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The most bizarre of the cinematic sub-genres is the so called "The Great Ladies of the Grand Guignol": camp horror films which combined over-the-top melodrama with gothic thrills and always starred by seasoned and almost forgotten actress from hollywood golden age in unflattering roles of either long suffering victims or screeching evil harpies.
This gloriously turgid melodrama represents Douglas Sirk at his most high strung.
My Left Foot was a John Ford alike movie and this one is a Chaplin alike movie (not because this is funny, but Chaplin at that great sense of melodrama that brings tears to your eyes.)
These reasons, in my opinion, are sufficient to consider Fox a noteworthy director, even when his feeling for the melodrama is a tad out of control.
I f you thought Sam Mendes' first film, the much heralded American BEAUTY was a movie with style to spare, wait until you see his highly anticipated second effort, the unrelentingly grim 30's gangster melodrama ROAD TO PERDITION.
Don't pass up this hothouse melodrama, chock full of creepily exotic blooms, if it comes your way; it's a remarkable movie.
Except for a single instance at the very end of the movie, I watched with interest and did not have to turn away or roll my eyes at any self-indulgent melodrama.
Low budget Brit pop melodrama focuses on a girl who wants to be a star, becomes one and then finds it all a bit too much.
Popular French art/cult director Jean Rollin's first foray into the horror genre calls itself a two-part melodrama and is divided into two segments that overlap; "Part One: The Rape of the Vampire" and "Part Two: The Vampire Women."
This is only a surface melodrama, for, like Lon's other great triumphs in film, this film presents a story in which the pains and tribulations of Lon's character are only too predictable.... broken by moments of complete shock.
Based on the bestselling novel by Grace Metalious, Peyton Place is a solid melodrama all about the secrets and scandals of a small New England town.
A sardonic spoof of the car sales business loaded with gratuitous sex, crime, and melodrama as filler, "Suckers" is a "B" flick a best.
Ridiculous melodrama and overblown sentimentality is the only thing Sidney Lumet has to offer.
An entertaining, epic melodrama that never outstays its welcome, despite the long running length.
The film chooses to be sci-fi and then it chooses to have melodrama as well?
But anyway, this film looked like was Saturday afternoon BET melodrama with a good budget.
This is a great one for given it to you both as a straight-ahead melodrama, And as a kind-of symbolic deal for where the nation (and the world) was at the time.
Still I disagree that we don't get the gist of this gripping melodrama or that the racing scenes aren't great.
Far from the rip-up comedy that ads presented, this depressing "Papa was a heroine addict and Mama dried weed in our oven" melodrama ruined my weekend.
The Undead is a very silly piece of melodrama from Roger Corman.
Just more of Hollywood trying to use way too much melodrama.
This is Citizen Kane of the melodrama genre.
Recently I saw Anna May Wong in PICCADILLY, a stylish silent melodrama made in England in 1929, and while the film had its flaws I felt that it was quite interesting and unusual over all, and that its leading lady was fascinating.
A strange collision of film-noir, performance art and Sirkian melodrama, Singapore Sling is an absolute must for fans of extreme film-making.
Had Preminger not also served as the film's producer, I might think this melodrama may have been foisted upon him as an obligation (it certainly doesn't seem like material he'd be attracted to).
But the acting is strong, and his son's control of story, characters and visual imagery makes this an engrossing, highly watchable old-fashioned melodrama.
Instead of the brooding gothic horror we might reasonably expect, we are subjected to a barrage of flashy sensationalised melodrama.
It also dips into melodrama in a couple scenes involving Dennis Hopper's stock villain, and some of the other characters needed to be fleshed out more.
It's what I would call a melodrama, but has great characters, good pacing and a tightly-written script.
As the director says on the DVD, 'this is melodrama.'
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