Word: melodrama
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...requires a working knowledge of market terminology. Some of his stories are long digressions from the sweep of his history. Never mind. He is about the only writer around who combines a thorough knowledge of finance with the ability to perceive behind the dance of numbers "high, pure, moral melodrama on the themes of possession, domination and belonging...
Investors may be better served that way, the author admits, but such a setup will be too impersonal to nurture the moral melodrama that Brooks loves. He probably need not worry, though. Greed, ambition and willful refusal to face reality are constants, quite capable of being programmed into computers (as shareholders of Equity Funding have discovered). Burned investors of, say, 1983 will still need a Brooks to tell them how it was done...
...closed bedroom door. As in the play, we do not see Nora change, but when Fonda comes out again to confront Torvald and prepare to leave, the viewer feels he can calibrate the painful inches by which the decision has been reached. Her fire and intelligence cause all the melodrama in the moment to fall aside and reveal a hard truth...
...afternoon. This one, about the early years of World War II in Bengal and the beginnings of the 1943 famine, shows the grace and calm authority of his best work, as well as his ability to shape great themes into h man drama without reducing them. Ray flirts with melodrama here, but Distant Thunder gathers a quiet force that makes most objections incidental. Better even than its treatment of the reality of poverty is the way Ray handles the subtle shifts it causes in his two main characters, a husband and wife of the Brahman caste. Their gradual and shocked...
...film reality to lived reality. The term can be taken to stand for cinema itself: the magic, dreamy darkness brought to us by Hollywood. Day for Night is dedicated to the Gish sisters, pioneers of the star system, and the film being made within the film is a cheap melodrama. There are quarrels and affairs among the actors, and nostalgic recounting of old ways of film-making. There are many homages to figures from the whole history of film: The Citizen Kane Book left on a shelf, the sign for "the Rue Jean Vigo"--a real place, Truffaut claims...