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Late April Programs at the Center for Jewish History
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Tuesday, April 16, 2 pm
Center for Jewish History and Israel Film Center present:
Through His Eyes (Miba’ad L’eynayim)

Israel Film Center Festival Event A fascinating documentary history of Israeli cinema through the eyes of a still photographer, Yoni Hamenahem, who for the past 40 years has photographed the sets of many of Israel’s classic films. Since beginning his career in 1973 on the set of The House on Chelouche Street, Yoni has photographed 150 television and film productions and become one of the Continue reading Late April Programs at the Center for Jewish History

The Film “The Rules of the Game” with Discussion by George Mandelbaum at NYPSI
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CALENDAR / EVENT LISTING
When: Thursday, May 16, 2013
7:00 pm

What: New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute and Friends of the Abraham A. Brill Library present a film screening and discussion of Jean Renoir’s 1939 classic The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu) with George Mandelbaum.

Dr. Mandelbaum will examine the structure of The Rules of the Game through reference to the psychoanalytic concept of the “Primal Scene” and will examine the character’s interactions in the film as well as its value. Continue reading The Film “The Rules of the Game” with Discussion by George Mandelbaum at NYPSI

Kubrick’s Lost Holocaust Film
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Click Here to Read:  Kubrick’s Lost Holocaust Film: America’s greatest Jewish director was haunted by the Nazi horror—too much to address it directly in film By Abby Margulies on the Tablet Website on |March 28, 2013.

Stanley Kubrick on set during the filming of 2001: A Space Odyssey. (Warner Bros. Entertainment, courtesy LACMA)

Review of La Belle Noiseuse by Selma Duckler
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After I watched Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece film, La Belle Noiseuse, that won the coveted grand prix in the 1991 Cannes film festival, I knew I wanted to review it, and I knew this director was familiar with psychoanalysis, or had an uncanny sense of the exchanges , developments,failures and successes in intimate relationships such as the one between a therapist and patient. I went to Google and typed in my question. Has Jacques rivette been psychoanalyzed? Three interesting results came up among many others. he is mentioned in The Textbook of Continue reading Review of La Belle Noiseuse by Selma Duckler