Secrets of the Soul

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 9, 2021March 9, 2021 Film

Click Here to View: SECRETS OF A SOUL (1926). A psychoanalytic film by G. W. Pabst on YouTube.

André Aciman’s Quiet Bliss

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Books, Film, Literature

Click Here to Read: André Aciman’s Quiet Bliss: A brilliant and charming new collection of essays, ‘Homo Irrealis,’ starts in Egypt, travels to Rome, and ends on the other side of an Eric Rohmer film, by way of Billy Wilder, Fernando Pessoa, and W.G. Sebald
by David Mikics on the Tablet Website on March 4, 2021.

Frederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’

By Tamar SchwartzFebruary 10, 2021February 10, 2021 Film

Click Here to Read: Frederick Wiseman’s ‘City Hall’: Some institutions insist on their own particularity and can reveal deeper truths, while others succumb to cruelty and inertia. With a special shout-out to the ‘Paris Review.’ BY Sean Cooper on the Tablet website on January 26, 2021.

The Esthers: Top 10 Jewish Films of 2020

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Film

Click Here to Read: The Esthers: Top 10 Jewish Films of 2020: This year, as cinemas shut down, Tablet’s critic found streaming lockdown escapist gems in clever counterhistories, rich and inventive documentaries, and rediscovered classics of Yiddish cinema. And Roy Cohn BY J. Hoberman on the Tablet website on December 18, 2020.

A Face in the Crowd

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 18, 2020December 18, 2020 Film

Click Here to Read: A Face in the Crowd: 6 “Mistakes” A Woman Makes Falling for A Narcissistic Bad Boy & Getting Wise by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on December 16, 2020.

What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of?

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 27, 2020November 27, 2020 Film, Literature, Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: What Was Virginia Woolf Afraid Of? TV Review by Richard Maguire on the The Reviews Hub – London website on November 25, 2020.
Photograph of Virginia Woolf with hand on face wearing a fur stole. Image: Photographer Unknown Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

Get Out: Trauma, #Never Again, And “Getting Out”

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 5, 2020November 5, 2020 Film

Click Here to Read: Trauma, #Never Again, And “Getting Out” by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen on her Characters on the Couch blog on February 26, 2018.