Word: melodramas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Five Easy Pieces, Bob Rafelson's previous film, was a good, sharply observed melodrama. The King of Marvin Gardens shows the same restrained, rhythmic editing and unemphatic camera movement, the same scrupulous care for dramatic nuance. Marvin Gardens may not be as successful as Five Easy Pieces; yet in many ways it is more interesting and certainly more daring -the work of a talented director trying to extend himself...
...freshest-elements to their most complex conclusions throughout his unheralded career. From Having a Wild Weekend to Point Blank to Hell in the Pacific to Leo the Last he has made poignant romance from rock group fantasy, existential comedy gangster shoot-em-up, psychological examination from World War II melodrama, revolutionary parable from absurdist fantasy. His record is not consistently successful. But each of his films is interesting, and Deliverance is his most accomplished film...
Richard Burton, once an actor, now performs mainly as a buffoon. In his latest exercise in melodrama, he even permits himself to be outfitted in a sort of jester's motley: outrageous mustard-colored blazer and lavender-trimmed evening clothes. His chin whiskers seem to have been dipped in a vat of Lady Clairol, so his blue beard is colored like a pair of muddy policeman's pants. All that is needed to complete the costume is cap and bells...
...help a feckless law partner who is in financial trouble, and because there seems no reason not to, Lowder accepts a bribe from a Mafia-connected moneyman whose activities are under investigation. The novel follows the muscular workings of the hero's conscience, which, after much interior melodrama, sees him through...
...care or craft as the 90-minute features cranked out for television. They portray all black men as diddy-boppers or street-corner hustlers, all white men as drooling, craven criminals, and women of any complexion as whimpering sex machines. They lack the energy and dignity of good action melodrama. Super Fly and movies like it demean the audiences they are made...