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Issue 108: Melodrama

June 2022

Episode #13: I Am Love (2009)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
Issue 108: MelodramaPodcast
This month on the podcast, we discuss Luca Guadagnino’s 2009 melodrama I Am Love with author, critic, and Wesleyan film professor Lisa Dombrowski.
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“How Would You Describe Our Bonds?”

Julia Sirmons·
Issue 108: Melodrama
In cinema, chosen family melodramas are sprawling, surprising, and passionate films, playing with the traditional forms to reflect bonds that are often in flux and difficult to describe.
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Divine Intervention

Spencer Williams·
Issue 108: Melodrama
In Polyester, John Waters skewers the melodrama’s achy-breaky conventions by ramping them up to 11.
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Whatever It Takes

Isabel Cole·
Issue 108: Melodrama
On Degrassi, no one is beautiful and everything hurts. If I had to sum up high school in a sentence, I couldn’t do much better than that.
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What Is That, Me?: Fear of Fear

Rafaela Bassili·
Issue 108: Melodrama
In Fassbinder's Fear of Fear, a housewife’s desperation is as universal a story as you can get—the story of the impossible reconciliation between looking after and being seen.  
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The Power of Art (To Make Me Weep)

Griff Maloney·
Issue 108: Melodrama
Art is the high drama and the low drama, and often, as Schama shows us, it’s the reflection of the artists’ own life, their fear, pain, joy, and frustrations, their family relationships, loves, and losses.
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Most Wonderful

Nathaniel Missildine·
Issue 108: Melodrama
L.A. Story is romantic, hopelessly. Our four lovestruck main characters fall in and out of their spells. The tone gets mushy. The freeway sign is embraced. The paradise could be believed.
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Melodrama and The Happiness of the Katakuris

Mark Dzula·
Issue 108: Melodrama
The Happiness of the Katakuris shimmers with an almost Muppet-level cheer and earnestness, even as cadavers pile up and zombies skulk.
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Melody and Melodrama

Emma Fergusson·
Issue 108: Melodrama
Brief Encounter is structured as a wistful confession told by a sensible person attempting to grapple with heartache in the most sensible way possible.
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