Click here to read: “Two significant works: Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)” by Kevin Kearney from the World Socialist Web Site on May 22, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Story of Melancholia by Åsa Jansson on the History of Emotions website on The Story of Melancholia on November 28, 2011.
Bully is a very popular highly rated documentary playing in first run theatres around the country now.
25 years ago a documentary of this type would have been shown to select parent teacher groups or other education/school groups, and it would have been shocking. It would not have been shown in movie theaters along with the movie fare of the day because it wouldn’t have been considered marketable. (more…)
Jeff Who Lives at Home is a film with a theme of loss that is advertised as a comedy, criticized as being contrived, and given consistent high ratings because it was seen as inspiring.
Jeff is a conflicted 30 year old man who belies his anxieties with a laid back manner, his bulky body in loose athletic clothing, his face, still so boy like that one easily dismisses the intense absorbed look that makes Jeff seem not quite connected with the real world. He has a soft appearance that is likable, but lacks any suggestion of strength…despite a big muscular body. (more…)
Click here to read the second of a series of articles on the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival by World Socialist Web Site, “Crulic – The Path to Beyond from Romania: The Tragic fate of a decent, humble human being,” written by Kevin Kearney and posted to the site on May 19, 2012.
by Herbert H. Stein
I don’t know how many readers of International Psychoanalysis have seen the French Canadian film, Incendies. For those who have not seen it, I must warn you that this article will include important “spoilers,” so reader beware.
It is an award winning film, highly acclaimed, that brings the viewer to the horror and cruelty of war and of ethnic hatred amidst a story of incredible courage with the inevitable accompaniment of intense trauma. But that is not why I particularly bring Incendies to your attention. I thought that it might be of interest to analysts because it bears striking parallels with Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex (perhaps more properly Oedipus Tyrannus). (more…)
Click Here to Read: Bernardo Bertolucci & Andrea Sabbadini An Additional Lens, Bernardo Bertolucci in conversation with Andrea Sabbadini May 1997 on the Brittish Psychoanalytical Society website.
Click Here to Read: Four Characters in search of an analyst: A Dangerous Method reviewed by Bennett Roth Ph.D.
Click Here to Read: Other Posts on A Dangerous Method on this website.
Click Here to Read: Otto Gross – the Anarchist Psychoanalyst Contributed by: Anonymous on the Info Shop News website on May 2, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Mahler biopic hits right notes By Alan G. Artner in the Chicago Tribune on April 27, 2012.
Click here to Read: .Movie review: A Dangerous Method by Kristal Cooper on the Toronto Examiner website on January 14, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Mentally stimulating film P By: Fr Peter Malone MS on the Catholic Leader website on April 29, 2012.
Michael Fassbender (left) plays Carl Jung in A Dangerous Method and Viggo Mortensen is Sigmund Freud
Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’ Review: Expertly-Crafted by Alex Grunde on the AllMediaNY website on April 14, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Is psychoanalysis a dangerous method? by Clem Bastow on the Daily Life website on March 30, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Fifty Years Ago, Woody Allen Plotted Midnight in Paris in This Stand-up Routine By Kyle Buchanan on The Vulture website on March 14, 2012.
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon was well received in this country, and was particularly appreciated for the balletic athleticism of the characters as they engaged in graceful martial arts movements. Many people particularly spoke of the “flying” as being very appealing. The film leads us gradually into a fantasy of flying, beginning with characters who take great, graceful leaps along rooftops, then launching themselves from the sides of buildings, like wrestlers diving from the ropes, and finally seeming to fly through the air or balance upon thin swaying branches.
The flying, which we see as being graceful and assured, takes a nasty turn at the film’s end when an adolescent girl dives off the side of a mountain, seemingly flying into the mist below. Her stated intention is not suicide. She is trying to gratify a wish promised by legend. “Anyone who dares to jump from the mountain, God will grant his wish.” According to the legend, a boy once jumped from a high mountain to gratify the wish to save his parents, who were ill. The girl, Jen, has just asked her lover, Lo, his wish. His answer, just before she leaps, is “to be back in the desert together again.” She dives off the mountain to return them to an earlier time of pleasure together. (more…)
Click Here to Read: Ralph Fiennes directs Shakespeare’s Coriolanus with an eye to contemporary events By Stefan Steinberg on the World Socialist Website on March 13, 2012.
Click Here to Read: Producer Jeremy Thomas talks about A Dangerous Method By Danii Logue March 12, 2012.
A scene from A Dangerous Method.
Click Here to Read: Honey, I shrunk the shrinks: Why are movies about therapy so loaded with clichés? by Ryan Gilbey on the New Stateman website on March 08, 2012.
Click Here to Read: The Tao of Hoffman By Giles Foden in the New York Tims on March 2, 2012.
Second act In the HBO series ‘‘Luck,’’ Dustin Hoffman plays a gambler recently released from prison
Dustin Hoffman