the benefits of other peoples' enthusiasm without the accompanying melodrama. What I'll miss about Blockbuster 2010-07-19T15:01:00Z Instead, they gently nose you into a classic western milieu while simultaneously pulling you into a simmering family melodrama about two adult children grappling with each other and their terminally ill father. ‘Montana Story’ Review: A Domestic Drama in Big Sky Country 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z In effect, he transformed the codes and tones of the breezy domestic comedy into a grave tale of sharp social perceptions—converted comedy into melodrama. Movie of the Week: “The Break-Up” 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Reviews complained about the songs or objected to the melodrama. ‘One Sings, the Other Doesn’t’: Agnès Varda’s Polarizing Paean to Sisterhood 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Claude-Michel Schönberg’s musical melodrama about an ill-fated romance between a Vietnamese sex worker and an American G.I. during the Vietnam War has polarized opinion ever since it was first staged in 1989. Can ‘Miss Saigon’ Be Saved? Two British Shows Disagree. 2023-07-18T04:00:00Z Instead it’s very jolting and intense in a way that doesn’t resemble more classical melodramas. He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The whirlwind plot increasingly beggared belief; there were CBeebies-levels of expository dialogue; the melodrama was unintentionally hilarious. 'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now 2021-03-23T04:00:00Z The show treats the case as a quintessential New Orleans hothouse melodrama. "Sins and Secrets": The perfect antidote to the sleazy crime show 2011-02-17T15:18:00Z A silent film moreover imposes a certain way of experiencing the film on the spectator, so melodrama and a love story fit best with that format. Ssh, no talking: Silent movie charms Cannes fest 2011-05-15T14:31:11Z He has two key subplots and he milks them both for melodrama. With "Critical Thinking," John Leguizamo directs a rousing "Stand and Deliver"-style chess story 2020-09-02T04:00:00Z The always-superb fights are accompanied by unexpectedly gripping scenes of high melodrama and even flickers of camp; as much as anything yet from Synetic, this has the texture of a good old-fashioned movie. Synetic’s ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ has action and unexpected melodrama 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z “Titanic” was the unsinkable champion that night, having tied the 1950 melodrama “All About Eve” with a record fourteen Oscar nominations. Oscar Spotlight: Best Director and Best Picture 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z For all the melodrama inherent in his tragedy, Euripides maintains a critical distance that allows him to interrogate the deeper meanings of his play. 'Mojada' at the Getty Villa convincingly updates Greek tragedy to modern-day L.A. 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z Amazing because of the "chaos" in which the film was born – what the producer Walter Wanger, in a downbeat diary mocked-up after the fact, called "melodrama not in the script". Cleopatra and Heaven's Gate: the last of the great Hollywood stinkers? 2013-07-19T13:00:00Z On its own, the depressing family drama would be bearable, but Hobson loses her thread when “Summer Cannibals” veers into frenetic, upsetting, slapdash melodrama. Three Canadian Novels Test the Bonds — and Boundaries — of Family 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z The Times called it "melancholic, mysterious and heartbreakingly gorgeous" while the Guardian said it sometimes read as "artless melodrama". Going it alone 2010-04-20T17:35:00Z On stage more than on records, Brown turned “Please, Please, Please” into fervent melodrama with a comic undercoating. REVIEW: 'Get On Up' Is a Loud, Proud and Oscar-Worthy James Brown Biopic 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Daniels, who cites shows like “Dynasty” and “Dallas” as influences on “Empire,” said the soap-opera format could offer ways to cloak serious themes of race and class in layers of melodrama. The Cast and Director of ‘Empire’ Discuss Their New Show 2014-12-24T05:00:00Z The delicate emotions are rendered without melodrama or excess. In the affable "Call Me Chihiro," a former sex worker provides friendly bento comforts to all 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z “Beyond a Reasonable Doubt” might have been named for his 1920 melodrama, “The Weary Death”; set in Weimar Berlin it could have been a gem. Sam Fuller and Fritz Lang: Audacious Auteurs of Noir 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z If regular old Hollywood melodrama, rendering bourgeois passions operatic, provokes chuckles even among its devotees, Bergman’s infusion of middle-class anguish with metaphysical heights and existential depths risks unleashing a laugh riot. Ingmar Bergman and the Risk of Ridicule 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Stoical and selfless, Horacia resembles one of the suffering mothers of classic Hollywood melodrama. Review: ‘The Woman Who Left’ Is an Epic, Intimate Tale of Injustice 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z Songs such as Power and Lost in the World make West's glitzy, paranoid melodrama sound as exciting as anything in pop. Kanye West's fantasy has come true ? critics believe the hype 2010-11-23T13:23:00Z It’s a melodrama, to be sure, but with as much brain as heart. Love and Other Ties That Bind in This Fall’s Y.A. Novels 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z “I love melodrama,” he told The Times in an interview. John Jakes, Whose Historical Novels Hit the Jackpot, Dies at 90 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z This goes some way to explaining the bleakness and cynical sense of destiny in Sharp's films, which he called "existential melodramas". Alan Sharp 2013-02-14T11:40:41Z Curdling Texan noir and melodrama in a bizarre, curiously fascinating thriller. This week's new films 2012-06-29T23:05:18Z To work, that sort of stagily written melodrama needs stakes about which we truly care. Bateman's Stab at High Drama 0002-11-29T05:00:00Z With fearless acuity, and pitch-perfect performances in the key of scream, Spacek and Laurie played the melodrama as high tragedy, of a diseased couple whose enmity is trumped only by their pathetic love. Carrie: A Remake Not Worth the Blood or Bother 2013-10-18T21:34:26Z Ms. Aladag, an Austrian-born actress with many film and television credits in that country, Germany and Britain, works in the quiet, stricken tones of modern socially conscious melodrama. | 'When We Leave': When Two Cultures Collide Under One Roof 2011-01-27T23:45:37Z Libertine libretto … R Kelly says he has written a further 85 episodes of hit musical melodrama Trapped in the Closet. R Kelly to unleash Trapped in the Closet on Broadway 2012-11-21T12:58:42Z It’s a superb romantic melodrama that should have propelled Wagner into the front ranks of Hollywood directors and advanced its stars’ careers, as well. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z To my eye, Shakespeare's corrupted DNA still coils inside, curled idiosyncratically around his co-author Fletcher's, squeezing every drop of pulpy melodrama out of Cervantes' original Cardenio chapters. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z Sure, her music sometimes borders on melodrama, but it’s a hell of a lot more original than singing over R&B beats like everyone else. Your week in Seattle music: Zola Jesus, Bubba Sparxxx and more 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z Until I encountered his potent brew of minstrelsy and melodrama I hadn’t known it was possible — except perhaps in plays like “Bootycandy,” by Mr. O’Hara — to cringe and laugh and blush at the same time. Review: Race and Sex in Plantation America in ‘Slave Play’ 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z Mr. Andrews and his team remind us that there can be truth in melodrama. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z “When I say his disinterest was excruciating, it’s often seen as teen melodrama,” said Ms. Ramirez, who is now 47. Can We Fall Out of Love? 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z Nothing is hyped with melodrama — or even, in some cases, entirely explained. 4000 Miles: The Best Play of the Season, Hands Down 2012-05-15T10:00:21Z Back in 2010, the “teen TV” landscape was dominated by the brooding One Tree Hill, the privileged otherworld of Gossip Girl and 90210’s LA melodrama. #PLLGameOver: Farewell Pretty Little Liars, the most fancentric TV show yet 2017-06-29T04:00:00Z Part melodrama and part Cold War thriller, that film won an Oscar in 2007 and was embraced by many critics, including this one, for its blend of suspense and ethical precision. ‘Never Look Away’ Review: A Lush Adventure in Sex, Politics and Painting 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The anomie that characterizes many 1970s films we love has always drifted in and out of Hollywood, in gangster films, melodramas, noirs. A Movie House Divided 2022-09-07T04:00:00Z The simple set by Cameron Anderson evokes a black-and-white film, and the singers slip into the posturing style of silent-era melodrama. Gotham Chamber Opera Opens Season 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z Shameless is modern melodrama; it's gaudy characters, implausible plots and exaggerated reactions are designed as an assault on finer sensibilities. Shameless: Why Frank Gallagher must die 2011-01-10T11:16:00Z It’s weighed down by melodrama and long-winded reflections on the price of fame. Have You Heard the One About the Angsty Comic? Yes, Too Often 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z You will not see “If I Can’t” opening the New York Film Festival, but this year’s actual opener, “May December,” relies on boundary-breaking melodrama and the truths that lie within. Tubi Is Rewriting the Rules of Black Indie Movies (for Free) 2023-07-12T04:00:00Z Aldridge and Somerset cut out most of the carnage and interpolated at least one scene from a contemporary melodrama that Aldridge had also starred in. Let It Bleed: The Perverse Influence of ‘Titus Andronicus’ 2019-04-04T04:00:00Z There are hints of farce, droplets of melodrama, a few dangling loose ends and an overall mood of sloppy, tolerant cynicism. | 'You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger': Facing the Void With Faith in Mumbo-Jumbo 2010-09-21T16:29:00Z It accomplishes this not by means of melodrama, but by a mixture of understatement and thriller-worthy suspense. Movie Review: ‘What Maisie Knew’ Stars Julianne Moore and Steve Coogan 2013-05-02T21:53:30Z Archway Studio/Theatre’s first production in their new location is this farcical western melodrama. L.A. theater openings, April 12-19: 'Loopholes: A Pain in the I.R.S.' and more 2015-04-09T04:00:00Z “Purple Hearts” had the potential to be a poignant melodrama — or maybe a sharp satire — about the options available to those left behind by the U.S. health care system. ‘Purple Hearts’ Review: A Marriage of Convenience 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z It is a scene that could have been in any of “the hood movies” that once proliferated or even a Tyler Perry melodrama in which Christian values would be affirmed after this bit of titillation. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z But his work exerts an odd fascination on me: for it brazenly mixes calculation and naïveté, Christian values and chitlin-circuit earthiness, rowdy jokes and the most convulsive melodrama. Madea's Big Happy Family: Tyler Perry's Drag Ball 2011-04-24T14:05:00Z Perfectly understanding its target audience's infatuation with romantic tragedy, this plays its melodrama straight and faces its harsh realities fairly full on, even when mediated through the gauze of a Love Story-lite soft filter. Mark Kermode's DVD round-up 2013-01-27T00:06:05Z History is all intrigues and executions, beautiful ineffectual ladies and poisoning queens, love-stories and villainies, steeped in Dickensian melodrama and embroidered with the theatrical effects of a Bleak House or an Oliver Twist. Remember Roger Mortimer 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Naturalism meets melodrama in this harrowing, hectic tale of a lost boy’s adventures in the slums and shantytowns of Beirut. The Best Movies of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z “Grey House,” at the Lyceum Theater, is certainly an in-your-face assault, more in the manner of John Carpenter movies than anything seen onstage since the age of melodrama. Review: In ‘Grey House,’ Broadway Gets an Expert Haunting 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z You find yourself trying to shake these thoughts from your head: scepticism is far preferable to the sheer melodrama, the vast nexus of collaboration and corruption it implies. Rose McGowan: 'I won't be free of Harvey Weinstein until he's dead – or I am' 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z Too much of it feels like a grade-B melodrama about secret agents or undercover cops fighting a drug cartel. "V": How to fix ABC's struggling alien invasion series 2011-02-22T15:40:00Z But what is meant to be a political parable, or even just a moody crime saga, is cut short by the dissonance between its self-serious attitude and the rough-edged execution of its melodrama. ‘Back to the Wharf’ Review: Ghosts of the Past 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z The choppy melodrama leaves "Half of a Yellow Sun" feeling not quite so whole. 'Half of a Yellow Sun' doesn't add up to a satisfying whole 2014-05-23T04:00:00Z Its rendering of a quintessentially American tale of race, sex, religion and money teeters between glib revisionism and zombie mythology, unsure if it wants to be a lavish pop fable or a tragic melodrama. ‘Elvis’ Review: Shocking the King Back to Life 2022-06-23T04:00:00Z Is melodrama more a function of content or style? He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z Still, the surprising thing is the emotional quality of encounters that dive headlong into the plot’s high melodrama. Synetic’s ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ has action and unexpected melodrama 2016-05-16T04:00:00Z The former swimmer on Britain’s Olympic team has been busy churning out moderate-budget melodramas whose ad lines aptly describe their content. Hansel & Gretel Grab Some Candy on a Skimpy Weekend 2013-01-27T16:18:04Z Everyone in Lee Daniels' lurid, jittery melodrama "The Paperboy" seems to stand too close to each other; the sweat-slicked characters shimmer in the Florida sun, moving as if the air is thick. Meandering 'Paperboy' misses the mark 2012-10-11T20:07:05Z A monument to the pre-show pint ... the Cut bar in London's Young Vic theatre The Drunkard, a melodrama that debuted in New York in 1844, was once the most popular play in America. Where are New York's theatre bars? 2011-08-04T10:48:14Z It often feels as if Tennessee Williams' gothic southern sensibility had been involved in a fatal dramatic collision with a Victorian melodrama and an X-rated episode of EastEnders. Gutted – review 2013-05-07T15:50:21Z Like most melodramas meant to uplift, "Unconditional" is contrived and simplistic. 'Unconditional': a religious message, shouted softly 2012-09-20T20:49:08Z But whenever "Pullman Porter Blues" swaps music and wit for melodrama and polemics, immediacy shrivels into sermonizing. 'Pullman Porter Blues' carries pungent blues and heavy melodrama 2012-10-05T20:06:04Z Carl Wilkinson, in the Financial Times, called it "elegantly wrought, measured and without an ounce of melodrama". Flanagan wins Man Booker Prize 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z It's a melodrama, in which people who barely know each other claim to love one another and agonize over a supposedly lifelong decision. Why is the third season of "Love Is Blind" so disappointing? Because we seen its type before 2022-11-26T05:00:00Z Apart from "Lelio's" impractical scoring for narrator, vocal soloists, piano, orchestra and small choruses, however, there is one big reason the melodrama is hardly ever heard, and that is its long, narcissistic narration. Muti and the CSO at Carnegie Hall: Feel the love 2011-04-17T20:27:00Z Reviewing “Targets” in The New York Times, Howard Thompson called it an “original and brilliant melodrama.” Polly Platt, Producer and Production Designer, Dies at 72 2011-07-29T04:58:06Z That I didn’t miss the romantic melodrama is an indication of how good her new show is. Andrea Marcovicci at the Café Carlyle 2012-10-09T21:01:11Z The prime-time soap operas, stuffed with melodrama and romance, are generally the programming backbone for Spanish-speaking networks. Ryan Seacrest becoming Telemundo kingmaker 2013-05-12T22:38:07Z It’s a quiet, observant movie, with an aversion to melodrama and a sense of the ordinary that recalls old films like “Marty,” and its gentle nostalgia feels honest and unforced. New York Film Festival Offers Quiet Treasures and a Little Jazz 2015-10-06T04:00:00Z But the title character in Betty Shamieh’s bouncy, bumpy comic melodrama — a Classical Theater of Harlem production that opened this week at 3LD Art & Technology Center in the financial district — is the real thing. Review: ‘Fit for a Queen’ Sees ‘Dynasty’ Centuries Before the TV Show 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z And despite the sensational elements in the drama—in addition to euthanasia, there is marital betrayal and the burning of important letters—Wharton sought to avoid the exploitative methods of melodrama. A Lost Edith Wharton Play Emerges from Scholarly Sleuthing 2017-05-26T04:00:00Z A fine-tuned melodrama about a wealthy Mississippi family undone by its patriarch’s cancer diagnosis, the play melts down the characters’ kept-up appearances and oft-mentioned “mendacity” as they scramble for his inheritance. Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ Knows Its Good Angles 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z This, however, reeks of simplistic moralizing, is lousy with hackneyed dialogue and filled ludicrously contrived melodrama that only pours out of writers and director who think they understand racism but really, really don’t. 26 films Rotten Tomatoes got 100% wrong 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z In recollection, the bulk of the melodrama of “La Bayadère” collapsed like a fallen soufflé. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s ?La Bayad?re,? at Lincoln Center 2010-05-19T22:05:00Z Every time Mr. Giamatti gamely leans into the melodrama, it backfires. Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z A popular melodrama of 1771, Richard Cumberland's The West Indian, satirised planters as drunken layabouts in ostentatiously buckled shoes and hats. Sugar in the Blood: A Family's Story of Slavery and Empire by Andrea Stuart – review 2012-07-20T21:54:01Z Without the distinguished cast, its highbrow melodramas would seem ludicrous. This week's new films 2013-04-06T05:00:08Z And the amnesia book, which revealed all the melodrama in a family’s efforts to forget the horrible death of a baby named Jonah, lets its terrible secret remain buried. Books of The Times: Carolyn Parkhurst?s Third Novel, ?The Nobodies Album? 2010-06-09T20:24:00Z Everything else was good to superior, and scene by scene, even when the story bordered on melodrama or enlightened piety, the storytelling was believable, engaging, subtle and subtly humorous. 'The Knick' Recap: Sins of the Flesh, With a Kick 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Needless to say, there are complications, some farcical, some belonging more to the realm of therapeutic melodrama. Movie Review: ‘Hello I Must Be Going,’ Starring Melanie Lynskey 2012-09-06T23:04:51Z But Mr. Jha doesn’t stint on the melodrama, unabashedly pitting smirking corruption against heroic rectitude. | 'Aarakshan': A Battle for India?s Soul 2011-08-12T12:21:08Z A domestic melodrama in an anguished key, “Waves” is the story of a Florida family nearly undone by a shocking tragedy. ‘Waves’ Review: The Shattering Ebb and Flow of Family Life 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Not only did Benito Mussolini centralize the industry in Rome, founding Cinecittà Film Studios in 1937, but he objected to the Neapolitan penchant for melodramas, often set in working-class environments, and spoken in dialect. Naples, a City of Contradictions, Is Once Again a Home for Cinema 2021-12-17T05:00:00Z Anna Winger, the show's creator, describes it as a screwball melodrama. "Oh, Britta's in this?": Gillian Jacobs on playing a WWII hero and never leaving "Community" behind 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z What she ended up with is a mother-daughter story that, like a Brecht play or a Fassbinder melodrama, achieves its emotional force through indirection and distance. Lip-Syncing the Realities of a Tragic Life 2011-04-22T23:43:02Z Ultimately, even after momentarily falling apart in a fit of paranoia, Martin remains a cipher in a movie that never fulfills its potential as melodrama. Movie Review: Orlando Bloom, in ‘The Good Doctor,’ Sends Danger Signals 2012-08-30T23:43:23Z So he alternates between implausible slapstick and gooey melodrama. "Lottery Ticket" has no winners 2010-08-16T03:01:00Z Fortunately, Ms Morris is not overwhelmed by the melodrama of Luce’s life. A woman of substance 2014-07-17T04:00:00Z The townspeople, in contrast, are blinded by melodrama. The Russian Comic Writer Who’s an Antidote to Mad Times 2018-05-02T04:00:00Z Then, quickly and without melodrama, he descended to the floor to kiss the stage itself. Goodbye to All That Blaze: Joaquin De Luz Dances His Farewell 2018-10-16T04:00:00Z “Lost Flowers” is a reminder that when it is handled with skill, sophistication and a measure of restraint, melodrama can be as satisfying as any other style of storytelling. ‘The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart’ Review: The Right Kind of Melodrama 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western. Review: ‘Dragon Boat Racing,’ a Sea of Love and Music 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z I didn't want to make a melodrama or show the women as victims. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z There are a few moments of melodrama here, and some passages that seem effective rather than inspired. Review: Dark Suspicions in Jumps and Gestures in ‘The Winter’s Tale’ 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z The team is so winning that the film's lapse into outright melodrama — when the mother of an orphan returns for her son — is forgivable. Aw, shucks! "12 Mighty Orphans" is the Depression-era underdog sports hokum you've been missing 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z On stage, he loves to play both the very evil characters and the very good, winding up the melodrama to an extraordinary degree. Imagined Meetings With Joyce, Dickens, Hardy, and Lawrence 2015-09-15T04:00:00Z Instead, there’s a matter-of-fact quality to the filmmaking, a rejection of melodrama and embrace of naturalism that slows the movie’s pulse and softens its edges. ‘Bull’ Review: A Lot to Wrangle With 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z In the end, Hartnell's script rushes to pile everything in, as the story slants into melodrama and sentimentality. 1920s Montana comes to life in Book-It's 'Prairie Nocturne' 2012-02-17T18:44:05Z He has prospered, at least some of the time, by assuming that there's a somewhat literate grown-up audience out there that wants a whole bunch of talking packed around its romance and action and melodrama. "Love and Other Drugs": Jake Gyllenhaal and Anne Hathaway get naked 2010-11-23T20:37:00Z In "Butterfield 8," however, she serenely inhabits the melodrama in exactly the way that cinema encourages audiences to live through its stars. Elizabeth Taylor, from beauty icon to punchline 2011-03-23T22:30:00Z Not only wasn't it nominated, the circus melodrama with the reportedly staggering camera work no longer survives, in any form. Oscars: That didn't get nominated? 2011-02-18T16:49:00Z If it manages to avoid melodrama, it will be a high point in the history of the American miniseries. “Dirty John”: Looks, and TV Adaptations, Can Be Deceiving 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z The company’s young actors tend to overplay the melodrama, considering the close quarters in which they’re working. ‘No Exit’: Ready for your close-up 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z He proposed that Fellowes create a series with the same social stratification, politesse and melodrama. Fans are up for 'Downton Abbey' starting season 4 2014-01-02T15:40:23Z The plot lurches and meanders, stapling tepid scenes of comedy to flimsy bits of melodrama with musical passages and repetitive long shots of the pretty countryside. In ‘The Hundred-Foot Journey,’ Kitchen Wars Break Out 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z Perhaps the most scrutinized film at Toronto will be “The Birth of a Nation,” a sweeping antebellum melodrama with scenes of horrifying violence. Toronto Film Festival: Just Don’t Call Them ‘Black Films’ 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z “La La Land” succeeds both as a fizzy fantasy and a hard-headed fable, a romantic comedy and a showbiz melodrama, a work of sublime artifice and touching authenticity. Review: Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone Aswirl in ‘La La Land’ 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z Pulp-influenced, using melodrama as a device for social commentary, Fuller’s movies are gritty, naturalistic if not always realistic, relying on odd camera angles and cuts to reinforce the instability of the world. On his birthday: Samuel Fuller, novelist? 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z If “I’m Glad My Mother Is Alive” were a shallow, emotionally manipulative melodrama, it might exploit the palpable erotic undertow in Thomas and Julie’s love-hate courtship. | 'I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive': ?I?m Glad My Mother Is Alive? - Review 2011-09-01T21:57:49Z Boucicault’s melodrama was a great hit in its day but is now almost never performed, except possibly as a camp diversion for private amusement. Review: ‘An Octoroon,’ a Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Comedy About Race 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z I was gripped by its melodrama, but its nightmarish view of both ballet and women is not one I’m keen to see again. Critic?s Notebook: The Many Faces of ?Black Swan,? Deconstructed 2011-02-09T23:04:37Z That’s a tough combination to pull off, especially without the critical distance, deep feeling and laughter that turn an ordinary melodrama into an Almodóvar. Review: ‘Nocturnal Animals,’ Brutality Between the Pages and Among the Fabulous 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z It didn’t always work; sometimes the show crashed full-on into melodrama. In ‘Underground’ Delivering Justice Along With Escapist Entertainment 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Among the 50 or so features chosen by Festival boss Marc Mueller are prestige Hollywood product, adventurous European films, Asian melodramas and some unclassifiable oddities. Postcards from Venice: 10 for the Show 2011-09-09T02:50:00Z Stripped of melodrama and its pace quickened, her minimalist “Man That Got Away” changed from a cry of anguish into a wistful remembrance of enduring some emotional hard knocks. Music Review: Rebecca Kilgore’s ‘Jazzy Side of Judy Garland,’ at Feinstein’s 2012-08-01T21:24:07Z But in this revival its tendency to melodrama shows. The Vortex – review 2013-02-15T16:08:24Z And then creating an ongoing narrative that revisits issues week to week, upping the ante but not falling into melodrama or worse – desensitization – is another challenge. What’s your damage? Why a "Heathers" TV adaptation hasn’t worked — yet 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Aladag works in the quiet, stricken tones of modern socially conscious melodrama. 'When We Leave': Clashing cultures, stifled freedom ? and great acting 2011-04-07T19:23:04Z “At times, the drama he aims at is off-target melodrama and his stylization threatens to topple over as a mannered excess.” Bob Dylan, More Than a Songwriter 2016-10-13T04:00:00Z Mina's script – presented in a translation by April de Angelis – springs very few surprises, and often confuses melodrama for emotion. Tutto Bene, Mamma? – review 2013-06-28T14:06:41Z The group sometimes shambled into a free-flowing rubato right in the middle of a fast tune, but it maintained conviction, and avoided melodrama. January in Live Jazz: 5 Standout Shows 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z With an admitted taste for genre movies and a talent for making relevant melodrama, Audiard says that infusing the plot of "Dheepan" with ideas on subjects like immigration, refugees and family was second nature. Jacques Audiard finds romance pulsing in steely 'Dheepan' 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Silberman’s songs risk — and rise above — melodrama on the way to a sorrowful majesty. | The Antlers: Strumming Off This Mortal Coil 2009-12-17T05:48:00Z This road movie from Mario Van Peebles feels disappointingly slight, with a twist near the end that turns the whole thing into melodrama. Your guide to SIFF 2011 2011-05-18T20:00:54Z She won the next year for negligible work in the hoary melodrama Dangerous – a transparent makeup award if ever there was one. The 10 best Oscar snubs 2016-02-26T05:00:00Z Still an exquisite display of intellectual melodrama a quarter-century after Stephen Daldry’s landmark production premiered. Perspective | Best of theater 2018: Distinguished visitors and hometown heroes 2018-12-04T05:00:00Z The results are an exuberant hodgepodge of genres, including an action thriller, a samurai fantasy epic and an astonishing melodrama of race, passion and family honor set on a 19th-century plantation. Critic?s Notebook: New Directors/New Films at the Film Society of Lincoln Center 2012-03-20T22:30:26Z Forty years ago the notorious blaxploitation era was in full stride with crime melodramas its stock and trade. ?Pariah? Reveals Another Side of Being Black in the U.S. 2011-12-23T18:57:21Z Perhaps he has precisely that smart, non-macho sensibility that Poehler’s gag hinted was the key to appreciating the tongue-in-cheek tragicomic melodrama of awards season. Neil Patrick Harris: an Oscars host not a million miles from Seth MacFarlane 2014-10-16T04:00:00Z Elsewhere, Acorn TV heads to India with “The Good Karma Hospital,” an escapist medical melodrama. What’s on TV Monday: The Great American Eclipse and ‘The Good Karma Hospital’ 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z And in its depiction of a deadly vampire feud involving the Ohio branch of something called the Vampire Council, “Reginald” also invokes — by way of satirizing — the HBO vampire melodrama “True Blood.” On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z If Mr. Comstock shuns melodrama, Ms. Fasano allows just a little. 2010-02-11T23:35:00Z Great conceptual artists like Taymor are rarely comfortable with melodrama, which has struggled for respect throughout history. 'Spider-Man' stuck in a tangled web 2011-02-07T23:36:14Z That may be why we can relate more to the Millers with all their unenviable flaws and the melodrama mother and daughter create around them. "Ginny & Georgia" isn't "Gilmore Girls" redux – it's darker, riskier and far more fun 2021-02-25T05:00:00Z Nabil's photographs and films evoke the glamour and melodrama of the 1940s golden age of Egyptian cinema. In pictures: From the Middle East 2012-11-13T01:05:32Z With its noble Irish rebels and gormless peasants being chased by redcoats through the Wicklow hills, this melodrama from 1865 seems to require a tongue-in-cheek approach. Arrah-na-Pogue ? review 2011-01-11T23:00:00Z Pushing beyond its arthouse comfort zone, Italian romantic melodrama I Am Love saw its screen count rise from 35 to 47 screens, while box office declined by 34%. UK audiences send Dear John to top of box-office chart 2010-04-20T10:13:00Z On that account, you forgive some of the musical’s disappointments, such as a second act that wrenches into ersatz, lachrymose melodrama, and focus instead on an inspired night of singing and dancing. Review | Will you love ‘Moulin Rouge!’ as a stage musical? Well, you’ll certainly fall in like. 2019-07-25T04:00:00Z The Endangered Species Project's latest reading of a forgotten classic features Sidney Howard's "The Silver Cord," a 1926 melodrama about the battle between a young scientist determined to Have It All and her controlling mother-in-law. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week beginning Nov. 11, 2012 2012-11-09T19:19:42Z There’s been no reason to doubt her yet, but “Happier Than Ever” can’t help but feel transitional, a liminal space between the aggrieved, phantasmagoric teen melodrama of her debut and whatever bright thing comes next. Review | On ‘Happier Than Ever’ Billie Eilish delivers a second album that shows she wasn’t just a whisper 2021-08-01T04:00:00Z Cary Grant actually bellows the song “The Peanut Vendor” minutes after a colleague’s death in this Howard Hawks gem that can best be described as a screwball romantic action flyboy melodrama. Movie Listings for Nov. 7-13 2014-11-06T05:00:00Z Ever since he left the Bronx boy band Aventura a decade ago to go solo, the bachata luminary Romeo Santos has been teaching a graduate seminar in melodrama. Romeo Santos Reveals Another Volume of Boundary-Crossing Bachata 2022-08-31T04:00:00Z Cable dramas encouraged voters to root for a chaotic, rule-breaking antihero; melodramas like “Scandal” and “House of Cards” normalized a nihilistic view of all politics as intrinsically corrupt, existentially conspiratorial. The Search for Pizzazz at the Impeachment Reality Show 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z Each season, “The Real World” offers us the pleasures of a melodrama in the wholesome packaging of social science. Thirty Seasons of “The Real World” 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z Nothing — including a happy ending — is as it seems in this accelerating swirl of political and academic satire, science fiction and romantic melodrama. Review | Joyce Carol Oates has seen hell, and it’s 1950s Wisconsin 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z But with Woodruff in the interviewer's seat, the whole thing played out like the hoariest Victorian melodrama. 2010-01-30T13:30:00Z The film’s tone becomes mawkish, akin to a Lifetime movie that flaunts a little bite before it wallows in melodrama. In ‘Isn’t It Delicious,’ a Controlling Mother Tries to Reform 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z If the episode is titled “Loved Ones,” should fans of the hit FX thriller “The Strain” expect an overabundance of missing momma melodrama? 'The Strain' recap: Beware of your loved ones 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z A road movie of sorts, it steers clear of melodrama or sentimentality, but it also never risks hitting anything. Review: In ‘The Desert Bride,’ a Maid Hits the Road in Argentina 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z As the film goes on, it drifts into the arena of melodrama. Peter Mullan's Neds heads London film festival's most-awaited list 2010-10-21T16:37:00Z We do like irony, we like punctuating the melodrama. Sofie Gråbøl: ‘Lars von Trier is a very caring person… he's not like his films’ 2018-12-08T05:00:00Z Rather than sweep, with Buñuelian mischief, from melodrama to black comedy to surrealist pastiche, it hesitates among those possibilities, as if unable to calculate the proper ratio of sincerity to camp. Movie Review: Taking Up With a Maid Might Upset the Family 2011-01-20T22:00:38Z They approached the cold war as melodrama and McCarthyism by way of allegory. Oscars 2013: and the overall winner is … politics 2013-02-23T23:22:53Z Without relying on melodrama or nostalgia, Alvarez embraces the inescapable nature of impermanence. 'The Sky Turns': capturing the essence of impermanence 2011-08-18T23:24:04Z It’s a masculine melodrama that doubles as a fable of social catastrophe. Review: ‘Manchester by the Sea’ and the Tides of Grief 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z And woe comes along with considerable variety and dispatch in this rip-roaring melodrama. Review: In ‘’Tis Pity,’ Forbidden Love, the Most Attractive Kind 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z The tone and substance toggle abruptly among satire, melodrama and morality play. Review: ‘Trust’ Is Flashy but Ephemeral 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z This guy is about as shallow as they make 'em and I'd rather watch Noah have a violent hallucination than suffer through the Cole melodrama. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 8: People See What They Want to See 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Think of “Stars” as a tale of two shows: the reality is the performance, while the actual melodrama of dance is captured during rehearsals. ?Dancing With the Stars? Keeps Rising in Popularity 2010-04-19T22:23:00Z The big stuff and the small stuff have to stand somehow in relation to each other; Dubus must navigate between melodrama and sentimentality. He Killed Her Mother. Now He Wants to Make Amends. 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z But why would we want stars, those shiny embodiments of melodrama and talent and glamour, to be just like us? How Hollywood scandal was born 2014-10-09T04:00:00Z Because it is a melodrama, all ends happily, of course, with Middleton’s rescue from Skid Row by a wealthy philanthropist who is a sort of 19th-century Bill W. and Dr. Bob all rolled into one. | 'The Drunkard': Saved, Before Alcoholics Anonymous 2010-10-04T21:32:00Z The result is an old-timey comic melodrama about the pitfalls of artistic pride and the power of romantic redemption that earned sustained applause at its first press screening, a rarity for notoriously snooty Cannes critics. Ssh, no talking: Silent movie charms Cannes fest 2011-05-15T14:31:11Z Death, in those more innocent times, still meant something, even if that “something” was merely cheap melodrama. Why Superhero Deaths Have Become Meaningless 2013-02-28T14:30:51Z The energy and anger of youth-oriented cinema was in stark contrast to the lush melodramas, saturated with longing and Technicolor, which were popular elsewhere. From Godzilla to Some Like it Hot – why the 1950s is my favourite film decade 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z While it’s refreshing to see a young company tackle period melodrama, the show, from spit&vigor, is erratic rather than rollicking. Review: ‘The Execution of Mrs. Cotton’ Is More Erratic Than Rollicking 2016-07-18T04:00:00Z Ocean has a flair for crafting gripping songs and this album does not lack melodrama, featuring haunting melodies paired with driving beats and touching lyrics similar to the elusive brilliance of The-Dream’s Love Hate. Frank Ocean Pours His Heart Out on Channel Orange: Album Review 2012-07-10T20:23:02Z It was the complicated stuff of daytime melodrama, done with big-budget glamour — high-fashion wardrobes, richly furnished home and office interiors, exteriors shot on location in the Dallas area. Greed, Melodrama and the Unexpected: What Made Dallas TV’s Greatest Happy Accident 2012-06-13T10:00:01Z The movie bogs down toggling between melodrama and parable, leading to a denouement that plays like a semi-homage to Luis Buñuel’s “Belle de Jour,” always a nice movie to be reminded of. ‘Perfect Strangers’ Review: A Dare Makes an Intimate Party Too Intimate 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z Within a few years Meyer had ditched the color comedy genre for mad melodrama in monochrome: epics like Common Law Cabin, Mudhoney and Motor Psycho, all featuring convoluted plots, ripe dialogue and riper starlets. Dead Sex Kittens: Farewell to Three Icons of Movie Eroticism 2011-02-10T08:10:00Z Early reviews found the film charming but disappointing, a traditional star vehicle or melodrama more than a classic Herzog exploration of madness or obsession. ‘Queen of the Desert’ Debuts in Berlin 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z “It’s not your baby,” Ms. Gyselbrecht tells Mr. Kim, and the question of paternity becomes central to a fragmented melodrama suggested by people nimbly entering and exiting the wrong trailers. Review: Six Dancing Eccentrics in Search of Some Seriousness 2019-11-21T05:00:00Z But the frank melodrama is redeemed by the restraint and subtlety of the storytelling, and sacrifice has never been rendered so transcendently. Critic’s Notebook: Mizoguchi Films in a Museum of the Moving Image Series 2014-05-01T22:16:40Z Portman, 29, trained for months for her role in "Black Swan," a melodrama set in the New York ballet world. Hollywood actors honor "King's Speech" 2011-02-01T00:02:05Z Is there an audience that responds more strongly to melodrama? He Knows Melodrama When He Sees It 2017-12-15T05:00:00Z The Legend Of Xanadu was the quintet's only number one, a magnificent moment of mariachi melodrama, which defied all of Jimmy Savile's attempts to pronounce it when they performed it on Top Of The Pops. The best No 1 records: Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich – Legend of Xanadu 2012-05-31T20:44:00Z Despite her sadness Desirée is too generous and too sophisticated to make a melodrama even of her own heartbreak. Peters and Stritch in ?A Little Night Music? 2010-08-02T01:58:00Z The setting for this haunting musical melodrama of unmoored lives is, after all, a premature winter. Review: ‘Girl From the North Country’ Sets the Darkness Aglow 2018-10-02T04:00:00Z Hands up … feisty teenager Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, in a scene from the rousing family melodrama Brave. Brave – review 2012-06-25T16:04:08Z But the film finally fizzles into feeble melodrama, with all the power of an old episode of Grange Hill. Chatroom ? review 2010-12-23T23:01:00Z That most of the story is true is utterly fascinating, especially when it comes so close to melodrama with kidnappings, affairs, extortion, murder and a few devious families controlling insane amounts of wealth. Narcos: history turned Netflix drama traces Pablo Escobar's rise to power 2015-08-28T04:00:00Z “Speechless” extends the idea to disability, which has long been treated as the stuff of drama or melodrama. Review: In ‘Speechless,’ Balancing Family Needs With Special Needs 2016-09-20T04:00:00Z Now suddenly the Lakers faithful are witness to an even more bizarre melodrama. Kareem and His Hook Shot Deserve a Statue 2011-05-20T08:40:00Z Tugging shamelessly yet persuasively on the heartstrings, "Ode to My Father" is an epic South Korean melodrama capturing more than half a century of recent history through the eyes of an everyman shopkeeper. South Korean 'Ode to My Father' expertly mines human drama 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z When tragic real-life events are rendered cinematic, a tendency to increase the melodrama can arise. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z “Invisible Life” is a modern melodrama that’s proud to be one. ‘Invisible Life’ Review: Sisterhood Is Stronger Than Patriarchy 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Her powerfully gruff vocals on this track, from their debut album, add just the right amount of melodrama to offset a sparkling melody reminiscent of the Kinks’ “Tired of Waiting for You.” 12 Forgotten Classics by Women-Led New Wave Bands 2020-07-22T04:00:00Z When the Allegro con anima main section began, Mr. Gergiev kept the tempo reined in, never milking the music for melodrama. Music Review: Mariinsky Orchestra Plays Tchaikovsky at Carnegie - Review 2011-10-11T20:45:23Z Director Ari Aster, in his first feature, marries the horror and melodrama genres into an unnerving movie about grief. The story behind ‘Hereditary,’ the Toni Collette horror movie that scared the bejesus out of Sundance 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z What follows is a mix of caper, character study and inter-species melodrama, as presumptions about “predator” versus “prey” are tested, confirmed or daringly tossed aside. “Zootopia” in the Year of Trump: The parallels between a Disney cartoon and the 2016 election continue to surprise 2016-03-27T04:00:00Z All these, and Disney's Dumbo too, mined the melodrama inherent in a milieu of temperamental artists, nature's oddities, wild animals and men who use whips to impose discipline. Water for Elephants: Under the Big Top with Reese and RPattz 2011-04-21T10:15:00Z Albom’s latest inspirational melodrama is called “The Stranger in the Lifeboat.” Review | Mitch Albom serves up another helping of superficial spirituality 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z This entirely bizarre but captivating noir melodrama, which takes place over one Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, is directed by Robert Siodmak and written by Herman Mankiewicz, adapted from the novel by Somerset Maugham. My favourite Christmas film: Christmas Holiday 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z Larraín has an artful eye but a mind for melodrama, and the script by Steven Knight so relentlessly underlines its metaphors that it can sometimes flirt with parody. Venice Film Festival: How Does Kristen Stewart Play Princess Diana? 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z Coolidge films those scenes in the Hollywood genre styles of teen movies, melodramas, horror films, even musicals. In “Not a Pretty Picture,” Two Rape Victims Collaborate to Restage an Assault 2018-06-09T04:00:00Z These nominees suggested a range of approaches to a volatile subject, from allegory to melodrama to various kinds of realism. Film: Hollywood?s Whiteout Year: Few Blacks on Silver Screen 2011-02-12T06:53:01Z The first hour, especially, is charming, before the balance shifts from romance to melodrama to, in the final minutes, the kind of maudlin crescendo that Asian audiences are accustomed to. | 'A Beautiful Life': A Contemporary Romantic Melodrama 2011-05-20T00:08:33Z What annoyed viewers was its adherence to the art-house rule for melodramas: play it slow, then bloody, then slow — bloody slow. On the plus side, the picture is a quick sit. Only God Forgives: No Absolution for Ryan Gosling 2013-07-18T09:45:42Z The Fox Searchlight melodrama slipped one to No. 6 with $6.2 million. Natalie Portman romantic comedy leads box office 2011-01-23T18:24:45Z Instead he creates heroes and villains in what is, by turns, a prison flick, a psychological thriller and a maternal melodrama. | 'Illegal': A Woman With a Son, but Not a Country 2011-03-24T21:23:03Z What ensues is a scene that isn’t played for embarrassed laughs or garment-rending melodrama. Perspective | Abortion has always been a tough subject for Hollywood. ‘Parenthood’ got it right. 2021-09-04T04:00:00Z Heroines now tend to marry their capability and intelligence to a self-destructive, bitter edge that never quite reduces itself to melodrama. UnREAL takes aim at reality TV – but the truth is even more brutal 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z By the end, the pat melodrama just seems like so many other portraits of anxious teenagers, with very little to distinguish it outside of a wrong-headed commitment to being noticed. | 'Notice Me': Blair Singer?s Teenage Drama at Wild Project 2010-07-27T20:59:00Z But too quickly "Match" rips the mask off to reveal its simple and sour moral melodrama about libertine artists and life choices, and suddenly the whole thing's hoofing and the sweat stains show. Patrick Stewart is great, but plot doesn't quite 'Match' him 2015-01-14T05:00:00Z A fierce melodrama about risked lives, lost memories and the search for a missing love, might be just the tonic for Twilight fanpires, on the rebound after their Dawn finally broke. James Bond and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunters 2012-11-18T21:16:47Z The full melodrama of “Careless Whisper,” with a saxophone solo that, once heard, can never be forgotten, sounded like palm trees, swooning, and intrigue. George Michael’s Pop Paradise 2016-12-26T05:00:00Z With its extremes of experience and banal slightness of content, Brady Corbet’s rock-world melodrama “Vox Lux,” portentously labelled “A Twenty-First Century Portrait,” is an exemplary latter-day entry in the realm of cinematic camp. “Vox Lux,” Reviewed: A Tale of Star Power That Misuses Natalie Portman’s Star Power 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z I’m more drawn to the shows and films that revel in hip-hop’s innovation rather than the ones steeped in nostalgia or melodrama. Rap Disrupted Music First. Now It’s TV and Film. 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z Though the premise of “Embedded” is promising, the opera hovers uncertainly between satire, unabashed melodrama and hyped-up terror. Review: Fort Worth Opera’s ‘Buried Alive and ‘Embedded’ Conjure Poe’s Dark Terrain 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The plot is often predictable; it requires a large helping of artificial contrivance; and it lurches into melodrama in the final act. Muted enthusiasm for Rowling book 2012-09-27T10:23:32Z The play was dismissed as an unconvincing melodrama. Arthur Laurents, Playwright and Director on Broadway, Dies at 93 2011-05-06T04:27:34Z This lurid melodrama is a bombardment of hectic incident data, anxious feeling, and random data. How Snap Originals Beat Facebook and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z I agreed with those who felt that “Mad Men” wouldn’t go there, the “there” being a place of no-holds-barred melodrama. ?Mad Men? Watch: Power Plays and Panic Attacks 2010-09-27T14:22:00Z Again offering something entertaining for everyone, Strassberger blithely moves from the bizarre to the real, from melodrama to farce. 'JFK' is a surreal spin on president's last night in Texas 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z Theron co-starred here with her then partner, the Irish actor Stuart Townsend, in this outrageously silly but entertaining period melodrama. Charlize Theron's 20 best film roles – ranked! 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z However, they were often framed in the context of "women's films", romances and melodramas like Mildred Pierce, which earned its star Joan Crawford an Oscar in 1946. Hollywood heroines: Here to stay? 2012-08-13T23:36:37Z That last one is going to be difficult to cap, but in a story where the melodrama is as natural as breathing, we have a few worthy contenders. "Flowers in the Attic: The Origin": How to be Gothic, from creepy manors to severe housekeepers 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z It was a melodrama that achieved nothing, no matter which side of the fence you were on. Sexual melodrama on campus: The real story about college assault that David Brooks and Laura Kipnis don’t understand 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z The greatness of this segment is how it takes a fairly trivial bit of workplace politics and tips it into melodrama, with suspenseful percussive music and increasingly quick cuts as Henry progressively begins to unravel. David Hyde Pierce was the best surprise of “Wet Hot American Summer” 2015-08-06T04:00:00Z An empathetic story brimming with passion, melodrama, spiritualism and picturesque atmosphere, "Porgy" was a success, and in 1927 Heyward reworked it into a hit stage drama. Gershwin classic 'Porgy and Bess' to take stage at Seattle Opera 2011-07-24T02:05:27Z In the end “Blood Play” concludes as it began, uncomfortably close to cartoonish melodrama. Theater Review: Debate Society’s ‘Blood Play’ at Bushwick Starr 2012-10-11T23:15:05Z What saves the film from mere melodrama is the warm complexity of its characters and their relationships, and its fine performances, particularly Bjork’s disarmingly transparent, honest turn. Music Review: A von Trier Tragedy, Recast as Opera 2011-07-31T21:40:49Z In his review of the film for The Times, A. O. Scott called the film an “occasionally silly, frequently stirring romantic melodrama.” Popcast: The Pop Savvy of 'Beyond the Lights' 2014-12-05T05:00:00Z But turning a square-jawed, morally uncomplicated adventure into something more contemporary — culturally sensitive domestic melodrama — requires a lot of tweaks. Review: ‘Lost in Space,’ This Time With More Company 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z Only in the second act do the dynamics of character and dialogue drive the story, which briefly slides toward melodrama. Review: ‘Belfast Girls’ Set Sail, but This Isn’t a Pleasure Cruise 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Dean's 1955 breakthrough, the melodrama East of Eden, had not yet been released when Stock received an assignment from the Magnum agency to photograph the young actor. Anton Corbijn to shoot James Dean biopic, Life 2013-05-29T13:39:22Z Within its first few minutes, Bruch’s hyper-Romantic Concerto for Two Pianos moves from tragic melodrama to monastic quietude and back again. What to Do in N.Y.C. This Weekend: Baaba Maal, the Tony Nominees, and Fufu 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z When Cookie and Carol confront each other about Carol’s addiction and relapse is a really powerful moment and the most authentic moment in this melodrama. Empire recap: season two, episode nine – Sinned Against 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The people are drawn more crudely, and their confrontations sometimes run to standard melodrama. Theater Review: ‘Ivanov,’ With Ethan Hawke, From Classic Stage Company 2012-11-12T03:00:00Z With its combination of low stakes and high melodrama, the dispute between Ms. Vardy and Ms. Rooney did not amount to the trial of the century. ‘Wagatha Christie’ Trial, a British Spectacle, Ends: There Was No Libel, Judge Finds 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z Adapted from David Benioff’s novel, this underworld melodrama was shot mostly in Manhattan in the months after the Sept. 11 attacks, a catastrophe that haunts the film without being its explicit subject. The Essential Spike Lee 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z When the cops are arrested, this film, based on a true story, transitions from action to personal melodrama. Five Action Movies to Stream Now 2022-08-12T04:00:00Z With life experiences like those behind her, the extreme plot machinations of Hollywood melodrama must have possessed an everyday familiarity for Stanwyck. DVDs: Six Barbara Stanwyck Films 2010-04-24T02:40:00Z Men, Women & Children attempts to achieve the tone of Reitman’s early films, pirouetting between behavioral levity and dark melodrama, yet it often falls flat. Review: Men, Women & Children Shows How Sexting Is Ruining America 2014-09-30T04:00:00Z Lee employed what could be seen as either verities or convenient clichés about Koreans — stubbornness, passion, capacity for hard work, shrewd business instincts — in the service of a substantial melodrama. ‘Pachinko’ Review: K-Drama, American-Style 2022-03-24T04:00:00Z Set in the 18th century, it mixes comedy, melodrama and horror in a deeply Russian fashion. Capturing the essence of Pushkin, the revered poet killed in a duel at 37 2017-02-07T05:00:00Z That sense of condensation and abstraction, joined to the majesty of her mere presence, pushed his films in the direction of melodrama. Ingrid Bergman’s Great Sacrifice for Cinematic Art 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Yes, it's melodrama o'clock in Nashville once again. TV highlights 18/04/2013 2013-04-18T06:00:04Z Sugarland excels at two things: goofy rural charm and blunt-force melodrama, though it’s the lighthearted side that truly sets it apart from the rest of Nashville. New Music: Albums From Bruce Springsteen and Jennifer Nettles of Sugarland 2014-01-13T23:21:05Z Though “Trainwreck” is a robust comedy, ranging from genial to zingy to uproarious, it’s essentially a romantic melodrama of self-abasement, self-deception, and self-discovery. Everyone Is a "Trainwreck" 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z “It’s insulting to see the lengths to which this film tries to capture the melodrama of Queen’s music, and humiliating to see the lengths by which it fails.” “Bohemian Rhapsody” called out for inaccuracies, including handling of Mercury’s HIV diagnosis 2018-11-07T05:00:00Z But his dramatization of Curie’s personal and professional trials often feels like a talking diorama in a science museum, at least until it makes a sudden leap into juicy, gaslit melodrama in the second act. | 'Radiance': ?Radiance? by Alan Alda at Geffen Playhouse - Review 2011-11-27T21:00:09Z On Tuesday, shockingly, a new melodrama arose: Trump’s planned meeting at the New York Times was canceled, then restored. What TV journalists did wrong — and the New York Times did right — in meeting with Trump 2016-11-22T05:00:00Z “The Discreet Hero” is an exquisite concoction, a delicious melodrama of sex and betrayal, love and revenge. Mario Vargas Llosa’s delicious melodrama of sex, love and revenge 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z The films that do get made are largely geared toward a quick buck - slapdash comedies and over-the-top melodramas with poor production values. Cairo cinema gives Egypt home for alternative film 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z The original is a hokey melodrama, with robotic vocals and kitschy electronic effects. Music Review: London Grammar, British Pop Band, Avoids the Cliché 2014-01-16T23:27:43Z It’s there in a scene that brings together two of the show’s saddest characters, in violent fashion, for no discernible dramatic purpose beyond an injection of outré melodrama. Review: Kate Winslet Returns to HBO, Now as a Small-Town Cop 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z More and more, this play was looking like a lopsided melodrama about grotesque Southern schemers fighting for their slices of a dying patriarch’s estate, with an overextended father-and-son ontology lesson for a second act. Review: Sienna Miller Coaxes New Life From an Old ‘Cat’ 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z Rather than ramping up the melodrama by intercutting outside action, Moller pushes in, tightening the tension by sharing no more than what his protagonist can hear over his phone lines. The Best Movies and Shows on Hulu Right Now 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z The result is a muddled first effort in which drama and melodrama are hard to distinguish. Their Romance Dissolved. So the Heroines of This Novel Seek Their Roots. 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z It’s mostly ridiculous and an embarrassingly unsuccessful attempt to infuse psychological horror with Bollywood’s typical mix of melodrama and flashy masala. ‘Ghost Stories’ Review: Bollywood Aims for Frights 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z "This historical melodrama is one painfully orchestrated scene after the other." God Loves Caviar serves up a hero for Greece 2012-11-20T16:17:00Z And he locates the deep reserves of personal sadness lingering beneath the entire melodrama. Books of The Times: ‘The Skies Belong to Us’ Relates a 1972 Hijacking 2013-06-13T21:28:10Z By rights it should be a full-blown melodrama, and in places it is, but it’s also offset by a goofiness that sometimes borders on the inappropriate. My streaming gem: why you should watch The President's Barber 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Today’s world of TV parents, heavy with melodrama and sentimentality, could use more scenes like this one. Where are the realistic TV moms? 2014-02-09T21:00:00Z We have great genres — comedy, romance, melodrama, etc. "France" director Bruno Dumont on Léa Seydoux, digital media and how the "fake can generate truth" 2021-12-09T05:00:00Z He continued: “The Help is a broad southern melodrama that implicitly frames the push for racial equality as the tale of oppressed African-Americans who are given their voice by a lone white do-gooder.” Viola Davis 'regrets' her role in The Help 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Another episode makes Meek Mill’s “Cold Hearted,” about fame, money and jealousy in the rap game, into a crime melodrama. Review: In BET’s ‘Tales,’ Rap Lyrics Get Lost in Translation 2017-06-26T04:00:00Z But the playwright’s ambitions are unmatched by his storytelling skills in this workmanlike melodrama. | 'Banished Children of Eve': Hustlers and Lovers Endure the Civil War Era 2010-10-27T21:49:00Z Her predicament is both the stuff of high, swooning melodrama — the preferred “Twilight” mode — and traditional romantic comedy. | 'The Twilight Saga: Eclipse': Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, Smoldering 2010-06-29T19:23:00Z Compulsion and codependency, deception and desperation lace the narrative, but there are no heroes or villains and no melodrama. New-wave queer cinema: 'Gay experience in all its complexity' 2012-10-04T18:59:01Z The yearning of adoptees, the tug of interracial connections and the repercussions of a family tragedy should ring a welcome bell for fans of NBC’s wonderfully weepy melodrama. ‘The Noel Diary’ Review: Revelations on a Cold Winter’s Night 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z The first two chapters, a quasi-horror film about a mummy and a musical melodrama about battling divas and renegade scientists, are compact and satisfying, even though each one ends abruptly in the middle. ‘La Flor’ Review: Four Women in Search of a Movie 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z “Paper Lantern,” as a series of love stories, navigates the minefield of romantic melodrama and lust while still touching at heartache and soulful desire. ‘Paper Lantern’ and ‘Ecstatic Cahoots,’ by Stuart Dybek If their film, “The Worst Person in the World,” was a weepy melodrama, such responses could be expected. Life in chapters in ‘The Worst Person in the World’ 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But they were lured by a concept that preserved the romance and juicy deceit of the original while modernizing its occasionally over-the-top melodrama. Television: ‘Dallas,’ With Larry Hagman’s J. R. Ewing, Returns 2012-06-07T15:15:53Z That’s the optimistic idea, at any rate, as well as the bold, obvious metaphor that shapes this seemingly impossible, seductively heartfelt male melodrama. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z "The vengeful lady's maid!" one of his gentleman remarks upon hearing gossip about a rival's household intrigue, adding, "Sounds like a character in a melodrama." "The Gilded Age" is a glittery confection that's more "Dynasty" than "Downton Abbey" 2022-01-25T05:00:00Z Upstaging every other character in the melodrama, Cookie rocked the boldest fashions, turned her wittiest insults into catchphrases and—most importantly—proved herself the best at running the family and Empire Records. The Top 11 Moments for Women in Pop Culture in 2015 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z In a New York Times review, the film was described as “not only an arresting melodrama but a vivid commentary on a restricted way of life in our parlous times.” What’s on TV This Week: ‘Big Sky’ and ‘Between the World and Me’ 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z For all of its bombast, grandeur, melodrama and over-the-top chest-clawing ridiculousness, opera at its most grand is art at its most human. Review | Washington National Opera returns to the stage, and it’s something to sing about 2021-11-07T04:00:00Z “There’s a matter-of-fact quality to the filmmaking,” she added, “a rejection of melodrama and embrace of naturalism that slows the movie’s pulse and softens its edges.” What’s on TV Friday: ‘Black Is King’ and ‘Little Women’ 2020-07-31T04:00:00Z Perhaps Choose Your Own Adventure will go beyond the melodrama and kid-lit restrictions of the original books and offer something weightier and more meaningful for an older audience. The Real ‘You’ Tube: Choose Your Own Adventure‘s New Era 2013-01-09T13:00:47Z If the staging does not evoke the ritualized feel of Kabuki theater, the play risks coming off as an overwrought, lurid little melodrama. Theater Review: ?The Maids? by Jean Genet, From Red Bull Theater 2012-03-16T02:00:00Z These days the family member most likely to draw attention is the war poet and London party animal Siegfried Sassoon, reanimated onscreen last year in Terence Davies’s melodrama “Benediction.” ‘The Sassoons’: A Family Romance at Global Scale 2023-03-02T05:00:00Z A romantic melodrama with similarities to “A Star Is Born,” “The Rose” came three years after the Streisand remake. Lady Gaga vs Streisand: Will “A Star Is Born” launch a billion-dollar career at the box office 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z No one took deep-dish melodrama more seriously or brought more conviction and skill to its execution than the protean Edgar G. Ulmer. UCLA film festival a fascinating window into our cinematic past 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z Too bold to be presented in the age in which it was written, it now often registers as an anachronistic melodrama. Theater Review: Yael Farber’s ‘Mies Julie,’ at St. Ann’s Warehouse 2012-11-13T03:00:00Z For all its melodrama “To Die Like a Man” is a not a tearjerker. | 'To Die Like a Man': The Anguish of Identity 2011-04-07T20:55:54Z This fantastical melodrama is a showcase for a brilliant coloratura soprano portraying a wily sorceress. Ren?e Fleming With the Met and Chicago?s Lyric Opera Company 2012-01-27T19:30:47Z Operating on guts, intuition and perception, Wellman caught “found life” in an astounding variety of dramas, melodramas, comedies, farces and adventures. ‘Wild Bill Wellman: Hollywood Rebel,’ by William Wellman Jr. 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z The disharmony in the Schisa household is comically banal — an all-but-unseen sister monopolizes the bathroom; an aristocratic landlady bangs on the ceiling with a broom — until Saverio’s infidelity cranks it up to melodrama. ‘The Hand of God’ Review: A Portrait of the Cineaste as a Young Man 2021-12-14T05:00:00Z Director Lee Daniels' follow-up to the Oscar-winning "Precious: Based on the Novel `Push' by Sapphire" takes that film's ick-factor and melodrama to an extreme. `The Paperboy' delivers gooey, sleazy cheese 2012-10-03T22:40:24Z Not surprisingly, mealtimes at Aynho Terrace frequently occur “in an atmosphere of clotted melodrama.” ‘Sea of Glass’: A 1955 masterpiece you’ve probably never heard of 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z When the subject is women, or gay men, tragedy descends into mere melodrama. Books of The Times: ‘How to Be Gay,’ by David M. Halperin 2012-08-07T19:02:09Z “In that way, the film owes a greater debt to domestic melodramas than it does to the horror movie.” The story behind ‘Hereditary,’ the Toni Collette horror movie that scared the bejesus out of Sundance 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z At first this surprises her family, but “Life Inside Out” is neither a stealth version of a Douglas Sirk melodrama nor a film about a star in the making. ‘Life Inside Out,’ Directed by Jill D’Agnenica 2015-01-15T05:00:00Z In a review for The Times, Gary Goldstein calls "Maps" a "train-wreck watchable melodrama" and an "unflinching, in-your-face, decidedly unpleasant journey that dares viewers to hop on a rather nightmarish tour bus." 'Maps to the Stars' an incendiary tour of Hollywood hell, reviews say 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z Pretty but insubstantial, with an odd swerve to melodrama at the end. — Moira Macdonald 1:30 p.m. — "Leaves of Grass": Actor Edward Norton is scheduled to attend the screening. June 5 at SIFF: 'Hipsters,' 'Blessed' and 'Angel at Sea' are highlights 2010-06-04T21:33:00Z There was no denying her emotional power, even though at times, on her early albums, it shaded into melodrama. Brandi Carlile, Larger Than Life and Achingly Human 2021-10-05T04:00:00Z For the past decade – since a director spotted his wispy beard and corrugated cheeks – Zhao, 87, has supplemented meagre benefits with his earnings from bit parts in films and TV melodramas. China's extras line up to chase Hollywood dream 2013-05-30T15:47:08Z The show found plenty of time for family melodrama, particularly in the teenage sulking of Brody’s daughter. Alessandra Stanley Sizes Up 2013 TV Fare 2013-12-13T19:27:53Z With so many story lines and characters, there is always the risk of melodrama and cliche, but Haigh is never reductive in her plotting or characterization. ‘Heat & Light’ is the best fracking novel ever 2016-05-10T04:00:00Z Hazanavicius said he deliberately avoided making a spoof of the silent era, but created instead a melodrama which could draw in the audience. Cannes movie recalls magic of the silent era 2011-05-15T10:50:12Z Suddenly it's period melodrama – quite entertaining, utterly preposterous. TV review: River Cottage; The Making of a Lady; Him & Her 2012-12-16T21:45:01Z Its story is quite similar to “Days of Wine and Roses,” minus the old-time Hollywood melodrama. Movie Review: ‘Smashed,’ by James Ponsoldt, Looks at Alcoholism 2012-10-11T23:49:39Z Much of the detail in Ammonite is derived from this kind of maternal melodrama: romance kindled through caregiving. Ammonite is not the evolutionary leap for lesbian film it thinks it is 2020-10-27T04:00:00Z In a classic piece of Idol melodrama, the judges let Ms. Dixon’s brother, Colton, remain in the contest, even though he initially did not want to audition. ArtsBeat: 'Idol' Field Is Culled After Group Performances 2012-02-17T06:04:52Z The film's appeal may be its mix of raucous family comedy and sentimental father/son melodrama. Why dramedy "Dad I'm Sorry" speaks to Vietnamese offspring: "They don't dare talk to their parents" 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z De Havilland was nominated for an Oscar for “Gone With the Wind” and went on to earn her own Academy Award in 1946 for “To Each His Own,” a melodrama about out-of-wedlock birth. Olivia de Havilland embodied old Hollywood, and shook it up 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z But one of the strengths of the film is that it never plunges into cheap melodrama; the father is never discussed, nor is the fact that Ms. Lemoine once lived there. 2010-01-30T05:18:00Z From a tiny colony of 6 million souls came a stream of vital, eviscerating melodramas that taught Hollywood how to infuse action films with a whirling visual poetry. 'Detective Dee': A Masterpiece from a Hong Kong Cinema Swami 2011-09-01T05:10:00Z Knocks against Hellman’s writing are that it’s old-fashioned and prone to melodrama. Lillian Hellman is once again a presence in Washington 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z Yet there’s no melodrama, sentimentality or special pleading. The Model Apartment: A Great Play Rediscovered 2013-10-16T12:00:01Z No one else could bring off this over-the-top tearjerker like Jones, the master of heartfelt melodrama. George Jones: 7 Essential Tracks 2013-04-26T19:45:46Z He reached runner-up last year, with campy, full-tilt performances and a voice with the melodrama and falsetto extension of Freddie Mercury of Queen. Music Review: Adam Lambert?s Message at the Nokia Theater 2010-06-23T22:04:00Z The first was "Black Sheep's Wool," a melodrama about the troubles of European nobility who came to North America. 'Essential' film copyright protection turns 100 2012-08-24T18:02:12Z Although I love the idea of telling the Pilgrim story in a grim, more accurate way, “Saints & Strangers” still falls prey to some usual miniseries melodrama and awkward exposition. In ‘Saints & Strangers,’ a noble attempt to tell Thanksgiving’s grimmer truths 2015-11-20T05:00:00Z The humour of melodrama, the humour of wallowing, is definitely something that is in almost all of our songs. Six hours, one song: the National perfect the art of repetition 2013-07-11T18:03:02Z But in the movie, she’s also funny and expressive and centered, not sapped of agency as it seemed she might be, not the timid, self-sacrificing mouse of so many melodramas of this ilk. What Critics Are Saying About Fifty Shades of Grey 2015-02-11T05:00:00Z One major development here is gasp-inducingly unexpected, the stuff of life but also of melodrama. Review: ‘A Little Life,’ Hanya Yanagihara’s Traumatic Tale of Male Friendship 2015-09-30T04:00:00Z Thayer, as the stenographer in that courtroom melodrama, does brilliant drag. The Habit: high-speed comedy with multiple storylines | Comedy review 2012-11-19T19:20:13Z And in "Four Malay Stories," Wong himself plays 16 roles on 4 screens, as he re-creates episodes from a comedy, melodrama, period epic and horror story by Malay filmmaker P. Ramlee. Frye Art Museum hosts Ming Wong's first solo show in U.S.: 'Life of Imitation' 2011-01-27T00:41:05Z The Midland Community Theatre stages this locally scripted melodrama in which popcorn and Odessa jokes rain down like West Texas hail. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z Collins doesn't always steer away from melodrama, and the star-crossed lovers motif is so heavy-handed that the conclusion is fairly predictable. The Gamal by Ciarán Collins – review 2013-04-27T10:00:01Z Of course the blooms are already dead and therefore more funerary than life-affirming, which seems very much to be the point, much like the beautiful flowers that ornament Douglas Sirk’s Hollywood melodramas. Review: ‘Amour Fou,’ About the Woman in a Poet’s Suicide Pact 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Mostly the mood tends to melodrama and tragedy. Art Review: ?Francesca Woodman? at Guggenheim Museum 2012-03-15T20:37:11Z We live in unsubtle times, which proves to be a fitting atmosphere for the bare-knuckled, good-vs.-evil symmetry of Arena Stage’s sure-handed revival of Lillian Hellman’s anti-fascist melodrama, “Watch on the Rhine.” The white gloves come off in the creaky and yet timely ‘Watch on the Rhine’ 2017-02-13T05:00:00Z The fulcrum that divides the happy Johnny, who woos and wins Mercy, from his puffy, bearded, mad-at-the-world "After" version is the stuff of melodrama. Scott, James Cann go head-to-head in "Mercy" 2010-04-14T01:40:00Z Yet absurdity inevitably flavors everything touching this tongue-in-cheek melodrama of “saved” turkeys. Perspective | Trump’s presidential turkey pardon felt like a reality show meets absurdist theater 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Some are predictable melodrama and fairly harmless cries for validation — but not all. Motherlode Blog: When a Facebook Post Is a Cry for Help 2012-02-24T04:20:27Z What had looked to many like a clear-cut case of domestic violence had devolved into a “both sides” melodrama. The Actual Malice of the Johnny Depp Trial 2022-06-02T04:00:00Z She does occasionally dip into the melodrama pot; Isabel at one point screams, “Don’t take my baby away!” New Books by M. L. Stedman, Yvvette Edwards and More 2012-07-25T21:57:20Z AP: Your entry point to that history, though, comes through a melodrama that cloaks the film’s more political intentions. Q&A: Almodóvar on unearthing the past in ‘Parallel Mothers’ 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z Conceptually, the show is a gangster melodrama with an infinite twist. Four Shows at the Center of a Golden Age of Hip-Hop Television 2019-11-01T04:00:00Z Disaster movies in the Spielbergian tradition customarily become sentimental melodramas about fatherhood, where a tsunami or alien invasion is the backdrop for a damaged family recovering its soul. Pick of the week: A pandemic from which even Gwyneth isn't safe 2011-09-09T00:39:00Z The closest he's ever gotten to a hit remains his 1996 debut "Pusher," a sharply observed melodrama set in the grimy criminal underworld of Copenhagen. "Valhalla Rising": What to see instead of "Inception" 2010-07-16T00:30:00Z This story could be played as melodrama, but it is really empowering. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary “It Came From Kuchar” provides generous clips of these and later films, enough to give a flavor of the brothers’ blend of camp, melodrama, horror, psychological exploration and sexual provocation. | 'It Came From Kuchar': The Kuchars, Twins Who Defied Film Convention 2010-04-09T03:22:00Z Part of the key to Ford-as-Solo is how he seems to be slightly ridiculing all the woozy cosmic melodrama around him. Chris Pratt as Indiana Jones — Good or Bad Idea? 2015-01-28T05:00:00Z The filmmaker Todd Haynes, who directed the 2002 movie “Far From Heaven” as a homage to the 1950s Technicolor melodramas of Douglas Sirk, here pays opulent tribute to the written word. | 'Mildred Pierce': Battling the Depression for an Ungrateful Daughter 2011-03-24T11:00:00Z "The only thing that I hate more intensely than melodrama and spinach is myself." Man of letters 2010-10-09T23:06:00Z To address the built-in problem of revealing such a locked-down soul, and in the manner of period psychiatric melodramas like “Now Voyager” and “Bigger Than Life,” Wright gives Levant occasional reality breaks and hallucinations. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z They are the ship’s renewable source of humor and wonder — and, in one instance we observed, high melodrama. Disney's Fantastic Voyage 2012-06-01T18:10:44Z It’s a very interesting proposition as a performer to do something that constantly shifts from old-fashioned musical comedy to high romanticism to melodrama, and to try and make it as natural and resonant as possible. Death Becomes a Soaring Tenor 2011-07-17T01:00:47Z The comedy is more wry than uproarious, the melodrama gently poignant rather than operatic, and the sentimentality just sweet enough to be satisfying rather than bothersome. Movie Review: ‘The Lunchbox,’ With Irrfan Khan: Mumbai Mix-Up 2014-02-27T16:27:45Z While Mr. von Bothmer usually watches a movie several times before accompanying it in public, taking notes on crucial plot twists and moments of melodrama, he said he still partly improvises in those shows. A Waltz for a Soccer Game? This Composer Sets the World Cup to Music 2018-07-06T04:00:00Z Delaney represents a disruptive, democratic force in this melodrama of ideas. Review: FX’s ‘Taboo,’ a British Costume Drama With Doom and Gloom 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z She is an actress who short-circuits conventional distinctions between tough and vulnerable, showing exquisite control even when her character is losing it, and keeping her balance even when the movie pitches and rolls toward melodrama. ‘The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby,’ by Ned Benson 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z It’s the stuff of mothball melodrama, and Mr. Dromgoole, the former artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe, is well aware of the play’s creakiness. Eye-Openers in London: 19th-Century Women With 21st-Century Problems 2017-11-26T05:00:00Z She exposes more turmoil at New York City Ballet than any fictional ballet melodrama could hope to match. Review | ‘Swan Dive’ gives voice to every suspicion you may harbor about professional ballet 2021-08-18T04:00:00Z Also gaining momentum was Nicole Kidman, who was nominated for her supporting performance in Lee Daniel's fevered Southern melodrama "The Paperboy." Salmon fishing where? Globes snubs and surprises 2012-12-13T16:49:25Z A coda following the concerto may not tie up the larger themes of genius and insanity but does resolve some relationships in the way you would expect from a melodrama set in 1958. ‘Good Night, Oscar’ Review: Sean Hayes With Demerol and Cadenzas 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z Both are political thrillers that romanticize malfeasance, imbuing corruption with a sinister melodrama that defies common sense and cheapens the thrill of bad behavior. Television Review: ?Boss,? With Kelsey Grammer on Starz - Review 2011-10-20T20:03:50Z Their plays are plot-driven family melodramas about delusions and affairs of the heart, tragedies played at such a fever pitch that they spill into farce. The Amoralists Ready a New Play, ?Amerissiah? 2010-06-05T02:03:00Z There are a lot of feelings here, but little melodrama. Review: Hulu’s ‘Casual’ Mixes Sex and Family Drama 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z Ms. Jenkins, whose previous features include “The Savages” and “Slums of Beverly Hills,” patiently assembles a structure suited either to melodrama or farce. Review: ‘Private Life,’ a Piquant Look at a Couple’s Campaign to Conceive 2018-10-04T04:00:00Z That show tended to lean into melodrama in the fictional high school where it was set, making Gripp think to herself, “They’d be fired; they’d be fired; that kid would be suspended.” Broken Lights, No Glue: ‘Abbott Elementary’ Has Teachers Talking 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z There are also a lot of sequins and canned melodrama and hammy showmanship. Review: In John Irving’s ‘Avenue of Mysteries,’ a Blur of Aphorisms and Magical Events 2015-11-02T05:00:00Z Let's leave the melodrama to Bollywood, in other words, and revel what it's really like to be British and Asian in 2010. British-Asian theatre needs a facelift 2010-04-23T15:24:00Z He's got several somewhat similar films under his belt, like "Erin Brockovich," "Traffic," or the currently-in-theaters "Contagion"; precise but never dry melodramas based on unusual true stories or contemporary issues. Scarecrow Video recommendations for "Moneyball" 2011-09-22T13:09:54Z It's not that I'm averse to melodrama – far from it. World of Fantasy: Conan the Barbarian and his lily-white women 2010-05-27T09:35:00Z A melodrama with comic punctuation, “Nora’s Will” is about secrets and lies and a narrative imperative that every unhappy life must end not only with death but with closure too. | 'Nora?s Will': After a Death, Friendships and Secrets 2010-10-14T23:58:00Z Yet the melodrama — like that of the framing terrorism plot — acts as a bracing counterpoint to the clumsy, funny interactions of Ez and Barry. Alan Ayckbourn’s Latest, ‘Arrivals & Departures’ 2014-06-04T04:00:00Z Now it offers “The Great Divide,” a more obscure 1906 melodrama that provides a new set of clichéd characters who, at their best, are intriguing reflections of a changing nation. | 'The Great Divide': Frontier Woman?s Desperate Proposition 2011-03-13T22:40:38Z It’s a different ballet in each modern production; and no version comes remotely close to the tragic melodrama of Byron’s original “Corsair” poem. Critic?s Notebook: Bolshoi Sends Alexei Ratmansky?s ?Corsaire? Into Cinemas 2012-03-12T22:19:26Z And over all it’s about turning the life of the mind into conventional angry-young-man melodrama, with all the clichés that entails. Review: ‘Genius’ Paints Picasso by the Numbers 2018-04-23T04:00:00Z Perhaps the balance will shift back before the season ends, but melodrama has a way of winning out. On TV, Vampires for Every Taste 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z Daudet based a melodrama on her with music by Bizet, but the stage version expands to lassitude. Summer readings: Letters from My Windmill by Alphonse Daudet 2011-08-03T09:40:08Z Again, she doesn’t sound exhausted or woebegone, giving her words a force of purpose and skipping melodrama altogether. Critics? Choice: New CDs 2011-03-07T23:58:25Z But the show’s primary model is the granddaddy of weepy teenage melodramas, “Romeo and Juliet.” Television Review: Girl Meets Alien in ‘Star Crossed’ on CW 2014-02-16T22:22:46Z What surprises is how the script always stops short of melodrama. Review: ‘Skeleton Crew,’ a Tale of Autoworkers in Hard-Hit Detroit 2016-01-19T05:00:00Z Now working to establish their credibility as serious actors, they’ve come to Cannes in two challenging melodramas. Pretty Boys Gone Wild, Part 2: Robert Pattinson in Cosmopolis 2012-05-25T18:05:46Z We were watching really bad Horatio Hornblower melodrama on the high seas. Taylor Mac’s Week: Watching Bond Movies on VHS and Discovering the Banjo 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z The younger generation of the royal family has featured in numerous ripped-from-the-headlines TV melodramas. An Inscrutable Monarch, Endlessly Scrutinized Onstage and Onscreen 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Back to Sicilia we go, for a denouement that is all melodrama and magic. Review: A Moving ‘Winter’s Tale,’ With Women in Charge 2018-03-25T04:00:00Z They make for a film with elements of dance on camera, musical, of-the-moment melodrama and visual poetry — but without a thorough commitment to any one of those and few, if any, moments of coalescence. ‘Carmen’ Review: We’re Not in Spain Anymore 2023-04-20T04:00:00Z The biggest drama — melodrama, perhaps? — involved Pete Campbell’s discovery that his object of obsession, Beth Dawes, is periodically checked into a mental hospital by her hateful husband to receive electroshock for depression. ArtsBeat: 'Mad Men' Watch: At Season's End, Alone Again 2012-06-11T04:50:11Z The song “successfully balances dark yet crisp melodrama with bold tunefulness, softly pointed singing with sharp imagery,” the critic Jon Caramanica wrote. Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Hit No. 1 in a Week. Here’s How. 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The musical numbers are sung in the original German, but the spoken dialogue is delivered in French, much of it turned into melodrama, with accompaniments recycled from Mozart's piano works. A Magic Flute ? review 2011-03-24T12:15:30Z The jamming together of so much history and melodrama makes for a handsome movie that is only rarely gripping. Movie Review: ‘For Greater Glory’ Traces Mexico’s Cristero War 2012-05-31T22:13:04Z Specifically, he was the master of nineteen-fifties melodrama—of the operatic representations of domestic passions in a decade that had shaken off the weeds of war and was enjoying a robust expansion. Jacob Lawrence, Audra McDonald, and Rockaway Taco 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Through two seasons, “The Affair” charted a course between melodrama and comedy of manners, with a ticky-tacky mystery thrown in to keep the plot percolating. ‘The Affair’ Season 3, Episode 3: Noah and Juliette 2016-12-04T05:00:00Z On its 15th anniversary, it remains a unique feat in the world of pop — a commercial success built on a foundation of melodrama and spectacle that simultaneously satirized and celebrated it. Panic! at the Disco’s Flourishes Weren’t Just Dramatic. They Were Theater. 2020-09-27T04:00:00Z At times, the family story in the real Santa Barbara outdoes the soap opera for melodrama. Jona Frank: Between Reality and Fantasy 2020-10-26T04:00:00Z Out on the sidewalks of the Flatiron district, a Manhattan without melodrama shuffles along. Robert Osborne Is the Face of TCM 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z In a broadcast landscape full of slick, self-consciously campy melodramas, ABC’s turn to social realism is worth applauding. Here Are the Best TV Shows of 2016 So Far 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z The famous music plays sometimes as hackneyed melodrama, sometimes as fairground accompaniment. Danza Contemporánea de Cuba – review 2012-06-01T15:40:27Z Turning that material into the play had its challenges, Slovo said, including “not wanting to turn this into a melodrama in any way” and making sure the play wasn’t traumatizing. Depicting the Grenfell Tragedy Onstage, in the Survivors’ Own Words 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Silver’s aesthetic is fundamentally melodramatic, rooted in the dark melodramas of the fifties and sixties, of Sam Fuller and, especially, Vincente Minnelli. Like Sundance in Brooklyn, Except Better 2015-06-18T04:00:00Z The theatricality of the truth is more than enough without the added melodrama. Review | Southern historical fiction gets the soap opera treatment in ‘The Dying of the Light’ 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z How does a composer depict such a horrific story without melodrama? Review: With Protest and Fire, an Oratorio Mourns a Tragedy 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z David is an engaging invention, a cross between Jeeves and a double agent in a Jacobean melodrama, and his favourite movie is Lawrence of Arabia, the story of a control freak moving between two cultures. Prometheus – review 2012-06-02T23:07:09Z “No melodrama,” he added, waggling his fingers in the air. Carl Andre Emerges to Guide Installation at Dia:Beacon 2014-05-04T21:47:33Z The production of Eugene O'Neill's maritime melodrama, which co-started Jude Law, was named best revival. 'Matilda' leads race for theater's Olivier Awards 2012-04-15T19:09:08Z In this case, I was very conscious of not turning it into a melodrama. Julie Delpy, Science-Fiction Filmmaker? It’s True 2021-02-26T05:00:00Z This is an acknowledged classic, one of the most exquisitely photographed films of this or any era, and it's also a perfectly pitched, swooning melodrama. 'Black Swan' precursors include 'The Red Shoes' and 'Repulsion' 2010-12-09T19:10:00Z Again, this sounds like the stuff of the fervid melodrama that Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins parodied in “An Octoroon.” Review: Reckoning With Medical Betrayals ‘Behind the Sheet’ 2019-01-18T05:00:00Z Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery melodrama electrified the nation when it was published in the early 1850s. Review | While offensive TV shows get pulled, problematic books are still inspiring debate and conversation 2020-07-02T04:00:00Z In superhero movies or cowboy melodramas set in space, the bad guys don’t “disagree” with the good guys as much as they want them sacrificed to their dark lord. Outgrowing the cosmetic left: A liberal plea for fake liberalism to grow up 2017-02-25T05:00:00Z Whether director Gianni Amelio is aiming for emotional effect or social commentary, his fuzzy detours into melodrama land well off the mark. 'Intrepido' takes muddled approach to day laborer's strife 2015-05-21T04:00:00Z This timely melodrama concerns the impact of deportation on a Latino family. “Collisions” star Jesse Garcia: Deportation family stories have “always been relevant” 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z There was an avalanche of festive films this year, seemingly more than ever with Netflix following in the footsteps of Lifetime and Hallmark by releasing a stocking’s worth of similarly low-budget and low-entertainment Christmas melodramas. The best movies of 2019 that you haven't seen 2019-12-30T05:00:00Z Working with Penélope Cruz at the top of her own game, Almodóvar has created another luscious Sirkian melodrama, this time about women who give birth on the same day and the confusion that ensues. Perspective | Best movies of 2021: Almodóvar just gets better, family films make a comeback 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z The kind of movie they inhabit — a terminal teen melodrama, a bittersweet coming-of-age story, a wishful tale of interracial friendship — is not the kind of movie they’d be likely to imitate. Review: In ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl,’ a Comfort Zone That Cannot Last 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z Van Ness writes about these bombshells with a quiet tenacity that skirts melodrama. Jonathan Van Ness on being HIV positive: 'It gave me a reason to really fight' 2019-09-22T04:00:00Z She giggles at the melodrama of it all. Gugu Mbatha-Raw: ‘It’s an actor’s duty to help the culture to evolve’ 2019-11-30T05:00:00Z This abstraction and Mr. Pomare’s sculptural sense of space — his configurations are always interesting, often surprising — save “Radeau” from melodrama, despite the scream with which it ends. Dance Review: For Women Amid Waves, Shared Fears and Rhythm 2010-11-23T22:44:00Z While the subplot involving a former star who haunts the theater is atmospheric, it feels more structurally convenient than wholly integrated, and the Act 2 shift to melodrama could stand more prior groundwork. In 'Takarazuka!!!,' coming of age in a blend of gender roles 2014-11-20T05:00:00Z Thus, Miss Atomic Bomb is an earthquake melodrama with Flying V guitars. The Killers – review 2012-08-19T15:59:42Z The mother was distraught and a melodrama unfolded. Arabic dress and Iranian accents ? Hollywood's take on Afghan women 2011-02-12T10:59:00Z Two of his films — the classic western "Jesse James" and the melodrama "The Rains Came" — were among the top four box office hits of the year. Tyrone Power had it all, but he wanted more 2014-11-09T05:00:00Z But Wright, while a canny craftsman, is too committed to good taste to go over the top into either melodrama or camp. ‘Cyrano’ Review: Who Wrote the Book of Love? 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z My apparent lack of generosity to Hardy here might owe something to having spent a good deal of time picking the bones out of this unashamed melodrama: deciding, in short, what to dump. Thomas Hardy goes to the opera 2012-08-17T21:55:07Z Some of the novels in this genre might better be described as "girl gone mad" melodramas. Beyond "girl gone mad melodrama" — reframing female anger in psychological thrillers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Remove the monstrosity from Alexandra and Chance, and you also remove the potential for “Sweet Bird” to be a tragedy as well as a melodrama. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Monsters and Ghosts 2013-07-11T15:00:18Z CBS Films filled that slot this year with : a Gothic melodrama about a dead woman unleashing her vengeful spirit upon children in the town where her own son died. A Super Bowl Squeaker: Chronicle Edges The Woman in Black 2012-02-05T19:46:29Z That tips the play into more melodrama than outright thriller. Review: Rajiv Joseph's 'The North Pool' engrossing 2013-03-07T00:45:08Z Fallaci spent almost a decade on “Inshallah,” a giant novel about the war in Lebanon, which exposed her weakness for melodrama and metaphysical kitsch. A new biography gets Oriana Fallaci the way people who knew her couldn't 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z Between the occasional outraged soliloquies by Watson and more measured statements by his colleagues and opponents, "Whale Wars" adds a dollop of Socratic dialog to its melodrama. The whalers' worst nightmare sets sail again 2011-06-03T19:04:00Z “Hindsight, and a taste for melodrama, and some faint ghost of veritable memory” coalesce to produce the irresistible light of “Moonglow.” Michael Chabon’s ‘Moonglow’ is a cunning dance with autobiography 2016-11-21T05:00:00Z The narrative is all mystique and not enough mystery, a moody melodrama that leaves no cliché of the mobster genre untouched, or improved. Television Review: ?Magic City? on Starz Is Set in Miami Beach, Circa 1959 2012-04-06T00:24:34Z Even trying to categorize “In a Lonely Place” is tricky: It has elements of murder mystery, melodrama and Hollywood insider scoop. Want to Be an Instant Expert on Film Noir? Watch This Drama 2020-04-30T04:00:00Z The finale was unevenly paced – some scenes were as drawn out as a Douglas Sirk melodrama, others like a Doris Day romantic comedy. Shifting From ‘Mad Men’ to Strong Women in a Series Finale 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The early moments find the marriage between Marty and Wendy on the rocks and their children absorbed in their own melodramas. ‘Ozark’ on Netflix: This Lake Has Hidden Depths 2017-07-14T04:00:00Z So many things were revolutionary about “Twin Peaks,” and its DNA saturates the TV gene pool: Every serialized mystery, teenage melodrama, quirky dramedy and surreal supernatural thriller owes something to it. Was ‘Twin Peaks’ Ahead of Its Time? Let’s Look Back and See 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z The first act depicts a childhood shadowed by his mother’s drug addiction and his father’s perpetual touring in “The Count of Monte Cristo,” a profitable, artistically negligible melodrama. A new biography of Eugene O’Neill looks beyond the playwright’s demons The rest has been a decades-long melodrama featuring everyone from Muhammad Ali to Dylan to “a small army of Canadian zealots” that was “beavering away on the case,” Crossman says. “The Hurricane Tapes”: Will a British Podcast Solve the Hurricane Carter Case? 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z That there’s more to him than primitive strength is inevitable in movies like this one, which tries to complicate an archetypal Sensitive Brute with melodrama, expressive cinematography and a sense of grace. ‘The Shadow of Violence’ Review: Behold, the Bad Man (Again) 2020-07-30T04:00:00Z An early review was for "Spencer's Mountain," a sentimental family melodrama starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara. Film critic Judith Crist dies at 90 2012-08-07T20:48:08Z At first, “Everybody Knows” unfolds in a hectic, half-comic vein, with hints of melodrama, mischief and misbehavior. ‘Everybody Knows’ Review: Penélope Cruz’s Homecoming Turns Frantic 2019-02-06T05:00:00Z The yearning and forcefulness of her choreography suck the life out of the performers, who, as actors, command the stage weakly by relying on melodrama. Dance Review: Virgins, Pimps and Other Facts of life 2011-06-24T21:35:03Z Geopolitical tensions simmer at the outermost edges of “Dangerous Liaisons,” which mostly unfolds as a divertingly lush tear-stained melodrama. Movie Review: ‘Dangerous Liaisons,’ Directed by Hur Jin-ho 2012-11-09T01:55:30Z It’s something that’s really inspired how I make music — that idea of escapism and the idea of melodrama combined with emotion. Jessie Ware Centers Herself With ‘Real Housewives of Beverly Hills’ 2023-04-22T04:00:00Z Songs from “Folklore” fared slightly better, especially “Cardigan” and “Betty,” but this section teetered toward melodrama, as if compensating for the less assured production on those songs. Taylor Swift, Pop’s Maestro of Memory, Returns to the Stage 2023-03-18T04:00:00Z Yet lacking a formal script, the actors struggle with a plot so elemental that it might have played more persuasively as a silent-screen melodrama. ‘Red Knot,’ About a Voyage to Antarctica 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z “I was fascinated by its immediacy and its lack of melodrama,” Mr. Graf said in an email. A Gritty Weimar Portrait of Youth Gangs, Restored to Renewed Acclaim 2015-02-13T05:00:00Z From the first shot of “Frankie,” Ira Sachs’s intense and restrained melodrama, it’s apparent that the film’s physical environment—its settings, furnishings, and wardrobe—will be crucial to its action. “Frankie” and the Performance of Life in the Face of Death 2019-10-25T04:00:00Z Cuckoo Birds is a strange, singular example of an unidentifiable genre, because it’s a bit of everything: horror, sex, melodrama. 'Trump made me do it': director Nicolas Winding Refn on how the American apocalypse is fuelling 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z And as the subtitle breathlessly implies, there will be blood — “a ghost story, a family saga and an unsolved mystery” — unfurled with all the cliffhangers and red herrings of a scripted melodrama. He Created the First Known Movie. Then He Vanished. 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z Some sections read like folk tales or adventure novels, while those set in Virginia serve up reheated plantation melodrama. Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing 2019-01-07T05:00:00Z Reunited with her “Safe” director Haynes for an artfully colorful melodrama, Moore plays another 1950s housewife — this time, a creature too good for this world. Julianne Moore: 8 roles to remember 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z From midway barker in a local carnival to bumbling magician to hypnotist's subject to traveling roadshow mainstay to actor in a theater troupe specializing in melodrama, Lyle is there. ArtsBeat: Book Review Podcast: Old Hollywood 2012-12-14T17:18:26Z Any tendencies toward melodrama and self-pity were trumped by a matter-of-fact depiction of the exhilaration and the cost of living dangerously. Music Review: Traveling to the Stars, No Joy or Romance Needed 2011-03-08T21:29:40Z Craig even enlivened vastly inferior material when last he was on the Great White Way, in the 2009 police melodrama A Steady Rain. Press views: Weisz and Craig in Betrayal 2013-11-04T11:37:56Z “I don’t think Mike Leigh would like me. If he wanted me to do a medieval melodrama, I’d still be wearing my underpants from Marks & Spencer underneath my costume; I don’t care what he says.” Steve Coogan: ‘Maybe I've just got flabby and middle-aged' 2019-01-04T05:00:00Z It remains more a drama than a melodrama. "Southland": TV's best cop show survives -- and thrives 2011-03-01T15:02:00Z This is an OK start for a melodrama. Sarah Michelle Gellar flounders in a bland new drama 2011-09-13T15:03:00Z Instead of trashing the fans of Twilight for liking such melodrama, we should ask ourselves what they are finding in this film that they're not getting in the rest of mainstream cinema. Leave Twilight fans alone! 2010-07-17T12:59:00Z Bennett is a remarkably assured writer who mostly sidesteps the potential for melodrama inherent in a form built upon secrecy and revelation. Brit Bennett’s New Novel Explores the Power and Performance of Race 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z At a crucial, climactic moment — a scene in a suite at the Plaza Hotel — the director mutes his irrepressible, circus ringmaster showmanship and plunges into undiluted melodrama. Movie Review: ‘The Great Gatsby,’ Interpreted by Baz Luhrmann 2013-05-09T12:00:01Z This persists, with chefs talking admiringly of one another for attacking their underlings with rolling pins, but was never part of the gastropub DNA, which broke the model not just of formality but of melodrama. Twenty-five years of the gastropub – a revolution that saved British boozers 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z You might want to be there when it arrives if passionate, period British literary melodramas are at all your thing. 'Poldark' mines a reliable literary source 2015-06-20T04:00:00Z A movie like Jacques Audiard’s tough and tender melodrama “Rust and Bone,” with its workaday French setting and its restless hand-held camera. Critic’s Notebook: Four Days of Films at Telluride 2012-09-03T22:16:36Z Most of all there is a complicated, convoluted mix of action, suspense and family melodrama, a combination that couldn’t be pulled off without good writing and a very strong cast. ‘The Honorable Woman,’ Starring Maggie Gyllenhaal 2014-07-30T04:00:00Z As if it were a movie theatre playing a picture over and over again, the house is home to a recurring melodrama – and gradually the women realise they can perhaps intervene in it. The films that time forgot 2010-08-19T20:59:00Z If you were looking for holes, you could pick at the plot, which, sparked by the murder of a cop investigating the hormone trade, becomes light-headed and high on melodrama. Bullhead – review 2013-01-31T22:00:02Z The standard genres – comedy, melodrama, western, film noir – he took to himself with peculiar zest; his secret was an ease at improvisation that required a constant adroitness with his company. Howard Hawks, Hollywood's finest practitioner of everyday chivalry 2011-01-15T00:05:49Z Not all of the shows deserve that showcase — a fair share of the Netflix offerings are risible melodrama of interest strictly for variety’s sake, or to homesick expats from the show’s countries of origin. On Netflix, the Borders Remain Open 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z This could have resulted in brutally effective melodrama. ‘An American Tragedy’ and More at Glimmerglass 2014-07-29T04:00:00Z After all, unbridled spectacle, melodrama, and ornate design elements are inherent to the genre. How audiences can triumph in the battle for superhero movie supremacy 2016-12-12T05:00:00Z Judgment day arrives, and "AI" embraces the melodrama By Mary T. Kelly Editor's note: This post originally appeared on Mary T. Kelly's Open Salon blog. 2010-02-17T16:01:00Z “Salome of the Tenements,” a melodrama from 1925, is one of thousands of “lost films” of the silent era. You Know These 20 Movies. Now Meet the Women Behind Them 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z The essence of melodrama is the revelation of tragic grandeur in everyday life—and the contrast, even the conflict, between the mighty nobility of everyday people’s emotions and the workaday circumstances of their lives. Eugène Green's “The Son of Joseph,” a Grand and Comedic Drama of Father and Son 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z Photograph: Katherine Rose for the Observer Like a particularly hopeless dame in an especially repetitive melodrama, rock, so the story goes, is perpetually in need of saving. Spector: Enjoy it While it Lasts – review 2012-08-11T23:05:28Z The casting is strong all around, which helps pull the series through its weaker stretches, when it does start to drift into a morality play or an overwrought junkie melodrama. Review: American Crime Is a Mystery With Meaning 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z For all its strangeness, the work has a darker shadow: melodrama. Alessandra Ferri Performs a Work by Lar Lubovitch 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z The name Taylor Russell might not be a household one just yet, but after watching her breakthrough performance in Trey Edward Shults’s domestic melodrama “Waves,” you may never forget her. The Biggest Breakout Stars of 2019 2019-12-19T05:00:00Z Belonging more in the realm of tragic melodrama than true crime, "The Sicilian Girl" is hobbled by sluggish direction and a revulsion to nuance. 'The Sicilian Girl': Fiery heroine falls victim to melodrama 2010-09-23T20:21:00Z Some of the complications are standard melodrama; others concern more quotidian matters, like when to plant before the rain and where to sell harvested onions. Review: A Father Dies, and Duty Weighs on a Son in ‘Nakom’ 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z Packed with 19th-century northern melodrama, from broody moors to cobbles, the 90-minute silent epic Helen of Four Gates was last shown in this country in the 1920s. Helen of Four Gates to get screening after 80-year hiatus 2010-05-31T14:38:00Z The rest are cast largely as single episodes, with a tendency towards melodrama, such as the traumatised woman in Nick Fells and Zoë Strachan's Sublimation. Five:15 2010-05-16T21:35:00Z And it’s as a melodrama of survival that “Widows” works best. ‘Widows’ Review: Viola Davis Commands the Screen in a Somber Heist Film 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z The next 15 minutes is basically a bucket of Original Recipe with a side order of melodrama. KFC's sexy Colonel Sanders Lifetime movie is the perfect distillation for this year's brand madness 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z In serving up the antidote to what they see as the coldness and assembly-line beats of dubstep, Daft Punk sometimes errs on the side of melodrama. Album review: Daft Punk, 'Random Access Memories' 2013-05-17T17:59:00Z Television is suddenly full of women in power, and that is as much because of Shonda Rhimes and the success of her Washington melodrama, “Scandal,” as because of Mrs. Clinton. ‘Madam Secretary’ and ‘The Good Wife,’ TV’s Mighty Women 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z Audience members sit in a glorified car park in front of a four-storey hotel, where seven dancers in different rooms enact their own sad melodramas. In praise of ? David Rosenberg 2010-06-13T23:05:00Z The tableau is one of the few reflective moments in an otherwise chaotic, distracted melodrama. | 'Spring Fever': From Lou Ye, a Taboo Film on Gay Romance 2010-08-05T23:38:00Z The script ultimately blended Greek tragedy with Yankee mythos, Freudian theory with melodrama. Review: In ‘Drunken With What,’ a Streamlined ‘Mourning Becomes Electra’ 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z Handled without melodrama and with a hushed foreboding, these unnerving incidents establish a mood that’s spooky yet restrained. Review: In ‘The Hallow,’ Evil Lurks in the Irish Woods 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Heavy-handed Israeli authorities jail a poetic soul in “Ulysses on Bottles,” an 80-minute play that reasonably attacks injustice while drifting toward bland melodrama. Review | Mosaic’s ‘Ulysses on Bottles’ uncorks Israel’s occupied mind 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z As in some of the other recent novels, a recourse to melodrama pushes the plot along every now and then: There are crib deaths, car crashes, holdups. David Mitchell Brings His Novelistic High Jinks to the Swinging ’60s 2020-07-10T04:00:00Z But Nauzyciel is more concerned with tipping the play's unrequited loves into full-blown melodrama. Avignon festival week two roundup: Seagull dead in the water, but Ibsen comes alive 2012-07-25T15:29:08Z But you can see another, more strategic reason he might cotton to Mosley’s touching blend of parable, mystery and period melodrama. Review: The Graying of Samuel L. Jackson 2022-03-10T05:00:00Z The courtroom emptied quickly, but the two main players in this 11-day melodrama lingered. Mistrial declared in Bill Cosby sex-assault trial 2017-06-17T04:00:00Z No one could possibly write a better description of a classic melodrama villain. The making of the White City Devil: How H.H. Holmes became a serial killer legend 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z Though the story is drawn in broad strokes and overloaded with melodrama, director Mat Whitecross' exuberant feature understands the communal joy and personal necessity of rock 'n' roll. 'Spike Island's' heart beats with love of rock 'n' roll 2015-05-07T04:00:00Z And the impulse to explore Brandon’s problem in some kind of narrative leaves “Shame” caught between therapeutic melodrama and melodramatic despair. | 'Shame': ?Shame,? Directed by Steve McQueen - Review 2011-12-01T13:00:00Z She captures the nuance of gesture with extraordinary skill, creating drama but never sinking into melodrama. Oils that are different, yet complementary, at Prographica 2014-04-03T20:49:48Z “I wanted to be able to tell a story about these people’s lives that wouldn’t get pushed aside as melodrama.” ‘Sick From Freedom’ by Jim Downs, About Freed Slaves 2012-06-10T21:33:04Z Nova Y. Payton sings some long, gorgeous phrases in the bluesy ballad “Mean to Me,” but then the finish overcooks the melodrama. Review | Signature’s ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ ’ takes a while to get jazzed up 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z There is some family melodrama, and then there is a lot of hailing and odd weather. Lars von Trier's "Melancholia": an apocalyptic wedding 2011-04-08T19:09:00Z The result is a meticulously intimate yet rhapsodically lyrical melodrama that evokes its characters’ relationship to their own history with an overwhelmingly powerful sense of discovery and responsibility, pain and pride. Three Boldly Personal Visions of Black History in a Great New Film Series 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z But even by the standards of commercial melodrama it’s a pretty weak brew. Movie Review: ?The Vow,? With Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum 2012-02-09T22:50:56Z The violence takes over in the final scenes, which are shockingly crude even for a Southwestern gothic melodrama. 'Killer Joe': Matthew McConaughey kills it in dark crime comedy 2012-08-16T20:55:07Z In this movement, the hopeful, major-key passage that arrives unexpectedly near the end was hurried, if crazed, almost like a mad scene for plunging, again, to gloomy melodrama. Review: Carnegie Hall’s Season Opens With Two Faces of Cleveland 2019-10-06T04:00:00Z In the early days of cinema, when audiences had grown tired of seeing shots of everyday life, film-makers began looting the theatre, mythology, poetry, opera and Victorian melodrama for their subject matter. Super 8 ? review 2011-08-06T23:05:42Z Such melodrama will be familiar to anyone who has suffered through the affliction that is being 18. If Nietzsche Were in High School 2019-12-03T05:00:00Z The melodrama, reminiscent of Bengali TV, is pitched a little high but has no false notes. Book review: ‘The Lives of Others,’ by Neel Mukherjee The tendency to inject melodrama and sensationalism, to shy away from tough-mindedness and harshness, and to bollix up story lines, is a familiar one in open-ended adaptations of self-contained, literary novels; it almost seems unavoidable. ‘Kindred’ Review: Octavia Butler Comes to the Screen 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z He visited circuses and melodrama houses; his periodical writings covered vents and "grimacers", waxworks, freak shows, actors, gaslight fairies and clowns. Charles Dickens the dramatist: why it should've been an actor's life for Boz 2012-02-08T16:53:08Z His early works for children are great fun, especially the four Sally Lockhart novels, set in Victorian England - each one, Pullman says, "with a genuine cliché of melodrama right at the heart of it." Profile: Philip Pullman 2011-03-30T12:07:35Z It’s tempting to praise “Life of an Actress: The Musical,” a low-budget showbiz melodrama, for its pluck and old-fashioned aims. ‘Life of an Actress: The Musical,’ With Orfeh 2014-12-18T05:00:00Z It was the operatic version of the Chinese costume melodramas so loved by television audiences. Arts Playground Sprouts in China 2010-08-03T14:27:00Z I was also thrown at first by “Pose’s” blunt, almost regressive style of storytelling, which favored sudsy melodrama and sprinklings of anachronistic dialogue with words and phrases from today. Review | ‘Pose’ returns, upgrading its ‘realness’ without sacrificing its glimmer or grit 2019-06-11T04:00:00Z In this season it’s another tick on the count of occasions where realism is tossed out the window in favor of duh-doy! melodrama. It's tough to explain what makes the aggravating "Morning Show" mess appealing 2023-10-21T04:00:00Z "Lingui" never plays Amina and Maria's story for melodrama; it is quietly empowering as the women find ways of circumnavigating the patriarchy. In "Lingui," a teenager is forced to seek an abortion in Chad: "Injustice is against women, always" 2021-09-10T04:00:00Z By high school, our tales had become less fanciful, and we were more interested in melodrama. “What if we threatened to kill him?”: My scary creative relationship with another girl 2014-06-08T04:00:00Z Moments of melodrama and scenes of everyday life are stitched together by deliberately dry third-person narration. How Luchino Visconti Made History Sing 2018-06-07T04:00:00Z But if the familiar delights of those franchises — and the campiness or melodrama that come with them — don’t appeal to you, here are a few recent or coming series that are scary with a difference. Beyond Chucky: Frightening Alternatives for Halloween TV 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z It's a fatally miscellaneous scene in a movie that shifts from farce to grotesque to melodrama to straight-to-video action flick, without pretending to make sense or reassuring us that we're having a good time. "Super": The sad-sack superhero indie reaches its insane apex 2011-03-31T00:31:00Z This seemed like jokey melodrama when I first read it, but now it hits differently. Here’s Why Norm Macdonald Was Comedy Royalty. It’s Not ‘S.N.L.’ 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z With dialogue by Tennessee Williams and Paul Bowles, the film took heady flight into a sumptuous period melodrama. Farley Granger obituary 2011-03-29T11:59:19Z “I get why she hated him, but I still think she was the best when she was with him, singing-wise. It was a look at the melodrama of that.” John Waters: 'I never wanted to be a cult film-maker' 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z “I wanted the sophistication that disco offers, and the melodrama,” Ware said. How Jessie Ware Cooked Her Way Into a Musical Fantasy 2020-06-22T04:00:00Z But in the decades after its premiere, “Fedora,” based on a play by Sardou, fell out of favor, written off by critics as a crowd-pleasing melodrama lacking in substance and artistry. Met Opera Takes On ‘Fedora,’ Neglected Tale of Murder and Love 2022-12-29T05:00:00Z The work unfolds in fits and starts, with frenzied episodes, ominous clashing chords, pummeling rhythms and, occasionally, a fleeting melodic phrase like something from a silent-film melodrama. Music Review: Cameron Carpenter Performs on His Touring Instrument 2014-03-10T20:12:51Z It’s easy to make the questions that ensue sound like the stuff of Victorian melodrama: Does Anna dare to marry Mat, given her Past with a capital P? Theater Review: David Auburn Stages ‘Anna Christie’ in the Berkshires 2013-08-26T21:24:04Z At the end there is some melodrama and a hint of violence, but these are merely the coda to what has turned into a series of long, droning, random notes. | 'Our Lot': When What?s Left of a Man Is Found in His Collections 2011-06-14T22:30:35Z Set on a rambling estate in early-20th-century Tehran, “Chess” is a fevered melodrama conveyed in a poetically measured style. ‘Chess of the Wind’ Review: A Remnant of an Iran That Used to Be 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z By contrast, this melodrama about two quasi-sibling teenagers who fall in love against the backdrop of the capital's gangland in the 1960s may be overwrought, but it knows what it wants to say. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z At times, his visual style announces itself too overtly; and he tends to be too withholding, as if he were concerned about being obvious or falling into melodrama. Review: Faith Found and Lost in ‘Free in Deed’ 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z Q. A review on the pro-Palestinian Electronic Intifada Web site said the film was a “bourgeois melodrama,” which portrays “Palestine as Hollywood fantasy.” Julian Schnabel Discusses His New Film, a Palestinian Story 2011-03-22T17:11:02Z When you look past the ornament and the action, one thing you see is an utterly traditional, and thoroughly predictable, band-of-brothers and -sisters melodrama. Haven’t Watched ‘Squid Game’? Here’s What You’re Not Missing. 2021-10-11T04:00:00Z His staging scores lower on balancing the melodrama with nuance and on vocal amplification. ‘The Wild Party’: A racy musical that lets the 1920s roar 2013-08-14T20:38:50Z It's English class system melodrama as comfort food. Class-system melodrama as comfort food 2011-04-08T15:31:00Z It’s expansive enough to contain cinematic multitudes: westerns, musicals, melodramas and art films of the more rarefied type find a home here. Time Traveling at the Toronto Film Festival 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z But Robson turned melodrama into deep melancholy by simply letting Impressionistic harmonies resonate gorgeously and symbolism speak for itself. Humble virtuoso Mark Robson's piano weaves his highly personal tales 2015-01-07T05:00:00Z But the movie wisely refrains from turning these pangs of desire and regret into shrill melodrama. Movie Review: ‘10 Years,’ a Comedy Directed by Jamie Linden 2012-09-13T22:55:13Z These are all topics that unfortunately affect women, and while "Virgin River" is far from the only show to tackle these types of stories, they're most often relegated to the sidelines or added for melodrama. Understanding the relatively unsexy allure of Netflix's "Virgin River" comes down to one thing 2021-07-17T04:00:00Z Characters’ problems — parents, children, grandparents, marriage, career — seem real because they’re handled without any melodrama. For 'Mindy Project' star Chris Messina, a Cassavetes moment 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z Scandal, riches, penury — the Dublin-born Boucicault knew each of those states from the inside, and was brilliant at weaving them into luridly entertaining melodramas. Review: ‘The Streets of New York’ Is a Good Old Melodrama 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Six years ago Clint Eastwood's "Million Dollar Baby" showed up late in the release calendar and walloped enough fans of boxing melodrama cliches to send it straight to the Academy Awards. 'Fighter': Boxing film with reality in its corner 2010-12-16T16:17:00Z She began freelancing in 1945, and a year later won her first Oscar in "To Each His Own," a sentimental melodrama about unwed motherhood. Olivia de Havilland, "Gone With the Wind" star, dies at 104 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z And yet “My Gift” is … placid, light on melodrama. 20 Albums That Put a New Spin on the Holidays 2020-12-10T05:00:00Z But ultimately, "The Words" seems more interested in melodrama than anything else. Review: `Words' is both clichéd and complicated 2012-09-05T18:46:05Z But instead the melodrama amplifies to an appallingly hackneyed crescendo. In Orhan Pamuk’s New Novel, a Youthful Obsession Yields a Haunted Life 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z The border between the United States and Mexico has long been a place for vital cinema — a site for suspense, melodrama and tough-minded realism. Film Series in NYC This Week 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z Dedicated to French servicemen and wartime journalists, “Special Forces” aims to inspire but ends up wallowing in melodrama. Movie Review: ‘Special Forces,’ Directed by Stéphane Rybojad 2012-10-12T02:06:46Z This direction for the story would suggest an even bigger role for Constance, and while I get a kick out of her Southern-gothic flights of melodrama, they’re better in smaller doses. American Horror Story Finale: They Really Are a Screa-um, the Harmon Family! 2011-12-22T13:47:17Z I’ve written here recently about his mastery of melodrama as a modern, ironic variety of tragedy, and about the powerful visual style with which he invokes that idea. Douglas Sirk’s Glorious Cinema of Outsiders 2015-12-21T05:00:00Z But for that reason, it’s the closest to melodrama — saved by more ambiguity, as the onstage creator appears to doubt the worth of his art. Review: ‘Shostakovich Trilogy,’ Where Joy and Grief Flourish 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z Poison Arrow remains a pop masterpiece, its poignant lush melodrama surviving even the high camp of its spoken-word exchanges. ABC – review 2012-12-19T15:23:47Z And the big moments of inspiration and melodrama — the courtroom victories and family rapprochements that are unavoidable in this story, from this source — are also more subtle than the network norm. Review: A Jailhouse Lawyer (With a Law Degree) in ABC’s ‘For Life’ 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z While it’s as suspenseful as any Le Carré plot, it’s structured less around spycraft than around a series of seductions, overlapping and conflicting, that allow Park to indulge his fondness for moments of heightened melodrama. Review: In ‘The Little Drummer Girl,’ Spycraft Is Seduction 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z All of which makes for an unapologetically old-fashioned, beautifully shot, thunderingly unsubtle melodrama that falls somewhere between diverting twaddle and humourless hoopla. The Making Of A Lady is preposterous and proud of it 2012-12-15T00:05:00Z Nick’s observation is more wry than anguished, and its implication of melodrama — evoking that famous “thin line” sung about by the Persuaders and the Pretenders — does not seem to apply to him and Meg. Movie Review: Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan in ‘Le Week-End’ 2014-03-13T14:29:45Z The film’s late swerves into melodrama and the neighboring region of farce feel panicky and pandering. Movie Review: Lynn Shelton’s ‘Your Sister’s Sister’ 2012-06-14T21:38:38Z Aside from a few forgotten words and missed top notes, Almond remains enthusiastic and exuberant company, his ability to turn small heartaches into grand melodrama undiminished. Marc Almond – review 2012-07-10T17:15:01Z She has just that youthful verve that the movies will need when they start talking, and sassy-mouthed comedies replace some of the sentimental melodramas of the silent era. The Artist: A 'Silent' Film to Sing About 2011-11-22T15:30:45Z “A Jazzman’s Blues,” Tyler Perry’s melodrama about ill-fated teenagers who fall in love in rural Georgia, marks the writer-director-studio head’s return to his first screenplay, which he wrote in 1995. ‘A Jazzman’s Blues’ Review: Tyler Perry Revisits a Jim Crow-Era Romance 2022-09-22T04:00:00Z Hip-hop purists will surely reject the show’s approach to the most significant music genre of our time, relegated to a jumping-off point for melodrama. Review: Baz Luhrmann's
The Get Down Misses Too Many Beats 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Silver is a modernistic master of melodrama whose films have long threatened, with the wild emotional force of performances, to break the framework of the story in favor of a quasi-documentary immediacy. The Cinema’s Fear of Drama 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z But that stability is in peril as the husband, the only Black man in the writers’ room of a TV crime series, struggles to prevent his big break from devolving into a bloody “racial melodrama.” Dreams and Waking Life Blur in a New Story Collection 2020-09-01T04:00:00Z He also looked to films that blend melodrama and terror, like “Rosemary’s Baby” and “Safe.” In ‘Smile,’ Why the Grins Are So Grim 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z The absurdities don’t always cohere in this hardworking adventure, despite the lively flair of Wayne Barker narrating and playing original piano music that underscores all the mayhem and melodrama. Classic antics of ‘Laugh’ an uphill climb in Beth Henley’s latest 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Something is being said about conformism, and about gender roles, but the metaphors don’t get in the way of enjoying the eerie melodrama. Critic’s Notebook: ‘Zombeavers’ and Other Midnight Offerings at Tribeca Festival 2014-04-17T22:08:08Z Just as he saved the C.I.A. melodrama “Homeland” from its own histrionic urges, Mr. Lewis pulls “Billions,” which begins on Sunday, back from the brink of macho outlandishness with his natural gravitas. Review: ‘Billions’ Delivers a Dose of Charisma to Hedge Fund Titans 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z “Spencer” is a love story, a melodrama of maternal devotion, an early-’90s fashion parade and a very British baking show. ‘Spencer’ Review: Prisoner of the House of Windsor 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z And while they took different approaches for the gala — austerity for Bell, melodrama for Miller — both ballets had a way of sliding into a hole of reductive mediocrity. Review: The Costume Dramas of New York City Ballet 2021-10-01T04:00:00Z On a patch of land now occupied by the Newstead Children's Centre adventure playground, he clocked on for British and Colonial Films to make crime melodramas about heroic street urchins and dashing heroes of Empire. The first Native American director. Or was he? 2010-09-23T22:50:00Z This is pure melodrama, starring a brave and resourceful steamroller of an early Rube Goldberg pattern and a gang of smugglers. When William Faulkner and Langston Hughes Wrote Children’s Books 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Known for her smoky voice and sultry stare, Bacall raised the temperature in a quartet of hard-boiled 1940s thrillers, although her career went on to include musicals, melodramas and art-house controversies. Lauren Bacall dies at 89 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z There’s also the massive composition, the homage to the era’s melodrama, and sumptuous costumes and settings. A Place to Call Home is Australian television to be proud of 2013-07-18T02:32:00Z In essence, Taymor and Berger tie themselves in knots trying to shove the inherently dualistic nature of melodrama into a psychological hexahedron of their own creation. 'Spider-Man' stuck in a tangled web 2011-02-07T23:36:14Z The rest of the score, by Beo Morales, often tips over into melodrama — false notes in a production that otherwise shows remarkable tact. Dance Review: ‘Summer’s Different,’ at La MaMa’s Ellen Stewart Theater 2013-04-30T21:02:54Z In this way, “Don’t Cry for Me” rides the rickety line between tragedy and melodrama. Unhappy Families Abound in These New Books About Fathers and Sons 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z But rather than taking the traditional romantic comedy route, Remember Me is all about the melodrama. Remember Me Review: Young Love, Hold the Vampires 2010-03-12T19:35:00Z Subtlety may be in short supply — Doris’s preacher father hands her his Bible with his dying breath — but the blend of gospel standards, spiritual uplift and broad family melodrama proves hard to resist. | 'Mama, I Want to Sing: The Next Generation': Revisiting the Story of a Dutiful Daughter With a Hit Song 2011-07-03T21:11:35Z He’s handicapped by the bland, predictable melodrama of the offstage story, written by Douglas Carter Beane. Critic’s Notebook: Broadway’s Laughs, From Nathan Lane to Bette Midler 2013-05-29T16:05:07Z The emphasis here is not on conflict nor melodrama — there is need and austerity, but not a single bread line. 'How the World Was' a vivid tale of a 20th century California boyhood 2014-08-15T04:00:00Z An almost shot-for-shot remake of the corresponding episode from our Shameless, though with the melodrama ratcheted up a few notches. TV highlights: 18/09/11 2011-08-17T21:00:01Z At the hands of lesser artists, anticomania often sank into grotesque melodrama. Art Review: At the Louvre, Vivid and Varied Imaginings of Antiquity 2010-12-03T16:11:00Z If it were not so brilliant a melodrama, we should class it as a brilliant comedy. My favourite Hitchcock: The Lady Vanishes 2012-07-24T09:23:46Z Whatever “Thirteen Reasons Why” gets right about teen tendencies toward melodrama fades as the series fumbles around with tone and emotional accuracy. Review | ‘Thirteen Reasons Why’ shows how adults can really mess up teen angst 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z When it finally debuted, audiences greeted it coolly, and then some, resisting its melodrama and at times emotionally incoherent sequencing. Cannes 2014: Five lessons from this year's film festival 2014-05-27T04:00:00Z Mr. Busch channeled the obsession of his youth — the history of American cinema with a special emphasis on distressed but resourceful dames — into vehicles that spoofed the hoary conventions of the Hollywood melodrama. The Week Ahead: June 20 ? 26 2010-06-17T14:39:00Z Like the three earlier films also titled “A Star Is Born” — and like the story’s 1932 archetype, “What Price Hollywood?” — this version ebbs and flows with emotions and melodrama. In ‘A Star Is Born,’ Equality Is Deadly 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z Featuring soaring music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, “Phantom” is a Gothic melodrama about a masked music lover who haunts the Paris Opera House and becomes fixated on a young soprano. ‘Phantom of the Opera’ to Delay Broadway Closing After Sales Spike 2022-11-29T05:00:00Z When a voraciously needy performer stirs up an audience by wringing the last drop of melodrama from a song, it’s known in the trade as schmacting. Music Review: Cabaret Stint for Michele Lee at 54 Below 2014-02-05T22:16:19Z |
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