Click here to read “Judd Hirsch and Tom Cavanagh Will Star in Freud’s Last Session in California” by Kenneth Jones from Playbill.com on September 28, 2012.
Mark St. Germain’s two-character play Freud’s Last Session will star two-time Tony Award winner Judd Hirsch as Sigmund Freud and Tom Cavanagh (of TV’s “Ed”) as C. S. Lewis under the direction of Tyler Marchant in a Los Angeles-area run in early 2013.
The Best of Youth (La meglio gioventu).This comes from the title of a series of poems written in 1954 in Friulian (an ancient Italian dialect) by Pier Palolo Pasolini. D.Maffia, biographer writes,”Paslolini’s dialect poetry…came to be in order to decipher the present using the distant past”.
One could use the same language to describe psychoanalysis, and it is also the major theme of this majestic 6 hour film that is one of finest movies I have ever seen.It was made in 2003 as an Italian mini series for Italian television, now available in two 3 hr discs.At the Cannes 2003 Film Festival it won the prestigious Un Certain Regard award, and accumulated rave reviews wherever it was shown. In the US it was shown in a few cities in art houses. Continue reading The Best of Youth Reviewed by Selma Duckler
Click Here to Read: Review of the movie “Arbitrage”: Where is Your Outrage? Reviewed by Virginia Youngren.
by Herbert H. Stein
Each generation chooses its favorite myths and images. Listening to patients and acquaintances and following the news, I have the sense that our own culture and folklore includes a fascination with apocalyptic predictions and prophecies. This year we had the “rapture” prediction in the spring and we all await the end of the Mayan calendar some time in December. (I personally was not planning to use a Mayan calendar.)
I am not going to attempt to explain this phenomenon here, but would like to point your attention to two films that came out in 2011, Take Shelter and Melancholia, which both partake in this fascination with apocalyptic visions. Not surprisingly, they also allow us to vicariously enter into a psychotic depression. Continue reading “Take Shelter” and “Melancholia”: Apocalypse in Film
Click Here to View: Cameron Diaz voices Sigmund Freud in this exclusive clip of A Liar’s Autobiography – The Untrue Story of Monty Python’s Graham Chapman. The film’s world premiere is TIFF and opens in theaters and on EPIX on November 2, 2012.
Click Here to Read:The Killer Killeth, Review of the Movie Footnote, Reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.
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Click Here to Read: Rodriguez: The Question is the Answer Review by Harvey Roy Greenberg. “An earlier version of this review/essay appeared in Clinical Psychiatry News.
The Matchmaker, directed by Avi Nesher is an Israeli film shown at the Israel film festival, that won 7 awards and was a candidate for best Israel film.It is a charming,delightful, and bittersweet film. it takes place in Haifa and It is not a political or a war film although politics and war are part of the reality of this story. The opening scene is in 2006 when the city is bombarded with Lebanese missiles,and even though we are focused on personal stories, we see some of the chaos, and throughout the movie, we are made aware of alarming newspaper headlines.The story quickly moves to remembrance of times past Continue reading Matchmaker Movie Review by Selma Duckler
Click Here to Read: Sydney Film Festival—Part 6: Bernardo Bertolucci’s rise and fall By Richard Phillips on the World Socialist Website on August 19, 2012.
Bernardo Bertolucci
