Now, Goei is busy developing five film scripts: two comedies set in Manhattan, a contemporary Singapore melodrama, a futuristic Asian action adventure and a ghost story set in Japan.
The melodrama opens on a lighthearted note, but Ms. Serreau leaps in with fairly ham-fisted farce.
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His hand slips only toward the end, where the sense of melodrama, rising like a flood, brims over into the ludicrous.
Just as an ambitious teen show features interesting parents, a truly effective melodrama gives us villains with sad, complicated hearts.
It includes a rarely heard melodrama by Ullmann, written during his internment.
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The film archive described the movie as "a wild, atmospheric melodrama".
Frustrated that his cast couldn't fit the dialogue into a single shot, Mr. Eastwood took a cue from Howard Hawks's fast-talking screwball comedy to punch up a brooding Boston-set crime melodrama.
And the movie hits a bad bump when it weds the celebration of a free spirit to anti-sexist melodrama.
As this extravagant, wickedly ironic 1928 melodrama shows, Erich von Stroheim was not only a supreme (if typecast) actor but one of the greatest silent-era directors.
You feel yourself gripped by a beautiful machine, engineered for the finest melodrama.
Because, and forgive the melodrama of this, we feel that the world is in a dire state.
Horror posters have a strong cult following, and are often irresistible in their melodrama.
All the over-the-top action and melodrama is so much more fun when you view the whole thing as a Spaghetti Western, or a Dirty Harry movie.
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Though Pham sometimes veers dangerously into melodrama (there's another moment when he breaks down upon spying a beggar girl who reminds him of a past love), the sentiment is not misplaced.
Even within the context of 'Battlestar, ' there was such a wild panoply of styles and emotions -- action, tragedy, melodrama, comedy, philosophy, even music -- all of which I watched him nail.
Mixing social messages with melodrama requires skill from the writers, says Acosta-Alzuru, who has studied telenovelas for over a decade.
In this raw and vehement melodrama from 1980, Dennis Hopper, as director, gives himself the lead role of Don, a truck driver who is about to be released from prison, where he served time after drunkenly smashing his rig into a school bus.
Sharon Van Etten found the sense of Teutonic melodrama in "Falconer, " and Mr. Cale and his band, augmented for some songs by a string quartet, showed repeatedly how he and Nico anticipated the marriage of rock and electronic instrumentation.
Finding rhapsodic melodrama in high art, Akerman pulls Mozart out of the opera house and into the bedroom for an arch a-cappella duet for separated lovers.
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