Category: Movies

Reviews of A Dangerous Method
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Click Here to Read: Two unique minds meld in ‘A Dangerous Method’ By Susan Wloszczyna,in USA Today on November 28, 2011.

Click Here to Read: A Dangerous Method’ plumbs emotional depths By  Matthew Welch on the Tufts Daily website on Novmber 28, 2011.

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’: Does The Film Do Sabina Spielrein Justice? by Margaret Wheeler Johnson on the Huffington Post November 24, 2011.  

Click Here to Read:  Michael Fassbender is a leading man – ‘A Dangerous  Method’ reviewed  By Cahir O’Doherty in the Irish Voice Arts on  November 24, 2011.

Click Here to Read: ‘A Dangerous Method’ review: Mortensen, Fassbender mesmerize By Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times on  November 23, 2011.

Hidden Battles, Film at IPTAR
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ART PSYCHOANALYSIS, AND SOCIETY PROJECT
Saturday, December 3 2011
2 – 4 PM
140 West 97th St. NYC 10025
FILM EVENT AND INTERVIEW
VICTORIA MILLS’

HIDDEN BATTLES, a feature length documentary, is a dramatic and deeply personal film about the psychological impact of killing on the lives of five soldiers. Directed by IPTAR member Victoria Mills, the film examines the strength and straggles of men and women who kill and how they create a life for themselves afterwards Continue reading Hidden Battles, Film at IPTAR

“You’ve Got [Mail] Transference”
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A man enters his psychoanalyst’s office and lies on the couch. Staring alternately at the ceiling and at the window in front of him, he begins to speak freely. At first he skims the surface of his private thoughts—ideas and experiences he has formerly kept to himself.

“Brinkley is my dog. He loves the streets of New York as much as I do, although he likes to eat bits of pizza and bagel off the sidewalk and I prefer to buy them. Brinkley is a great catcher, was offered a tryout on the Mets’ farm team, but he chose to stay with me so that he could spend eighteen hours a day sleeping on a large green pillow the size of an inner tube. Don’t you love New York in the fall? It makes me want to buy school supplies. I would send you a bouquet of newly sharpened pencils if I knew your name and address. On the other hand, this not knowing has its charms.”

The man is Joe Fox, one of the central characters in the film, You’ve Got Mail. He is not lying on an analyst’s couch, but in certain respects he could be. Continue reading “You’ve Got [Mail] Transference”