Learning to Let Go: Every End Has a Start in What Dreams May Come
When I first saw Vincent Ward’s What Dreams May Come (1998), I was living in California and my...
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Tag: Melodrama
Sound and Fury: Impotent Violence in Robert Aldrich’s The Big Knife (1955)
While even most casual film noir fans seem to be acquainted with Robert Aldrich’s nihilistic...
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Crime and Melodrama in the 1920s: Varieté (1925) and Beggars of Life (1928)
While Ewald André Dupont’s Varieté (Variety, 1925) and William A. Wellman’s Beggars of Life (1928)...
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Barbarous Desire: The Sheik (1921) and The Son of the Sheik (1926)
“Her exultant dream of freedom ended—a helpless captive in the desert wastes.” —The Sheik The...
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From Violent Musical to Whimsical Melodrama: Takashi Miike’s The Happiness of the Katakuris
Though ridiculously prolific director Takashi Miike is most often remembered for his gory horror...
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Gothic Film in the ‘40s: Doomed Romance and Murderous Melodrama
In many respects, the ‘40s were a strange time for horror films. With a few notable exceptions,...
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An Andrzej Zuławski Retrospective: La fidélité
Over the last four months, I’ve done what I think might be an internet first: a complete...
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The Mausoleum of All Hope and Desire: Southern Gothic Cinema, Part One
In the December 1, 1940 issue of Vogue, published just as the United States teetered on the brink...
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An Andrzej Żuławski Retrospective: L’important c’est d’aimer
After the reception of The Devil (1972) drove director Andrzej Zuławski out of Poland and into...
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Violent Saturday (US Blu-ray review)
[toggle title=”Specs” state=”close” ] Details Director: Richard Fleischer...
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Busted Guts: Cracking Open Comedy Cinema
