Review of Life of Pi by Selma Duckler

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 16, 2012 Movies

The Tiger

By William Blake

1757-1827
TIGER, tiger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

In what distant deeps or skies
Burnt the fire of thine eyes?
On what wings dare he aspire?
What the hand dare seize the fire? Continue reading Review of Life of Pi by Selma Duckler

The Life of Pi: In a lifeboat alone with a tiger

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 15, 2012 Movies

Click Here to Read: .The Life of Pi: In a lifeboat alone with a tiger By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on December 15, 2012.

The Master

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 14, 2012 Movies

Click Here to Read: The Master: a perversion of psychoanalysis incited by the compulsion to repeat by Aaron Balick on his Mind Work blog on December 12, 2012

Film Showing & Psychoanalysis in Peru

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 11, 2012 Audio/Video, Movies

This Film & Psychoanalysis Show has been going on in Lima since 2007. The idea was concocted by Pilar Gavilano, member of the Peruvian Society of Psychoanalysis, given the simultaneity of a Peruvian psychoanalytic congress on Eros, Love and Sexuality. Thus the first theme of the film show was “Eros in Film” within pre-congress activities.

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Hannukah Specials from IPBooks! Yiddish Movies, City Wintin a City, The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud and Be’Tipul

By Tamar SchwartzDecember 10, 2012 Audio/Video, Books, Movies

Now on the IPBooks website: Yiddish Language DVDs

A list of the available DVDs:
A Brivele der Mamen (A Letter to Mother), Dakh Brisel (Brussels-Transit), Dem Khazns Zindl (The Cantor’s Son), Der Vilner Shtot Continue reading Hannukah Specials from IPBooks! Yiddish Movies, City Wintin a City, The Jewish World of Sigmund Freud and Be’Tipul

Spielberg: A director’s life reflected in film

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 27, 2012 Audio/Video, Movies

Click Here to Read and View: Spielberg: A director’s life reflected in film by Lesley Stahl on the CBS news website on October 21, 2012. Steven Spielberg’s years of anger toward his father, and their later reconciliation, is still playing out in his films. .

An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 25, 2012 Business and Finance, Movies

Click Here to Read: An Inconvenient Truth About Lincoln (That You Won’t Hear from Hollywood). The president was a complicated man whose advocacy of railroads birthed a network of monopolies by Lynn Stuart Parramore on the Alternet website on November 20, 2012.

Kramer.com vs. Kramer.com

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 25, 2012 General News, Movies

Click Here to Read: Kramer.com vs. Kramer.com By Pamela Paul in The New York Times on November 23, 2012.

As ‘Hitchcock’ arrives, here’s a look back at the mystique of ‘Psycho’

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 25, 2012 Movies

Click Here to Read: As ‘Hitchcock’ arrives, here’s a look back at the mystique of ‘Psycho’ by Owen Gleiberman on the Entertainment Magazine website on Novmber 24, 2012.

A classical music critic’s take on ‘Mahler on the Couch’

By Tamar SchwartzNovember 25, 2012 Movies, Music

Click Here to Read: A classical music critic’s take on ‘Mahler on the Couch’:Examining the enduring genre of the composer biopic By Jeremy Eichler in the Boston Globe on November 23, 2012.