Sentences with word «melodrama»

He also expertly incorporates the sweeping romance of melodramas of the day by Douglas Sirk.

While Dinklage gives the material his best shot, the stylish touches from director Mark Palansky (Penelope) are undermined by the contrivances in his screenplay, which buries its gimmicky sci - fi elements in favor of manipulative melodrama about the value of preserving memories.

Even when the film becomes a little bogged down in melodrama in it's final half - hour (incidentally, the whole thing's around half - an - hour too long), it's his genial good nature that keeps it watchable.

Modelled in dark, muddy tones, sparked at significant passages with impasto whites and judiciously applied notes of intense red, Saulnier revisits the nightmare environs of Romantic melodrama with imagery that seems to twist itself into gravity - defying mayhem.

Princess Cyd only occasionally stumbles into melodrama with the majority of the film made up of subtle moments between characters.

«Phoenix» is a dark romantic melodrama about the Holocaust, an intimate study of guilt — survivor's guilt, and survive - at - all costs guilt.

Yang takes the long view, transforming the ingredients of family melodrama into a serene, generous, comic vision of our tangled urban lives.

So what passes for melodrama in some genres would be seen as normal in others.

In fact, the scene celebrates an earlier brand of Hollywood melodrama from the creative team reunited on Two Weeks: director Minnelli, actor Douglas and producer John Houseman.

On Wednesday 9 December, Cambridge University scholar John David Rhodes delivered a detailed and knowledgable talk on queer melodrama as part of the BFI's «Love» season.

'' [J] ust like a soap opera, it relies heavily on melodrama until the very end, whereupon readers discover that very little has actually happened.

: Speaking of camp, writer - star Charles Busch («Psycho Beach Party») delivers a fresh, funny spoof of Hollywood melodramas with this tale of an ex-diva (the cross-dressing Busch), her murdered hubby (Philip Baker Hall), her suspicious kids (Natasha Lyonne and Stark Sands) and her gigolo lover (Jason Priestley).

They are just insecure, and Nagy and the actors» portrayal of them as such helps to keep the potential for melodrama at bay.

Waterline, a first film from Michal Otlowski, plays it procedurally straight and relentlessly glamourless; the late, lamented AMC series The Killing almost looks like romantic melodrama by comparison — though as a matter of fact there are moments when Budnik and her new - to - the - force partner Sebastian Fabijalski seem close to channeling Linden and Holder from that show.

Coincidentally enough, in 1946 both Bette Davis and Joan Crawford starred in mediocre melodramas set in the world of classical music.

You really do feel for these characters in a way that doesn't step into melodrama like it so easily could.

I'm a bit ashamed to admit it, but I found that I was craving a little more melodrama in Syriana.

The upcoming week's selections include two prime crime melodramas from the fifties, both frenetic dispatches from the height of the cold war: Robert Al...

A schmaltzy family melodrama starring the handsome Troy Donahue at the height of his popularity as a heartthrob.

If it had been produced by a major Western studio, the story no doubt would have devolved into high melodrama with a tidy ending.

Ramin weaves an intricate family melodrama which acts as a metaphor for the bigger geopolitical problem facing the Midwestern farming communities.

Overall another solid season of the best melodrama on television.

On paper Cecile Tang Shu Shuen's The Arch is an old - fashioned melodrama about a widow and her daughter both falling in love with a visiting soldier, but her stylistically bold approach distinguishes it as one of the most exciting and influential debuts in Chinese cinema.

But cinema can make melodrama seem not just real, but urgent and relevant.

Writer - director Derek Cianfrance knew he was dealing with a story full of coincidences when he adapted M.L. Stedman's novel The Light Between Oceans, so he avoided melodrama by holding himself and his excellent actors in check.

Part mystery and part melodrama, the film Belle is about Dido Elizabeth Belle (Gugu Mbatha - Raw).

It's a contemporary slant on those great Victorian Gothic melodramas from the good old days, like Ivy and Dragonwyck — the kind of thing Gene Tierney used to do in her sleep.

What's a domestic melodrama without a mom to kill off, to sicken, to render monstrous or otherwise AWOL?

At times, the shifts between melodrama and heist caper recall Argo, but Trumbo's stakes are lower, its goals are more diffuse, and its comic elements aren't as separated.

In fact, «Mildred Pierce,» the period melodrama starring Kate Winslet in the role that Joan Crawford made famous in 1945, earned the most nominations, with a staggering 21 nods including best miniseries, best actress for Winslet, and best director for Todd...

He may not have left with dignity, exactly, but there was a certain stoic integrity to his choice to go without melodrama.

One reviewer, who didn't appreciate Water for Elephants, wrote the story off as melodramatic - to which one has to respond, how could a book about the circus not be melodramatic when melodrama virtually defines the circus!

Devoid of much feeling, the tug - of - war love angles fail to grip us like they should in the climactic final scenes, where overwrought melodrama takes center stage.

Interesting little melodrama based on a novel by Arthur Roth and starring Robert Mitchum as Dermot O'Neil, a young IRA man who begins to regret his decision to become involved in an attack on Britain in the early years of the Second World War.

I'm a big fan of film noir and the noir aesthetic that permeates a lot of old Hollywood melodramas where men are corrupted by femme fatale characters who look like the platinum blonde that Rachel McAdams plays.

Schlesinger is fussily faithful to Hardy; the downside is a somewhat stolid pace that emphasises melodrama over emotional tragedy.

Susanne Bier, who asked such intriguing moral questions in In a Better World, has not located the beating heart of a B - movie melodrama about a star - crossed marriage, and presides over a risible denouement.

Eisler, who is about as progressive as one can be, reacts to the latest over-the-top melodrama of the anti-Amazonians as follows:

James L. Brooks's mother - daughter melodrama plays like a three - season television series condensed into just over two hours.

9:45 pm — IFC — Far From Heaven Director Todd Haynes homages 1950s melodrama king Douglas Sirk with this film, loosely based on Sirk's All That Heaven Allows.

Although «Lion» gets bogged down in some soapy melodrama in the latter half, there's enough to like to forgive its faults.

Written On The Wind — A great Douglas Sirk melodrama which I wrote about a couple weeks ago.

Great American Melodrama [phone] Family - oriented theater featuring musicals, comedies and audience participation.

A stronger actress, say Michelle Pfeiffer or Cate Blanchette, would have given this political melodrama more credibility and power, but Andie MacDowell is poorly cast and she seems lost.

It's teen melodrama all right, but hardly cheap.

As he watches the cheap melodrama unfold he scoffs at the quality of the storytelling, and one can't help wondering how this incarnation of Sherlock would react to Robert Downey Jr.'s action - packed escapades or Benedict Cumberbatch's near - robotic sleuthing — these two actors having redefined the iconic character for the 21st century.

Eventually, the film lurches slightly toward melodrama as Francine strikes up a romance with Georges while he's on leave from the army.

The performances from Hawkins, Jones, Jenkins and Spencer, the intricate design of every sumptuous moment framed beautifully, all of it adds up to a wonderful ode to classic melodrama through a lens only a unique mind like Guillermo Del Toro could bring to the screen.