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Category: Movies
The 10 best screen psychoanalysts
Click Here to Read: The 10 best screen psychoanalysts: From Hannibal Lecter to Frasier Crane, psychoanalyst Anouchka Grose chooses her 10 favourite celluloid shrinks by Anouchka Grose on the Guardian website on June 12, 2010.
Lorraine Bracco as Dr Melfi with James Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano in The Sopranos. Photograph: Everett Collection/Rex Feature
Class Divide: A close-up look at gentrification, inequality in New York City
Colonia: Under Pinochet, a disposal center for enemies of the state
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice—Doom and gloom, with capes
Slavery in Recent American Films: “Lincoln”
Orchestra of Exiles
“Star Wars VII”: Nostalgia and Repetition A Long Time Ago …
by Herbert H. Stein
Let’s talk about the new Star Wars movie. After all, for a while everyone else was.
In a now mildly famous controversy, the creator of Star Wars, George Lucas, told Charlie Rose “They wanted to do a retro movie. I don’t like that. Every movie I work very hard to make them completely different, with different plan- ets, with different spaceships, make it new.” In a later TV interview on CBS, he apologized, saying, “The issue was ultimately, they looked at the stories and they said, ‘We want to make something for the fans.’ People don’t actually realize it’s actually a soap opera and it’s all about family problems-it’s not about space- ships. So they decided they didn’t want to use those stories, they decided they were going to do their own thing so I decided, ‘Fine … I’ll go my way and I let them go their way.’” Continue reading “Star Wars VII”: Nostalgia and Repetition A Long Time Ago …
All Holocaust Movies Doomed to Fail?
Click Here to Read: All Holocaust Movies Doomed to Fail? Defying fictionalization, the Shoah “builds a border around itself,” Claude Lanzmann said. Is he right? by Dan Kagan-Kans on the Mosaic website on March 28, 2016.
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From Claude Lanzmann’s Shoah, 1985.
