First Francois Ozon film, and it’s kind of a doozy. Based on a play by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, it’s neatly divided into four acts, and it contains a bit of…
When reading and thinking about melodrama in film, there’s no better place to go than to Douglas Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows. This is the archetype of the “mode” at…
Rainer Werner Fassbinder, one of the few real badasses of cinema, created in Ali: Fear Eats The Soul an utterly beautiful and (forgive the term) humanistic melodrama that draws from…
