Category: Film

“Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri” and One Emotional Ride
By Categories: Film

by Herbert H. Stein

 

We see a man and woman driving along a quiet country road. She, the older of the two,
is driving and she starts the conversation.
“Hey, Dixon?”
“Yeah?”
“I need to tell you something.”
There is a pause, then she continues.
“It was me who burned down the police station.”
“Well, who the hell else would it have been?”
They drive some more and she speaks again.
“Dixon?”
“Yep?”
“You sure about this?”
“About killing this guy?”
He waits a few moments and continues,
“Not really. You?”
“Not really.”
They drive some more and she says, “I guess we can decide along the way.”
He nods, she smiles, they keep driving …

And then the screen goes black and we see the closing credits.

In that moment in which I realized I was no longer living vicariously in the world of the
film, as I came back to my own world, sitting in a now dark movie theater, I had the thought that I had seen a very unusual film, perhaps unique. Continue reading “Three Billboards Outside of Ebbing Missouri” and One Emotional Ride

Screening & Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her with William Fried, PhD at NYPSI
By Categories: EVENTS, Film, Psychoanalysis

Brill Library Film Series Screening & Discussion of Talk to Her with William Fried, PhD
Screening & Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her William Fried, PhD
Wednesday, April 25, 2018, 7:00 – 10:00 pm, The Marianne and Nicholas Young Auditorium, 247 East 82nd Street, NYC

From Pedro Almodóvar, the director of the Academy-Award(r) winning All About My Mother (Best Foreign Language Film, 2000), TALK TO HER is the surprising, altogether original and quietly moving story of the spoken and unspoken bonds that unite the lives and loves of two couples. Two men (Benigno and Marco) almost meet while watching a dance performance, but their lives are irrevocably entwined by fate. They meet later at a private clinic where Benigno is the caregiver for Alicia, a beautiful dance student who lies in a coma. Marco is there to visit his girlfriend, Lydia, a famous matador, also rendered motionless. As the men keep vigil over the women they love, the story unfolds in flashback and flashforward as the lives of the four are further entwined and their relationships move toward a surprising conclusion.

In his discussion, Dr. Fried will explore Talk to Her as representing the convolutions of desire by focusing on relations in which one of the two partners is comatose. This situation enables the mechanisms of projection and introjection to become the sole relational vehicles. Continue reading Screening & Discussion of Pedro Almodóvar’s Talk to Her with William Fried, PhD at NYPSI

A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse
By Categories: Film

Click Here to Read:  A Film Tries to Make a Pioneering Feminist Intellectual More Than Just a Muse: Lou Andreas-Salomé — a novelist, essayist, and psychoanalyst who won the hearts of Freud, Nietzsche, and Rilke — led an almost infinitely varied life by Angelica Frey on the HyperAllergic website on April 15, 2018.

Click Here to Read:  “Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to Be Free” Offers an Engaging Look at a Bold, Feminist Figure by Abbey Bender in the Village Voice April 17, 2018.

Click Here to Read: Lou Andreas-Salomé vs. The Patriarchy by Michael Hirsch on the Indypendent website on April 20. 2018