When in Rome, Still an Anxious New York Intellectual

Click here to read “When in Rome, Still an Anxious New York Intellectual” by A.O. Scott from The New York Times, which reviews Wood Allen’s latest film, “To Rome With Love.”

“Don’t psychoanalyze me! Many have tried. All have failed.”

The significance of these lines, spoken by a retired music promoter named Jerry in “To Rome With Love,” is what a follower of Dr. Freud might call overdetermined. Jerry is played by Woody Allen, the director of this amusing little picture and, well, where to begin?

 

 

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Reviewed by Selma Duckler

Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

Film is an extraordinary media in which amazing visual and literary achievements are recorded and enjoyed, which lends itself to artistry in many ways.

Movies are an entirely different aspect of film making all together. Movies in the commercial film studios are made for profit and good business. We read that sex and violence sells but what really sells these 2 areas of delight is the Continue reading Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Reviewed by Selma Duckler

Review of Wim Wenders’ Pina by Selma Duckler

 

Pina – A film for Pina Bausch by Wim Wenders

If Pina is playing within a 50 mile radius of where you are, arrange to see it, and if it is further away, take the weekend and see this extraordinary film.

Even if you don’t especially like dance movies, for those who love psychoanalysis you will be entranced  by this movie and I believe enjoy seeing  how dance  brings  psychoanalytic ideas to  public consciousness.

 

 

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