Click Here to Read:  Mel Brooks may be a born cut-up, but he’s nobody’s fool Posted by Judie Jacobson on the Jewish Ledger Connecticut Edition on May 1, 2013.

Click Here to Read: American Film Makers Today by Dian G Smith on the Brooklsyn website.

Click Here to Read:  Doctor and Patient: A Gothic Love Story ‘Augustine,’ by Alice Winocour, Featuring Soko By A. O. Scott in The New York Times on May 16, 2013.

New film about Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot and his patient Augustine
AUGUSTINE
Opens May 17 in New York at Film Forum (http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/augustine) and the Eleanor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (http://www.filmlinc.com/films/on-sale/augustine1)
For more information, visit the film’s official website: http://www.musicboxfilms.com/augustine-movies-66.php
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Click Here to Read:  İstanbul Modern combines psychoanalysis with cinema on the Today’s Zaman website on  May  10, 2013.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being is in the beginning a very sexy movie. Erotic might be a better term for a movie review, but erotic is too affected a choice for this film. It is just sexy, light, and fun. Tomas is a young exuberantly handsome brain surgeon in Prague who enjoys his success with women,and also the pleasant envy he arouses in his male co workers who marvel at the ease and freedom of his sexual adventures. A surgeon is most likely to be successful when he has a quick light touch because his patients heal faster. Tissue does not do well, if it is handled a lot and with a heavy hand. this ability spills over into his love life…light, quick, and the young willing women do not have a broken heart from which to recover because an emotional entanglement is never part of an experience with Tomas. Perhaps the women would like that, but the way to seduce Tomas is to accept his needs for sex without strings attached in a pleasant way or he will move on to others who are also willing. this is a Continue reading The Unbearable Lightness of Being Reviewed by Selma Duckler

by Herbert H. Stein

One of the more unexpected and unusual Oscar nominees for best picture this year was Beasts of the Southern Wild, a semi-mythic story narrated by a five or six year old girl living with her father in a sprawling squatter community called “the bathtub” on the south (outer) side of the levee somewhere in Louisiana. As a story told by a child, Beasts of the Southern Wild is a blend of fantasy and reality. Continue reading “Beasts of the Southern Wild”: From the Mouth of a Child

Click Here to Read: The Place Beyond the Pines: Fathers and sons By David Walsh on The World Socialist Web Site on April 18, 2013.

The Place Beyond the Pines