The scene plays out one third of the way into Martin Scorsese’s new film, The Irishman, named for Frank’s mob world sobriquet, and replays in its final shot, as Frank, old, decrepit and utterly, hopelessly alone, abandoned by his family and bereft of his gangster friends through the passage of time, sits on his nursing home bed. He doesn’t know his daughter’s eyes are on him she’s constitutionally quiet, and remains so throughout most of their interaction as adults. In goes the snubnose revolver, the ruthless tool of Frank’s trade. In go trousers and shirts, each neatly tucked and folded against the luggage’s interior. Peggy Sheeran (Lucy Gallina) watches her father, Frank (Robert De Niro), through a door left ajar as he packs his suitcase for a work trip. Stars: Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci, Jesse Plemons, Anna Paquin Lady Bird isn’t as high-concept as many of Sondheim’s works, but there’s a piercing truthfulness to the film, and arguably Gerwig’s work in general, that makes its anxieties and tenderness reverberate in the viewer’s heart with equal frequency. Lovett’s cause for pause in telling Sweeney her real motives. Few filmmakers are able to capture the same kind of ambiguity and mixed feelings that involve the refusal to make up one’s mind: look to 35-year-old Bobby impulsively wanting to marry a friend, but never committing to any of his girlfriends, in Company the “hemming and hawing” of Cinderella on the, ahem, steps of the palace or Mrs. What a perfect match: Stephen Sondheim and Greta Gerwig. A few moments before, while in a car with her mother, she lays her head on the window wistfully and says with a sigh, “I wish I could just live through something.” Stuck in Sacramento, where she thinks there’s nothing to be offered her while paying acute attention to everything her home does have to offer, Lady Bird-and the film, written and directed by Greta Gerwig, that shares her name-has ambivalence running through her veins. Stars: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Tracy Letts, Lucas Hedges, Beanie Feldstein, Timothee Chalametīefore Christine “Lady Bird” McPherson (Saoirse Ronan)-Lady Bird is her given name, as in “ gave it to self”-auditions for the school musical, she watches a young man belting the final notes to “Being Alive” from Stephen Sondheim’s Company. So we’ve let the streaming service define the term here, pulling from movies it classifies as “dramas” and adding a few that clearly should have been there.
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How funny can a movie be and still be “serious”? How much tension must be internal or inter-personal-can a dramatic movies still have a bunch of explosions? Drama is a key ingredient in all movies, but when you’re in the mood for a dramatic movie, we think we know what you’re looking for. It doesn’t help that drama is the broadest of genres, the most difficult to define: Basically anything that doesn’t fall into comedy, horror, action/adventure or sci-fi gets lumped into the catch-all, and even then there’s more than plenty of overlap.
Netflix lists nearly 1,500 movies in the drama category not all of them are exactly worth checking out.
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