WCSPP ANALYTIC FILM NIGHT: MY LIFE AS A DOG
1/25/13, Wainwright House, 260 Stuyvesant Ave. Rye, NY 10580, time 7:00 P.M. RSVP
This film, released in 1988, was widely hailed as a work of tremendous depth and talent, probing the depths of a child’s life experience in the face of his mother’s untimely illness and death, already having been left by his father. Slowly learning the ways of people and the pain of loss, he comes to understand and survive, Continue reading My Life as a Dog at WCSPP
On the face of it, it is astounding that a silent film would win awards as best motion picture of the year; although, the anomaly may be a key to its success, as we may admire and enjoy something that is so different.
The film, The Artist, has a further burden. It centers around a silent film star, George Valentin, whose career plummets at the end of the silent era. It must elicit our sympathy for George, but he has many traits that are not sympathetic. At the outset, we see him as a Continue reading Father/Daughter Fantasy in “The Artist”
Click Here to Read: Lust, Caution A film directed by Ang Lie Reviewed by Anita Weinreb Katz.
Click Here to Read: Psycho analysis: Read later Creative licence runs wild in this pseudo-history of the great director, writes Paul Byrnes in the Sydney Morning Herald on January 12, 2013.
The wrong man … Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Hitchcock, with Helen Mirren, right, as his wife Alma, and Scarlett Johansson as Janet Leigh.
Click Here to Read: Review of “La Ceremonie” directed by Chabrol, Reviewed by Anita Weinreb Katz.
Click Here to Read: Review of the Movie The Son’s Room, reviewed by Selma Duckler.
