| With epic melodramas such as this one, the main character always makes one fatal mistake. |
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| And the result was a truly Hollywood ending to one of the most extraordinary political melodramas in American history. |
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| His early works included songs, piano sonatas, and choral pieces, but from 1826 to 1833 he wrote music for burlesques, farces, and melodramas. |
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| She did melodramas, musicals, romantic comedies, westerns, and horror films. |
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| The vast majority were period pieces, costume melodramas, comedies, and films of a nonpolitical nature. |
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| Adding drama to the downtown scene are the melodramas and vaudeville revues presented at the Gaslighter Theater. |
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| This melodrama, and I love melodramas, is really beautifully performed, it's heartfelt and tense and romantic. |
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| Hepworth produced on average three films a week, ranging from melodramas and slapstick comedies to scenics and travel films. |
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| Fans of Douglas Sirk melodramas and other '50s potboilers are the best candidates for this kind of slick, earnestly soapy entertainment. |
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| Tragedies, dramas and melodramas tend to engage the audience on a more emotional level. |
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| He wrote songs, operas, and operettas, pantomimes, melodramas, and in 1823, a History of Music. |
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| He was a melodramatist, infusing all those silly melodramas with style, with signs and meanings. |
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| By evoking scenes from old Hollywood melodramas and thrillers, the images conveyed vague feelings of tension and threat. |
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| As a young woman I was a great fan of the caution-to-the-winds romantic gesture, mostly found in books and weepy melodramas. |
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| Cineuropa: How did this project, which seems like a tribute to Sirk's melodramas, come about? |
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| Films are a popular form of entertainment, and several Greek filmmakers and production companies have produced a body of melodramas, comedies, musicals, and art films. |
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| Vivacious melodramas did not, however, hold exclusive possession of the stage. |
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| Time was when melodramas largely involved people who were trapped in an emotional web of complicated family relations. |
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| Sometimes the stories it tells are run-of-the-mill melodramas that could have happened anywhere. |
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| This is very much a municipal melodrama. That distinguishes it from most political melodramas, where the milieu is far more presidential. |
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| The plays cover the range from Shakespeare and Scott to fairy tales, pantomines, and melodramas. |
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| Beethoven's music-in the melodramas but also generally-demanded a kind of utterance that would be forceful and direct. |
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| I believe young filmmakers had enough of these kinds of melodramas and overdosed on stage acting. |
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| The Gaiety stuck to its well-tried popular repertory of melodramas, comedies, and musicals, though both theatres scheduled touring opera companies throughout the year. |
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| At the Lido we will also present the book Mélo Ritrovato, dedicated to my film and film melodramas in general. |
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| Scotland was a popular setting for melodramas in the early 19th century after Sir Walter Scott, a prolific novelist and poet, travelled there. |
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| Filmmakers gave people what they liked and what normally came from the theatre and literature, i.e., melodramas, comedies and popular operettas. |
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| It's your most novelistic film yet and, at the same time, it evokes technicolour melodramas. |
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| Why are melodramas like The Notebook derided for being unrealistic, while Godzilla gets lauded as the best of the year? |
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| Like soap operas and melodramas, Magnolia is characterized by excess. |
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| Greta Garbo played tragic lovers, exotic temptresses and steely heroines, anchoring many mediocre melodramas and haughty period pieces like a pro. |
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| Yet the strongest melodramas are those without apparent villains, where characters end up hurting each other unwittingly, just by pursing their desires. |
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| The Troupe franco-canadienne, a groupe of eight comedians that included Blanche de la Sablonnière and Louis Labelle, often performed melodramas and comedies at this new venue. |
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| One of two movies Stanwyck made for the director Douglas Sirk, both black and white, both sudsy melodramas on the surface, and, just beneath, devastating critiques of societal smugness and conformity. |
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| He also attended musical events, including oratorios, operas, and melodramas. |
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| Bodying forth the anxieties of a turbulent decade, the spectres in 1820s melodramas signify allusively rather than referentially. |
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| Comic films, serials, melodramas, historical movies: the aim was to try to make money offering the formulas which were bringing in money at the box-office for films from other countries. |
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| Magna Carta, the Tower Bridge and Alfred Hitchcock, the greatest director of screen melodramas in the world. |
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| At the end of the 17th century, the Arcadians began a movement to restore simplicity and classical restraint to poetry, as in Metastasio's heroic melodramas. |
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