Click Here to View: Psychoanalysis of Bruce Wayne as Batman, a video in the Emery Looks At Hollywood Series on the Emery The Post website on August 15, 2012.
Category: Movies
Sydney Film Festival 2012—Part 4: Two love stories and a couple of class-conscious dramas from Korea and Brazil
From Hunger by Harvey Roy Greenberg
FROM HUNGER by Harvey Roy Greenberg
An earlier version of Dr. Greenberg’s review appeared in his column, THE MEDIA ON MY MIND: ADVENTURES IN POP CULTURE, published by Clinical Psychiatry News.”
The Hunger Games, a novel by Stephanie Collins
The Hunger Games, the film, directed by Gary Ross
The Hunger Games, the film, directed by Gary Ross
Philosophers since Plato have portrayed Utopias – earlthy paradises crafted and lead by the best of the best. Science fiction mainly favors dystopian hells over utopian heavens. In story or film, dystopian futures may be precipitated by natural disaster or alien attack. In recent years, they’ve been emerging from our assaults upon the planet or each other. Continue reading From Hunger by Harvey Roy Greenberg
“Mere Anarchy” on James Holmes by Harvey Roy Greenberg
MERE ANARCHY
It’s still far too early in the aftermath of the lethal game which James Holmes played out in an Aurora, Colorado multiplex to get more than a shadow of a read about his motivation. his narrative. Psychoanalysts possess a native madness to interpret – it’s in our blood. Few verified details have emerged about Holmes prior life, hardly enough to piece together a coherent pictures of the inner man, or the external circumstances which might have precipitated his murderous scenario.
At this point, I will only address some aspects of the Aurora massacre Continue reading “Mere Anarchy” on James Holmes by Harvey Roy Greenberg
The Queen of Versailles: American “royalty” seeks to build its own palace
My Queen: The last days of the ancien régime
Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus discusses Beauty
Click here to read “Filmmaker Oliver Hermanus discusses Beauty” by Richard Phillips from World Socialist Web Site on August 4, 2012.
South African writer-director Oliver Hermanus spoke about Beauty(Skoonheid in Afrikaans), his second feature film, with the World Socialist Web Site during this year’s Sydney Film Festival.
The Love Goddess Who Keeps Right on Seducing
Review of In A Better World (Haevnen), reviewed by Selma Duckler
In A Better World (Haevnen) Danish film 2010 Director Susanne Bier
In A Better World won the Oscar for the best foreign film in 2011.
The Danish title, Haevnen,means Vengeance.I feel that is the correct name for this thoughtful intense movie. In A Better World has the sound of a sermon, and thats not what this movie is about…even though it deals with problematic ethical issues. There is a lot of revenge happening…between bullying children, between adults , between husband & wife and between warring power Continue reading Review of In A Better World (Haevnen), reviewed by Selma Duckler
