I think Sirk has made the most complex, the naughtiest, melodramas.
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Both are intelligent and thoroughly imagined — they're melodramas with no artificial aftertaste.
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She did a TV show last summer, one of those high-school melodramas.
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Their garish melodramas and dark conspiracies have taken on the rosy glow of wishful thinking.
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Instead it's very jolting and intense in a way that doesn't resemble more classical melodramas.
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Spoiler alert, as with all British class melodramas: any possible too-fast engagement ends in disaster.
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In this series, as in so many other small-town melodramas, that "something" is a murder.
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Unbeknown to Maya, her melodramas are as essential to Anna as Anna's constant affirmations are to Maya.
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Clinton first mentioned her name has the eerie echo of one of the sloshy melodramas she starred in.
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In a great performance, and an insightful production, these qualities distinguish the opera from other late-Romantic melodramas.
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No one on these melodramas ever acts like this behavior is as big of a problem as it is.
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It doesn't rank up there with "Head-On" (2004) and "The Edge of Heaven" (2007), Mr. Akin's masterwork melodramas.
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At the Gaumont studio, where she worked until 1906, she directed hundreds of fantasies, comedies, melodramas and historical films.
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These melodramas, which are so distasteful to the contemporary European and American palate, play well in Kuala Lumpur and Cairo.
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In "The Wandering Soap Opera," reality itself is reimagined as an interlocking set of interminable melodramas, crime stories and romances.
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I think that may be key to how we identify with melodramas, and to the eternal relevance of the genre.
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It's a handy plot device, answering the question that plagues and nearly ruins similar melodramas like Grey's Anatomy or Desperate Housewives.
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It's possible to both remain professional and do him a good turn without sharing the plotlines of your workplace's psychological melodramas.
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But, as in the melodramas that were once bread-and-butter to great popular actresses, it's the maternal fierceness that prevails.
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The early moments find the marriage between Marty and Wendy on the rocks and their children absorbed in their own melodramas.
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An erudite German-born essayist, Mr. Elsaesser was as enthusiastic about the films of Fassbinder as he was about Hollywood melodramas.
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But for many of us, our first encounter with the cornball king's misty-eyed melodramas was A Walk to Remember in 2002.
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It's expansive enough to contain cinematic multitudes: westerns, musicals, melodramas and art films of the more rarefied type find a home here.
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At times drawing on the visual language of suburban melodramas, Actress is a startling, challenging movie that doesn't believe in simple answers.
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There are horror freakouts, action adventures, chin-stroking dramas, goofball comedies, tear-soaked melodramas, rarefied art films and down-and-dirty exploitation flicks.
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What they bring are kitschy spectacles, melodramas told through broad acting and ballet conflated with acrobatics, all underlined by formulaic music, Chinese and Western.
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" 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.
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It fits with the overall self-seriousness and ponderousness of much serial TV these days, even on a cable channel devoted to teenage melodramas.
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Both "Waves" and "Marriage Story" are both family melodramas about a crisis created by male characters, who also carry the brunt of that crisis.
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By exploring the reasons for it, the documentary provides sometimes unintentional insight into the way "bad mom" melodramas influence the public and criminal justice system.
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This was a good year for female-centered adult melodramas, examining the complexities of women's relationships with each other, with men, and with their professions.
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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.
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Old-school scripted melodramas — like soaps — could count on an endless supply of surprise deaths and season-climax marriages and breakups to keep viewers hooked.
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Bharara's office, however, has employed what are known as "speaking complaints," which, under the guise of showing probable cause, assume the form of forensic melodramas.
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Pauly D's side hustle as a DJ placed him as an important character, allowing him to grab headlines as much as Snooki's post-Hilton tabloid melodramas.
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Their missteps and melodramas make for comic gold, but the film has dark twists that are honest about the nepotism, depression and sexism in the army.
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Issei and I depart for a local tiki bar, where we consume beer, peanuts, and garlicky rice while discussing the HBO-Showtime rivalry and other melodramas.
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The German auteur — a wildly prolific wunderkind whose sardonic melodramas served to re-establish German cinema on the international stage — appeared at once affable and menacing.
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Dawn Clements, whose intricate drawings and watercolors captured detailed scenes from her own life and from movie melodramas, often on a panoramic scale, died on Dec.
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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.
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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.
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Soon after, he was a contract director at Warner (and a subsidiary, First National), the scrappiest of studios, grinding out action films and hard-boiled melodramas.
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The result, Mr. Handler said, comes closer to approximating the cadence of serialized melodramas like "The Perils of Pauline," to which his series owes a debt.
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In last half of the 232s, Blogspot nurtured Grizzly Bear's ascent from lo-fi halo folk Brooklyn band to indie rock avatars scoring Ryan Gosling melodramas.
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Nor do they belong to that class of domestic melodramas (see: "August: Osage County") in which a warring, divided family festers with the sins of their nation.
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Melodramas often follow such inside-out structures, amplifying the desires that run counter to the official narrative of a life, and defying the forces that thwarted it.
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The men were crammed together, sitting on the floor and taking turns sleeping as a television blared Turkish and American melodramas and action movies dubbed in Arabic.
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What he's good at is what might be called deal theater — made-for-TV melodramas with self-generated crises, over-the-top demands, and suspenseful arbitrary deadlines.
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The scenarios depicted throughout Cao's practice, whether real or imagined, vacillate between spaces of hope and post-apocalyptic melodramas in which the catalyst for disaster is unclear.
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Geostorm could just as well have originated with someone channel-surfing through news channels and family melodramas, getting half-glimpses of reports on terrorist attacks and political commentary.
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Your home life becomes a series of mini-melodramas and you are no longer on your best behavior — or on speaking terms with your housemate, for that matter.
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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.
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She loved listening to soap operas and melodramas, and often incorporated into her work both the entertainment elements of the soaps and the menace of the Brothers Grimm.
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In the 2013 book The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir, Gothic Melodramas, and Ghost Stories of the 1940s and 1950s, published by MER.
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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.
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The son of Max Ophuls, the great German director of romantic melodramas ("La Ronde"), Mr. Ophuls tried fiction filmmaking with mixed results and moved into nonfiction to find work.
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Their fury unfolded in an astounding blast of threats and insults made possible by the cathartic properties of Twitter -- a medium unavailable to the protagonists of previous Washington melodramas.
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Micheaux's silent films are stark melodramas with sharply analytical displays of societal fault lines, both those which divided whites from blacks and those which divided the black community itself.
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Even though those two operas, both concise melodramas about love and murder, were not originally intended to be performed together, these days they form opera's most enduring double bill.
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One thing I do relate to is women's cinema from the 30s and 40s—movies like Mildred Pierce, Leave Her to Heaven, Baby Face, all of those Hollywood melodramas.
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It's clear Fogelman thinks of the saga of the Pearsons as some sort of fundamental, deeply rooted American myth — a family melodrama that stands in for all family melodramas.
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What does this soap opera tell us, other than that Britain is ruled by an incestuous clique of frenemies who delight in turning even the most serious issues into melodramas?
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In the original 1990–91 ABC series, Lynch and Frost borrowed elements from serialized TV, like daytime soaps and police procedurals, and classic Hollywood, like film noir and lurid melodramas.
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This spans a variety of different media — blistering pop albums (Beyoncé's "Lemonade"), dramatic film ensembles ("Waiting to Exhale"), hopeful romantic comedies ("Something New") and occasionally poignant melodramas ("Being Mary Jane").
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A parody of Hollywood melodramas of the late sixties, it stars Samantha Robinson as a self-described love addict who uses spells to attract men and render them emotionally dependent.
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Hitchcock was interested in the psychological, but mid-century social melodramas also tended to explore cultural anxieties, like changing family norms and the effects of technology on ordinary people's lives.
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It not only made reviewers go goo-goo for Gaga, but it also seems to have reminded them that unabashedly heartfelt melodramas still have a place in the world in 2018.
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Thomas Elsaesser, an influential German-born film scholar and teacher whose writings brimmed with a fascination for Hollywood melodramas, the works of Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Weimar-era movies, died on Dec.
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In Coma, we perceive it in the way in which two Damascene women watch Egyptian TV melodramas, their crying intensifying as they will soon have to say goodbye to their daughter and nephew.
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While the middlebrow Thalberg looked to the Broadway stage for inspiration, Laemmle was drawn to more sensational fare, producing "Dracula" and "Frankenstein" as well as the adultery melodramas directed by John M. Stahl.
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It's been 10 years since Gossip Girl hit the CW and won over viewers with the fantastical melodramas of the New York City elite, but Blair Waldorf's signature stylish headbands will live on forever.
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Every year during the holy month of Ramadan, Egyptians crowd around their televisions to gorge on big-budget mini-series starring the country's top actors, including weepy melodramas, police procedurals and sweeping historical epics.
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Produced by a small studio in Turin and shot largely on the Italian Riviera, "Filibus" is a lighthearted analogue to "Fantômas" and "Les Vampires," the pulpy serial melodramas produced in France by Louis Feuillade.
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Almodóvar was in a new phase of his career, directing polished, Oscar-winning melodramas like "All About My Mother" and "Talk to Her," while Banderas had become a Hollywood star, blossoming outside Almodóvar's tutelage.
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And the more the Trump White House remains mired in its own melodramas, the more plausible it becomes that the Trump-era House and Senate set a record for risk avoidance and legislative inactivity.
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As it turns out, their interconnected lives have quite as much romance, villainy, joy and suffering as the ones in the stock melodramas they perform as they stop at the river towns along their route.
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Bodice rippers, however, are far from mindless guilty-pleasure television; these delightfully frothy, heaving-bosom period melodramas offer viewers as much sexy escapism as more "prestigious" fare like Game of Thrones or House of Cards.
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Borg has played Connors enough times — he'd won four of their previous five matches after a two-year stretch in which he'd lost six in a row — to not be fazed by the American's melodramas.
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" A book of her essays, "Feminism and American Literary History" (1992), led with a 1981 essay that is still being studied and quoted: "Melodramas of Beset Manhood: How Theories of American Fiction Exclude Women Authors.
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He filled huge soundstages with gigantic mobile sets and props to achieve wondrous transformations; he unfolded grand melodramas and sly sex comedies in jazz-dance pantomimes that relied on space-bending and eye-tricking editing.
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Great social melodramas gave their characters what they wanted, and in so doing, they critiqued those very desires, the culture that created them, and — perhaps most importantly — the audience that's pulling for them all along.
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With the exception of last year's immensely popular historical biopic, Mr. Tarog's "Heneral Luna," commercial screens continue to be dominated by thinly plotted but crowd-pleasing melodramas, romantic comedies and action films, along with Hollywood imports.
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If you aren't particularly attached to the book, and if you have a taste for World War II melodramas with lots of big-band music on the soundtrack, then this "Catch-22" may suit you fine.
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" That same year, Molly Haskell observed that while male friendship had been the backbone of the genre film, it was now "the overt and exclusive 'love interest'" in "womanless melodramas" like "Easy Rider" and "The Godfather.
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One essay, "Tales of Sound and Fury: Observations on the Family Melodrama," analyzed films by the director Douglas Sirk, who was also German, and the "melancholy energy" that colors, sets and camera movements create in melodramas.
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Bookshelf During its New York heyday a century ago, the Yiddish theater, with its Shakespearean tragedies, tear-jerking melodramas and ludicrous comedies, was a proving ground from which some stars graduated to the borscht belt and beyond.
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Melodramas and musicals followed, and going to the theater soon became the favorite pastime of hard-pressed tenement dwellers — seeing a show was what you splurged on — and helped ease new immigrants into the English-speaking world.
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There are tear-splashed melodramas like Alice Guy Blaché's "The Ocean Waif" (219), but also slapstick comedies like Mabel Normand's "Caught in a Cabaret," starring Charlie Chaplin (21920), and Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley's thriller "Suspense" (1913).
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But like the similar cinematic provocateurs John Waters, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Lars von Trier, the young Jackson mitigates the ugliness he's wallowing in by borrowing liberally from florid Hollywood melodramas with their big colors and bigger emotions.
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Scripted stories strive to acknowledge that in their own way, whether syrupy melodramas and meet-cute rom-coms—but it's the ersatz verité of these gaudy dating shows that fully captures the shaggy unpredictability of passion and partnership.
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A presidential campaign is above all a noise factory, with all sorts of amplified spats, exaggerated accusations, petty media fixations and silly melodramas vying to come between a candidate and what he or she knows to be right.
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In adapting the novel to the big screen, the filmmakers clearly had in mind another touchpoint: the highly stylized social melodramas of the 1950s, most famously from filmmakers like Douglas Sirk, who combined high drama and social critique.
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And like all family melodramas, it uses each member of the extended family (which, in this case, includes the Kayce's extended family on the reservation, and the crew of cowboys "branded" in loyalty to Dutton) to act out larger societal conflicts.
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This is, of course, the kind of "bad mom" story built around two other protagonists of true crime melodramas — Casey Anthony and Darlie Routier — whose cases have been getting a second look this summer, on network and cable television, respectively.
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But perhaps naming the subgenre of acclaimed masc melodramas, which Call Me by Your Name is now joining, as just that — as studies of masculine emotion — can be a reminder of how narrowly gendered the current claims to universality still are.
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The merciless parody of purple-prosed, rural, English melodramas (stay with me: You don't have to be a master of the form to get Gibbons's jokes) stars Flora Poste, an urbane, 19-year-old orphan with a small yearly allowance.
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As palace-bound melodramas go, "Victoria" is perfectly easy to watch, as long as you don't mind that it never for a second feels as if you were watching something that could actually have taken place in the mid-19th century.
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While that was not exactly the sort of happy ending that neatly ties up the overlapping subplots of Globo melodramas, it was applauded by an increasingly active feminist movement that has long denounced the deep-seated sexism in Brazilian culture.
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The more mainstream services such as Netflix and Amazon don't offer a whole lot of black filmmaking outside of the parameters established by Tyler Perry and David E. Talbert — relatively conventional melodramas and comedies with varying amounts of social consciousness.
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Far from being the wish-fulfillment fantasies they appeared to be on the surface, the best mid-century social melodramas (by Sirk and others) actually covertly critiqued the ideology they appeared to support, through a heavy dose of dramatic irony.
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With the advance of sound, all-singing-all-dancing melodramas and religious epics grew popular with Indian audiences, but a number of "social-problem" films, naturalistic in their depiction, also found fans, and this, despite being on a less-than-equal footing.
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The streets around Second Avenue south of 19813th Street formed a neighborhood where less than a century earlier a dozen Yiddish theaters had drawn flocks of garment workers, peddlers and shopkeepers to see everything from "King Lear" in Yiddish to schmaltzy family melodramas.
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It's only one of a few disparate storytelling strands that Almodóvar stitches together — another involves Mallo's complicated relationship with addiction and a long lost lover — but unlike so many of Almodóvar's earlier melodramas, this film's plot gently saunters more than it twists.
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To stay in Hollywood, though, it's worth asking whether movies like "Creed" and "The Force Awakens" — and also "Joy," David O. Russell's sometimes marvelous, sometimes chaotic throwback to the striving-woman melodramas of the '30s and '40s — are offering palliative fantasies or something more constructive.
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Last week's rebranding simply aims to alert the outside world to changes that went into effect a decade ago, when ABC Family adopted the tagline "A new kind of family" and began airing edgy, progressive melodramas aimed at a predominantly female young adult audience.
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Not the peacocks preening on the sidewalks, you understand, in their early fall furs and Chrysler Building wedges, but rather the broadly drawn personas that the designers conjured up on the catwalks, with their shrugged-on airs of evening melodramas and art-house flicks.
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The latest entry in Alex Grecian's lurid series of Victorian melodramas expands on the author's obsessive interest in Jack the Ripper with another potboiler in which Saucy Jack is alive and well and still tormenting Inspector Walter Day of Scotland Yard's elite new Murder Squad.
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Big Wednesday had the misfortune of being lost in 1978, a peak year for both pre-Boomer nostalgia and Vietnam melodramas, and as it is neither Grease or Animal House nor The Deer Hunter or Coming Home, it fell all the way through the cracks.
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Chinese soap operas and Korean romantic comedies, British conspiracy thrillers, Indian gangster sagas, moody Scandinavian ghost stories, Mexican melodramas, Spanish crime capers, French children's shows and Japanese anime — the only bar to entry is how many TV and streaming subscriptions you're willing to spring for.
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She's also, initially, a rebuke of the innocent white female savior at the center of so many present-day dramas and melodramas about race (think of Skeeter, the white heroine of "The Help," or Lily Owens, the white protagonist in "The Secret Life of Bees").
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Both are middle-class suburban melodramas that resonate with onlookers because they juxtapose the spectacle of the enviable-husband-gone-bad with the iconography of the white, innocent wife, who cannot seek justice for herself, but on whose behalf the public and media can be galvanized.
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Because the Sanctum's signature fusion of lurid content and arch humor toeing the line of camp offered many thespians a reprieve from a diet of soft-focus melodramas and dignified theatre work — not to mention a quick check — it attracted the cream of the day's crop.
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In a 22007 essay, a screenwriter named Marion Fairfax argued that since women predominated in movie audiences—one reason that domestic melodramas, adventure serials featuring acts of female derring-do, and sexy sheikh movies all did well—female screenwriters enjoyed an advantage over their male counterparts.
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Its emphasis on a mother and daughter relationship, in particular, brings to mind maternal melodramas like the glorious weepie "Stella Dallas" (1937), about a woman who asks her wealthy estranged husband to finish raising their daughter so that the girl can live like the people in movies.
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There aren't many careers that combine musicals, melodramas and fantasias from martial arts directors, but such is the case with Sylvia Chang, the Taiwan-born writer, director and actress recently seen in the futuristic, Australia-set segment of Jia Zhangke's "Mountains May Depart" (on May 27).
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"As palace-bound melodramas go, 'Victoria' is perfectly easy to watch, as long as you don't mind that it never for a second feels as if you were watching something that could actually have taken place in the mid-19th century," Mike Hale wrote in The Times.
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The body of work he's produced since 2002 — self-directed live performances, web series, and music videos, featuring over 30 characters, all part of the same family tree — for which he's received countless accolades, mirror the soap opera archetypes and Hollywood melodramas so loved by his family.
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Borrowing from a range of sources, including, most notably, Hindu mythology, science fiction and queer theory, Ganesh's reincarnated comic-book melodramas replaced misogynistic tales of moustachioed, warrior men and dainty damsels in distress with quirky, mutilated, multi-limbed and bare-breasted nymphs and lesbian orgies in fantastical, mythic worlds.
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On the other hand, if you do have some experience with African TV — the glossy, unapologetic melodramas of Nollywood or the viscerally brutal action thrillers of South Africa — you may find "Queen Sono" unsatisfyingly in-between, a halfhearted and problematic attempt to dress up a soft Western-style drama.
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New Brooklyn Theater and feath7183r theory, of which Kelly is the artistic director, present the premiere of "We May Never Dance Again®," a work built from a series of mini-melodramas inspired by events in pop culture that explore the denial of death and the end of the world.
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But Disney, for all its success in certain areas of show business (animated films and big franchise movies; family sitcoms and fast-paced melodramas on TV), lacks an obvious partner to make the sort of big, splashy drama series — think Game of Thrones or Westworld or Stranger Things — that suck up media attention, cultural oxygen, and viewers.
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" The word applies more obviously to romantic melodramas, in which two lovers are kept apart by geography or time; I'm actually stealing this application from the New Yorker critic David Denby, who used it to describe the way Jude Law and Nicole Kidman find their way to each other across the brutal terrain of "Cold Mountain.
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She admired David Fincher's work with Madonna, which felt like four-minute melodramas, and she was drawn to experiments like Prodigy's "Smack My Bitch Up," a cinéma-vérité chronicle that follows a drunken, coked-up lowlife through a night out in London—fighting, vomiting, groping women—until, in the last scene, the lowlife is revealed to be a woman.
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The raffishness, the abruptness, the fusillade of insults and wisecracks; the fascination with violence and the illicit; the division of the world into the knowing (typically urban and male) and the saps (often rural)—such qualities made the comedies and the melodramas of the Depression a hardheaded new American art, an art that moved faster and ran shallower than life.
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That said, speaking with him, there is a feeling of him starting anew with his life at forty, which perhaps the optimistic in him feels sometimes that he can begin a sexual life with a perspective of a forty-year-old man rather than be drowning in the theatrical melodramas that surrounded most of us when we began our sexual experiences.
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I had just returned to the United States after living in my father's country of Trinidad and Tobago for three years, and the televised melodramas that would cement my coming-of-age as a black woman — Anita Hill testifying at Clarence Thomas's confirmation hearings, the videotape of Los Angeles police officers beating Rodney King, the O.J. Simpson Bronco chase — had yet to happen.
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His career ran the gamut of leading roles in Hollywood, including family adventure films (103,210 Leagues Under the Sea in 21996), Westerns (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in 250), war films (Paths of Glory in 1957), historical melodramas (the Revolutionary War–set The Devil's Disciple in 1959), contemporary thrillers (Seven Days in May in 1964), and sci-fi action films (Saturn 3 in 1980) — often with his regular costar Burt Lancaster.
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