Word: melodrama
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...moviegoers who are not shocked, titillated, disgusted, fascinated, delighted or angered by this early scene in Bernardo Bertolucci's new movie, Last Tango in Paris, should be patient. There is more to come. Much more. Bertolucci, whose political melodrama The Conformist was one of the most highly praised foreign films of 1971, has marshaled his opulent visual style to tell a stark story of sex as a be-all and end-all. For boldness and brutality, the intimate scenes are unprecedented in feature films. Frontal nudity, four-letter words, masturbation, even sodomy-Bertolucci dwells uncompromisingly on them all with...
...Rick's smoky Club:Americain where Claude Rains wins at roulete, where Bergnan's arrival earns Sam's state-Peter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot. Conard Veidt, Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michaell Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...plays a little something of his own--Rick's smoky Club American where Clause Rains wins at roulette, where Crande arrival earns Sam's state--Petter Lorre's escape, Sydney Greenstreet and the Blue Parrot, Conrad Veidt. Bogart and Bergman and a lighthouse. It's the best melodrama, with unforgettable mood and many great characterizations. Director Michael Curtiz integrated all the sentiment, all the style, to make a movie to be seen a dozen times...
...Sunlight Dialogues, by contrast, is an enormous trick circus trunk out of which the author keeps taking new literary treasures as if they were so many fake bananas. A philosophical disquisition upon religion and justice? Yes. A compassionate portrait of America in the uneasy '60s? Yes. A Faulknerian melodrama complete with intricate violence, small-town dynastic decay and a cast of dozens? Yes, indeed...
Then, fingers poised over the keys, came a cry: "My God, I can't play the piano any more." That remark was pure melodrama. After listening to Bernstein's brief run-through, the students tried again, and now they brought the piece to life. Satisfied, the visiting professor dropped back to his seat on the floor, extracted a cigarette from a leather case, and listened to a student wind quintet attack Irving Fine's Partita. Halfway through the first movement, Bernstein leaped to his feet again. "Tune up!" he cried. "My God, tune up!" While the musicians...