I have a friend who is sensitive, and another who is very, very sensitive. I think that's the simplest parallel that explains the difference between melodrama and cinematic drama. Drama is a very ...

NEW YORK — There’s an awkwardness in the title — “Emotion Pictures: International Melodrama” — given to the sprawling, 62-film festival that’s running at the Film Society of Lincoln Center through Jan ...

The human imagination is a boundless frontier where grand exploration can occur, and in children, this exploration is particularly vibrant. It is this fearless imagination that allows children to ...

The first reactions for Strange Way of Life, Pedro Almodóvar's queer Western starring Pedro Pascal and Ethan Hawke, are here. The short film, which premiered this week at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival ...

There is hardly a false note in " May December, " an audaciously self-aware, mischievously funny and emotionally complex drama that defies simple categorization. Filmmaker Todd Haynes, working from a ...

We’re currently in the stretch of the cinematic schedule that we call awards season — several of the past year’s buzziest films are making their final push for all the shiny statues. Many of the most ...

Taken in totality, Nepali mainstream cinema concerns itself with a specific ideological inclination, a tendency towards ‘melodramatic realism’. Disguised as social realism, this is cinema of ...

[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was originally published in indieWIRE on November 1, 2002. Focus Features’ “Far from Heaven” is currenly in theaters.] “I think the worry is you get older, and you stop ...