Both movies turn into male weepies and are better for it, offering viewers "emotional immediacy," to circle back to Durgnat.
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Three generations of Spanish women cope with life's troubles in this movie from Pedro Almodóvar, wrung from telenovelas and Hollywood weepies.
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Here, as before, the cinematic reference point is Douglas Sirk, whose finely wrought, visually lush weepies have long figured among Mr. Almodóvar's key inspirations.
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So on top of being too exhausted to do much (a common physical symptom of the weepies), I would get really angsty and negative in the morning.
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Rilo Kiley, the Weepies, the New Pornographers — bands that weren't underground but that hadn't yet cracked the mainstream enough to hit me, a decidedly uncool non–music scene person.
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"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.
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Born in 1897 to Danish parents living in Hamburg, Germany, he was a European intellectual who began his career directing classic plays in provincial Germany and wound up making florid, wide-screen Hollywood weepies like "Imitation of Life" (1959).
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If he is unafraid of the clichés of disowned genres, and inhabits so lovingly the women who uttered them, perhaps that's because they actually had more to say than the dismissive term "weepies" (or, for that matter, "camp") implies.
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The heart has its reasons, and those reasons have been most searchingly explored not by romantic comedies, snuffling weepies, or the phantasmagoria of Marvel but by the exploits of a battery-powered spaceman and a cowboy with a pull string in his back.
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Those clipped tones and eccentric pronunciations eventually became part of the drag vocabulary — and they certainly are part of the joy of "The Confession of Lily Dare," Charles Busch's delicious mash-up of pre-Code weepies that opened on Wednesday at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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For all their chatter and violence, Quentin Tarantino's films are male weepies of a type, and one way to look at his "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" is through the complementary relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio's twitchily self-doubting actor and Brad Pitt's self-confident stuntman.
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Whatever you call it, the series is big, eclectic and full of interesting movies, from early films like the silent classic "Sunrise" and the Barbara Stanwyck tour de force "Stella Dallas," to classic Douglas Sirk weepies, to modern works by directors like Todd Haynes, Pedro Almodóvar and Wong Kar Wai.
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The discography of The Weepies, an indie pop-folk band fronted by singer- songwriters Deb Talan and Steve Tannen, contains five studio albums, one extended play and six singles. The Weepies released their first album, Happiness, through an independent label. After signing with Nettwerk, they released their second album in 2006, Say I Am You. In that same year, they released a Live Session (The Weepies EP) featuring songs from "Say I Am You", four songs from Deb and Steve's previous work, and one song from their future album "Hideaway'".
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The Weepies' fourth full-length album, Be My Thrill, was released in August 2010, and featured Colbie Caillat in back-up vocals on the track "I Was Made for Sunny Days." The album topped the Top 200 Billboard Charts at No. 34 and remained at No. 3 on Billboard's Top Folk albums for nine weeks.[ The Weepies' Billboard Chart] Billboard.com February 8, 2010.
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Steven J. "Steve" Tannen (born 1968) is an American singer-songwriter. He is best known for being in the folk-pop duo The Weepies.
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Happiness is the first studio album released by pop-folk band The Weepies. It was released independently by the band on November 29, 2003.
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The band's subsequent supporting tour had 26 sold-out shows across the United States.The Weepies Announce First Tour In 4 Years! Nettwerk Press Blog. August 5, 2010.
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Deborah Ruth "Deb" Talan (born January 27, 1968) is an American singer- songwriter. She is best known for being part of the folk-pop duo The Weepies.
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He has opened for or shared billing with Ana Egge, Southpaw Jones, Tom Freund, The Weepies, Bob SchneiderMargaret Moser, "Accidental Electrician, Matt Sever's shocking story" Austin Chronicle, June 24, 2011. and the Asylum Street Spankers.
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Sirens is the fifth album by pop-folk duo The Weepies. It was released in 2015, their first album in five years, by Nettwerk. It was recorded in 2014 during Deb Talan's battle with breast cancer.
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In 2003, Thomas was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Elvis Costello & the Attractions. In Summer, 2015, Thomas hit the road as drummer for the summer tour of the folk-pop duo, The Weepies.
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It is also featured in episode 3 of the second season of Dirty Sexy Money in a scene where The Weepies appear themselves, performing the song. The song "Happiness" is featured in the episode "Informed Consent" from the third season of TV series House M.D..
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Hideaway is the third album released by The Weepies. It was released on April 2, 2008 by Nettwerk. The album debuted at number 31 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 14,000 copies in its first week.Katie Hasty, "Mariah Carey Remains Atop Billboard 200", Billboard.
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Frank Lenz (born 18 June 1967 in San Leandro, California) is a drummer from Southern California who has done work for many bands and artists, including Richard Swift, The Weepies, Everest, Pedro The Lion, Starflyer 59, Lassie Foundation, Duraluxe, Map, Charity Empressa, and his own solo work.
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We want to make music that touches them and moves them in > that way, the place where tears come from, for joy and for sorrow. The Weepies' first album Happiness was released at Club Passim on November 29, 2003, and though they were unsigned by a label it sold over 10,000 copies.
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The group recently announced a new album entitled Sirens, which was released in April 2015. In February 2015 they released the theme song, Sirens.Exclusive: Listen to The Weepies New Title Song 'Sirens,' from Their First New Album in Five Years, Billboard.com, February 2, 2015 The full album was officially released on April 28, 2015.
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This song appears on the 2002 album Songs Inspired by Literature (Chapter One), a benefit of the organization Artists for Literacy. "Tell Your Story Walking" was the winner of Artists for Literacy’s 2002 songwriting contest. In addition to The Weepies' albums, (Steve Tannen is the other half of the duo), Talan and Tannen collaborated with singer/actress Mandy Moore on her 2007 album Wild Hope.
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In 2008, along with Jon Darvill, Blanton created Quidplayer, an embeddable "pay what you please" MP3 player and store. In 2010, Blanton performed live on NPR's nationally syndicated program, Mountain Stage, and opened for The Weepies, and Shawn Colvin. In February 2011, Blanton toured with Anaïs Mitchell's Hadestown, playing the role of Head Fate. In November 2011, Blanton opened several shows on Paul Simon's So Beautiful or So What tour.
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In 2008, she released her fourth album on Willy Porter's Weasel Records label. Along with her work as singer, songwriter and guitarist, Zukerman is also an accomplished artist specializing in large format drawings and murals. Her latest studio album was Gas Station Roses. The album featured many guest appearances, including Patty Larkin, Garrison Starr, Meghan Toohey (The Weepies), Adrianne Gonzalez (The Rescues), Todd Sickafoose (Ani Difranco), and Ray Bonneville.
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Justin Townes Earle performing at the SPACE in 2014 SPACE hosts local and national touring acts spanning rock, blues, jazz, folk, singer-songwriters, country and R&B.; Past years' artists include Brandi Carlile, Graham Parker, Nick Lowe, Alabama Shakes, Marshall Crenshaw, David Lindley, The Weepies, Five For Fighting, Billy Bragg, Leon Russell, Terrence Blanchard, Dr. John, Zoë Keating, The English Beat, The Lone Bellow, Martin Sexton, Lucinda Williams and The Lumineers.
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2013 tours included dates with Eleni Mandell, Dawn Landes, Josephine Foster and Scott Matthew. She began 2014 by collaborating once again with Sondre Lerche on the soundtrack for the film The Sleepwalker, which premiered at Sundance Film Festival. She shared the stage with Ed Harcourt, Eleni Mandell, Jesse Winchester, Jimmy Webb, Anaïs Mitchell, The Weepies and Jennifer Kimball among others. It's All True was subsequently independently released by Lewis later that year.
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Brian Wright was part of the 2004–2008 North America/European multi-artist "Hotel Cafe Tour." The Hotel Cafe series of tours included artists such as Imogen Heap, Katy Perry, Mandy Moore, The Weepies, Aqualung and Brett Dennen. In 2011 Wright paired with Jim Bianco for a summer tour in Europe, and in 2014 Brian Wright went on North American tours with the Milk Carton Kids and Joe Purdy. Starting in September 2015 Brian Wright will be joining Tom McRae on a European Tour.
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Record producer Mike Hedges oversaw the album, and they recorded it through the original EMI mixing desk used for Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon. The album was "Record of the Week" on BBC Radio 2, while both singles, "Got None" and "There's One Thing", were A-listed. The album has sold 80,000 copies around the world. He was on the bill at Robert Redford's 'Sundance Film Festival 2006' in Park City, sharing the stage with Rufus Wainwright, Imogen Heap and The Weepies.
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The band played 180 shows in 2006 and toured Europe for the first time, playing at Oxegen, T in the Park, and the Hurricane Festival. In 2007, the band collaborated with Mandy Moore, playing and writing on her new album, Wild Hope. The Weepies recorded their third album, Hideaway, in a small rental house in Topanga, California. Released in April 2008, it sold 14,000 copies in its first week and was the band's first entrance on the Billboard Top 200, charting at number 31.
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They also won an award for Best Acoustic Song (for "Saddest Song") in the Independent Music Awards (2012) and were nominated for Best Album Art Work. Parlor Hawk toured the United States in 2010 and 2011 with neofolk artist Joshua James and rock band Desert Noises. They later played a residency in Singapore in May 2011. Parlor Hawk have supported mainstream and indie acts on select dates including: the Civil Wars, Sharon Van Etten, the Weepies, Train, Priscilla Ahn, Matt Costa, Mindy Gledhill, and many more.
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One particularly influential chapter in From Reverence to Rape discusses the genre of the "woman's film". As Haskell points out, woman's film could be a compensation for "all the dominated universes from which she has been excluded: the gangster film, the Western, the war film, the policier, the rodeo film, the adventure film." A woman's film is also more self-pitying in comparison to the male adventure film which Raymond Durgnat calls the "male weepies." The man's film abstracts the times before settling down, when men were battling nature or the enemy.
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She also worked as production designer at NBCUniversal Creative on The Wizarding World of Harry Potter for the company's Universal Studios Hollywood theme park. Tolman designed the stage set for popular indie pop-folk duo The Weepies for their summer 2011 acoustic tour. She was a contestant in 2012 on Hot Set, a Syfy Channel reality television game show, which pitted two production designers against each other to create a movie set in three days with a budget of $10,000. In 2013, Tolman was assistant production designer on a series of TV ads for Pepsi and L'Oreal featuring Beyoncé.
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This was a trademark of Ross Hunter's remakes of older "weepies"; he employed the same method in Lana Turner's versions of Imitation of Life and Madame X. Of all three screen versions of Back Street, this 1961 production took the most dramatic license with the novel. It is different from both the 1932 and 1941 screen versions in many ways – changing the names of several characters and updating the story to what was then the present day. Good examples of how the plotline was sensationalized in this third version are the attempted suicide and the fatal car crash.
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The tonal shift is fine — the problem is that these weepies often come off less like authentic autobiography than downbeat Nashville role-playing. (The too-sleek production and ponderous, stretched-out tempos don't help.)" In addition, Smith wrote that "Fishbowl reveals less about the star's true interior life than ever." The album received four-out-of-five stars from American Songwriter, Roughstock and Taste of Country. American Songwriter music critic Eric Allen noted that "Fishbowl displays a serious yearning to stretch and dig a little deeper into life’s foibles, as if Chesney is trying to figure them out himself, but in a good way.
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Many bands and artists have cited the Proclaimers as an influence or inspiration, including the Balconies, Barenaked Ladies, Belle and Sebastian, Camera Obscura, the Concretes, Jens Lekman, Sondre Lerche, Lonely Dear, Oppenheimer, Peter Bjorn and John and the Weepies. Recalling feeling an immediate kinship with the Proclaimers after discovering This Is the Story, Steven Page of Barenaked Ladies commented that "[the album] was perfect for us because it was exactly what we were; two guys with acoustic guitars, singing in harmony. It had all the energy of punk rock but just with acoustic guitars and voices". Many acts have performed cover versions of Proclaimers songs, including Imagine Dragons, L7, and Todd Rundgren.
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Cary Brothers is credited for initiating and producing the Hotel Cafe Tour that began in 2005. Bianco has been included in the roster of headlining performers on the tour since its inception. He is one of the few of the Hotel Café artists that has participated in both the US and European legs of the tour. Other notable artists that have participated in this event are: Jessie Baylin, Sara Bareilles, Cary Brothers, Holly Conlan, William Fitzsimmons, Greg Laswell, Imogen Heap, Gary Jules, Tom McRae, Mandy Moore, Ingrid Michaelson, Meiko, Alexi Murdoch, Jay Nash, Katy Perry, Joe Purdy, Joshua Radin, Buddy, KT Tunstall, Butch Walker, The Weepies, Dan Wilson, Brian Wright and Rachael Yamagata.
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Many songs by The Weepies have been licensed for use in films, television shows, and advertisements, including the films Sex and the City, Morning Glory, Adam, and Prom, as well as episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Everwood, One Tree Hill, Scrubs, Pretty Little Liars , The Riches, How I Met Your Mother, Gossip Girl, Kyle XY, Life Unexpected, Up All Night, The Fosters and Sense8. The band was prominently featured during an episode of Dirty Sexy Money with an on-screen performance as an episode subplot. Songs by the band have also appeared in advertising campaigns, include spots for Old Navy and J. C. Penney, as well as a campaign advertisement for Barack Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.
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After graduating Eastern Washington University in Secondary English Education, Camille re-located to Seattle where she taught high school for 5 years – including a stint as the Head Girls' Basketball Coach. After several years of playing music on the side while teaching, Camille transitioned into becoming a full-time musician after an investor coaxed her out of her job with the promise of a lot of money. She has been on the road ever since. Having toured 9 countries, released 4 full- length recordings and several EPs – and graced the stage with artists such as Smashmouth, Metric, Sugarcult, Mark Olson, Shawn Mullins, The Weepies, Mike McCready and many more, she has gained an avid and adoring fan base with her high energy and intensely personal show.
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In 2010, Schwartz released her second album, Life in Letters. In 2011, she had a duet with Aqualung on The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and released the EP, Keep Me. Schwartz has toured with Lilith Fair, with Sarah McLachlan and Sheryl Crow, and opened for The Weepies, Brandi Carlile, The Civil Wars, Agnes Obel, Toad the Wet Sprocket, A Fine Frenzy, Joshua Radin and The Belle Brigade. Her songs have been used in over a dozen television programs, including Grey's Anatomy, Army Wives and The Good Wife. Schwartz wrote the international theme song for NBC's show, Parenthood, and she has written original songs for numerous films, including Twilight, Shrek Forever After, Mother and Child, Post Grad, Monte Carlo, Adam and the Meg Ryan comedy, The Women.
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In 2004, Moore signed with Sire Records after her contract with Epic ended, but she left the label in May 2006 because of creative differences. She signed with The Firm Music, owned by EMI, in July that year, calling her recording contract "especially exciting", and saying that she left Sire because she did not want to "follow the mainstream", but rather have "complete control and freedom" over her music. Moore's fifth studio album Wild Hope was released on June 19, 2007, and Moore collaborated with record producer John Alagía and a number of musicians on it, including Chantal Kreviazuk, Lori McKenna, Rachael Yamagata and The Weepies. Moore stayed alone in a house in Woodstock in Upstate New York while recording the album in late 2006.
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In 2001, Talan and Tannen were individually active as singer-songwriters but mutual fans of each other's music; Tannen played Talan's album "constantly", even singing along in harmony, while Talan in turn was captivated by and had "formed a kind of a relationship" with Tannen's music. After eventually meeting at one of Tannen's shows at Club Passim in Cambridge, Massachusetts, they quickly discovered a deep musical bond and began playing music together. According to Talan, the band's name > ...came about from a few different sources, but one was, you know, those > sort of old movies that were called weepies, where you could basically be > guaranteed that if you needed a good cry, you could go and see one of these > and bring your hanky and have a good time. And we want to be able to provide > that for people.
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Hayward, Susan. "Melodrama and Women's Films" in Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 242 The sense of being trapped leads to obsessions with unobtainable objects or other people, and to inner aggressiveness or "aggressiveness by proxy".Hayward, Susan. "Melodrama and Women's Films" in Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 242 Feminists have noted four categories of themes: those with a female patient, a maternal figure, an "impossible love", and the paranoid melodrama.Hayward, Susan. "Melodrama and Women's Films" in Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 243 Most film melodramas from the 1930s and 1940s, known as "weepies" or "tearjerkers", were adaptations of women's fiction, such as romance novels and historical romances.Hayward, Susan. "Melodrama and Women's Films" in Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 244 Melodramas focus on women's subjectivity and perspective and female desire; however, due to the Hay's Code, this desire could not be explicitly shown on screen from the 1930s to the late 1960s, so female desire is de-eroticized.Hayward, Susan. "Melodrama and Women's Films" in Cinema Studies: The Key Concepts (Third Edition). Routledge, 2006. p. 242-244 During the 1940s the British Gainsborough melodramas were successful with audiences.
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