Click here to read: “Review: Psychoanalysis slows a gorgeous ‘Snow White'” by Scott Bowles from USA Today on May 31, 2012.

Click here to read: “Richard Linklater’s Bernie, About Life and Death in East Texas” by David Walsh from World Socialist Web Site on May 31, 2012, which reviews American independent director Richard Linklater’s film, Bernie.

This Italian movie (English subtitles), billed as a comedy opens with a funeral. Actually it is the real footage of the funeral of the real Pope John Paul. It is very impressive and I believe this scene is the key to the movie that follows. We watch the procession of the chanting 108 Cardinals. Soon we are given closeups of the serious demeanor of their faces. Some of these faces, have their name and home country printed to show us the authenticity of what we are viewing and even though we may not realize it, we have actually moved smoothly into the fictitious tale that is the film we are going to see. This quality of the genuine persists throughout the movie. We feel honored that we are invited into the Apostolic Palace, but actually we are seeing a very faithful replica that has been built for our seduction to believe this is real. In fact one of the pleasures of this movie is that it takes us into a place that is shielded from public eyes, Continue reading We Have a Pope Reviewed by Selma Duckler

Click here to read: “Two significant works: Fritz Lang’s House by the River (1950) and Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949)” by Kevin Kearney from the World Socialist Web Site on May 22, 2012.

Click Here to Read: The Story of Melancholia  by Åsa Jansson on the History of Emotions website on The Story of Melancholia on November 28, 2011.

Bully is a very popular highly rated documentary playing in first run theatres around the country now.

25 years ago a documentary of this type would have been shown to select parent teacher groups or other education/school groups, and it would have been shocking. It would not have been shown in movie theaters along with the movie fare of the day because it wouldn’t have been considered marketable. Continue reading Review of Bully by Selma Duckler

Jeff Who Lives at Home is a film with a theme of loss that is advertised as a comedy, criticized as being contrived, and given consistent high ratings because it was seen as inspiring.

Jeff is a conflicted 30 year old man who belies his anxieties with a laid back manner, his bulky body in loose athletic clothing, his face, still so boy like that one easily dismisses the intense absorbed look that makes Jeff seem not quite connected with the real world. He has a soft appearance that is likable, but lacks any suggestion of strength…despite a big muscular body. Continue reading Review of Jeff Who Lives at Home by Selma Duckler

Click here to read the second of a series of articles on the 2012 San Francisco International Film Festival by World Socialist Web Site, “Crulic – The Path to Beyond from Romania: The Tragic fate of a decent, humble human being,” written by Kevin Kearney and posted to the site on May 19, 2012.