Who Killed Teddy Bear? A Sordid Masterpiece
An uncomfortable mix of art and sleaze that is designed to leave the viewer feeling as uncomfortable as possible.
Tag: melodrama
The Magnificent Melodrama Of Vittorio de Sica’s Sunflower
Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni star in an epic tale of love and obsession.
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Raindance 2022: Marcel!
Jasmine Trinca’s tale of narcissism, mother and daughter bonding and a road trip gone bad is not exactly fun but is nevertheless oddly rewarding.
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Kateno Shindo’s Naked Island
The director of Onibaba and Kuroneko explores a bleak tale of isolation and quiet despair.
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Ray Charles, Movie Star: The Strange Tale Of Ballad In Blue
A stiff-lipped melodrama in which the famed musician becomes chummy with a small boy – it was a more innocent time in 1965.
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Science Fiction Cinema Grows Up: Fritz Lang’s Woman In The Moon
The pioneering and influential space travel silent classic is a mixed bag of melodrama and innovation.
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Flights Into Danger: The Many Adaptations Of The Story That Became Airplane!
Everybody knows that Airplane! was based on a pioneering 1957 disaster movie – but it’s far from being the only other version of that story.
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Noirvember: Home At Seven
Continuing our crime film month with a look at a stilted but fascinating theatrical mystery that was Ralph Richardson’s sole directorial effort.
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Halloween Hammer: Rasputin The Mad Monk
Continuing our look at Hammer Films with their curious hybrid of historical biopic and gothic horror from 1966.
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Classic Albums Revisited: Ghost’s Infestissumam
The Swedish band’s irresistible collision of Satanic Metal and kitsch pop reaches the peak of perfection.
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The Other Justine – A High Camp Cinematic Car Crash
The George Cukor and Joseph Strick directed all-star melodrama is a kitsch disaster that fans of the accidentally ludicrous may find very much to their taste.
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Boris Karloff’s ‘Mad Doctor’ Cycle: An Appreciation
Looking back at the short series of underrated and provocative films that Boris Karloff made for Columbia Pictures at the start of the 1940s.
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