A Woman Like Eve/The Debut/The Cool Lakes of Death
ALL THREE DIRECTED BY NOUCHKA VAN BRAKEL
Who is Nouchka van Brakel, the strikingly feminist Dutch ...
A Pair of Black-and-White Movies By the Master of Melodrama Douglas Sirk Recently Released on Blu-Ray.
DIRECTED BY DOUGLAS SIRK
BLU-RAY STREET DATE 8/25/...
Rock Hudson, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone Soar in Douglas Sirk Barnstorming Melodrama.
DIRECTED BY DOUGLAS SIRK/1957
BLU-RAY STREET DATE: MARCH 26, 20...
STREET DATE: APRIL 23, 2019/KINO LORBER
Underground Brings Romance to the Surface
Note: My ordinary policy on films like this is that I'm reviewing films...
Natalie Wood and Gene Kelly Star in Modernist Melodramatic Ramble
DIRECTED BY IRVING RAPPER/1958
STREET DATE: MAY 9, 2017/KINO LORBER STUDIO CLASSICS
Wil...
May Jia Zhangke's Glorious Melodrama Never Depart
DIRECTED BY JIA ZHANGKE/CHINESE, MANDARIN, CANTONESE, ENGLISH/2016 (U.S. release)
STREET DATE: July 12, 20...
Jake Gyllenhaal And Company Pack A Melodramatic Punch
DIRECTED BY ANTIONE FUQUA/2015
The new boxing film Southpaw is a very good boxing melodrama that think...
Kitsch Artist Biopic Is No Masterpiece
DIRECTED BY TIM BURTON/2014
You think you know a guy… For the whole of his directorial career, former animator Tim B...
Real Men Bake Pies in Melodramatic Throwback
DIRECTED BY JASON REITMAN/2013
Kate Winslet is a Real Woman. And Josh Brolin is a Real Man. And yet, they canno...
