The Young One

"...of Bunuel's distinct blend of social realism and shameless melodrama. The first word spoken in the film comes from..."

Sept. 17, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Last Butterfly

"...Czech/English co-production is certainly several notches above Lewis's surreal melodrama, but the film never really gets where it so..."

Aug. 13, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Story of Qiu Ju

"...in contemporary times and uses comedy rather than family melodrama for his narrative structure, Qui Ju will also appear..."

July 23, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Married to It

"...Shepherd and Ron Silver. The failures of this awkward melodrama are so obvious -- you stop little short of..."

April 2, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Rich in Love

"...Lucille doesn't have the depth to carry this Southern melodrama. She's a mere shadow of similar characters like Frankie..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indochine

"...joins this nostalgic roster of films as a sweeping, melodramatic epic that captures -- mostly from the Eurocentric perspective..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Tous les Matins lu Monde

"...detail. Though the movie has its share of baroque melodrama, its strengths lie more in its minutiae -- in..."

March 5, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

A Few Good Men

Melodrama doesn't come more butch than this, and the performances reflect that intensity, although Aaron Sorkin's moral predicaments are given full scrutiny.

"...subplot. A Few Good Men is a decidedly butch melodrama and the performances reflect that intensity. Nicholson, most notably,..."

Dec. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fresh

"...subtle, powerful logic, slowly building from a tense, Brooklyn melodrama to a fever-pitched battle of wits where checkmate means..."

Sept. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lovers

"...reminiscent of Hitchcock meets film noir by way of melodrama. Based on a real-life incident involving seduction, betrayal and..."

Aug. 28, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Raise the Red Lantern

Zhang's film is a biting examination of sexual politics, mandarin-style. Also stunningly gorgeous to look at, this melodrama transcends all borders and eras to speak to the ages.

"...is the most exciting thing to happen to film melodrama since German emigre Douglas Sirk came to Hollywood and..."

June 5, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

K2: The Ultimate High

"...may be the wrong one to review this wretched melodrama because I see nothing intrinsically heroic about a group..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Louis Black

The Babe

"...Peter Donat. I've never been a big fan of melodramas, and this movie is almost pure melodrama. I am..."

April 24, 1992 Movie Review by Nick Barbaro

Charlotte Gray

"...portion of the population who like their pleasures guilty, melodrama can be a glorious thing: war, valor, intrigue, star-cross'd..."

Jan. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Going Over the Top and Other Outrageous Behaviors: Being melodramatic – on purpose

Karen Hastings, a specialist in melodrama and vaudeville, is offering locals a master class in acting the old-fashioned way

"...from Topeka, Kan., Hastings specializes in old-style theatre like melodrama and vaudeville. She recently arrived in Round Rock to..."

Aug. 31, 2007 Arts Feature by Barry Pineo

Realms of Inspiration

Erik Hokkanen, Finnish and fiddling in Austin

"...his turf. Yet one track on his latest release, Melodrama Sweetheart, gives it all away: "Viinijarvi Valssi" is the..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Venus Beauty Institute

"...depending on who you talk to) for their unabashedly melodramatic sentiments. Here, the melodrama revolves around Angèle (Baye), a..."

Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

A Thousand and One

The struggles of one Harlem family against the backdrop of a changing NYC

"...Taylor, A Thousand and One deftly crafts a family melodrama that highlights the necessity of defying systems that fail..."

March 31, 2023 Movie Review by Alejandra Martinez

The Son

The Father director crashes with this mental health drama

"...of them turns into a caustic affair of emotional melodrama, all due to Peter being unable to truly understand..."

Jan. 20, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Violent Heart

Socially conscious murder mystery romance is more schlock than melodrama

"...Good melodrama has a whiff of prurience with a shimmer of..."

Feb. 19, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Girl Cut in Two

French master Claude Chabrol's latest film is the tale of the downfall of a cheery, open-faced weathergirl in Lyons who falls in love with two different men.

"...speaks of Chabrol’s “resort to murder rather than life, melodrama rather than the everyday.” Now an elder statesman of..."

Dec. 12, 2008 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Shadowboxer

Not reviewed at press time. Stars Çuba Gooding Jr. and Helen Mirren as passionate yet unlikely lovers, as well as assassins and stepmother and stepson. And if that's not enough drama, one of them also has a fatal disease.

"...the first 10 minutes of writer/director Lee Daniels’ assassin melodrama, a crime boss violates a man with a pool..."

Aug. 4, 2006 Movie Review by Brian Clark

Erik Hokkanen Reviewed

"...Melodrama SweetheartErik Hokkanen &..."

Dec. 2, 2005 Music Feature by David Lynch

Maddin Comes Alive

'Cowards Bend the Knee': the autobiography of an original in all senses

"...producing three back-to-back productions and teaching a class on melodrama at the University of Toronto...."

Oct. 1, 2004 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

All That Heaven Allows

"...chaste widow. Then, add to all this highly charged melodrama master Douglas Sirk'slavishly saturated color schemes and loaded compositions,..."

July 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Film Fast, Die Young

"...formulas. He pissed off gays by being too classically melodramatic and angered the establishment by being too avant-garde and..."

Sept. 4, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson

Breaking the Waves

"...film as an experiment, his stab at an old-fashioned melodrama. For once, the famously arrogant von Trier is too..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

From the Ridiculous to the Sublime

How do you take Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist and, in less than a month, condense it into a 100-minute one-man play, with the actor playing 20 characters from the novel plus a New York City drag queen? Everett Quinton and Eureka, veterans of the fabled Ridiculous Theatre Company and creators of Twisted Olivia, explain how they did it.

"...Jungle, and the 1984 premiere of Ludlam's two-actor, quick-change melodrama spoof, The Mystery of Irma Vep, co-starring opposite the..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Page Two

Our Top 10s give you another chance to laugh, and rail, at us; Republican dominance and a state budget crisis bode ill for government services, and for Austin; we bid a fond farewell to "Dancing About Architecture" and chart a new course, a bit.

"...An overly faithful homage to Douglas Sirk, the great melodrama director of the Fifties (one whose work I deeply..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Column by Louis Black

SXSW Film Review: Oddity

A wickedly fun blend of melodrama and horror

"...loss, Oddity is the rare foray into horror and melodrama. There’s an element of exaggeration to everything in the..."

March 9, 2024 Screens Post by Matthew Monagle

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