Click Here to Read: Legend and Room: Once again, celebrating the underworld—and a peculiar film about captives
By Joanne Laurier on the World Socialist Web Site December 17, 2015.
Category: Movies
Roman Polanski, 10 other Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust
Click Here to Read: Roman Polanski, 10 other Hollywood Jews open up about surviving Holocaust By Gabe Friedman on the JTA website on December 16, 2015.
French-Polish film director Roman Polanski attending a press conference at the Bonarowski Palace Hotel in Krakow, Poland, Oct. 30, 2015. (Adam Nurkiewicz/Getty Images
Review of Brooklyn by Selma Duckler
What The Danish Girl Reminds Us About Transgender People Throughout History
Iraqi Odyssey opens in the US
Force of Destiny—a thoughtful film about surviving cancer
Click Here to Read: Force of Destiny—a thoughtful film about surviving cancer By Richard Phillips on the World Socialist Web Site on November 16, 2015.
Click Here to Read: Veteran filmmaker Paul Cox discusses his latest feature By Richard Phillips on the World Socialist Web Site on November 16, 2015.
“Blind”: Looking Inward
Strictly speaking, it would be virtually impossible to make a successful feature film in which the audience sees the world through the eyes of a blind person. However, the Norwegian director, Eskil Vogt, has accomplished something far better, creating a film, Blind, in which the audience sees the world through the mind of a blind woman.
In the process, he provides a special treat for psychoanalysts and those who are interested in the inner workings of the mind. In fact, the film uses blindness not simply as a tragic occurrence, but also much the way we use the analytic couch, as a vehicle to encourage the inner workings of the mind by reducing the “distraction” of immediate perception. Continue reading “Blind”: Looking Inward
