Click Here to Read: Inception: Major Success For Nolan  by Deya Bhattacharya on the First Reporter website on July 19, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  Other reviews of the movie Inception on this website.

Click Here to Read: Review: Inception by William Schiffelbein on the Sans Broccoli website on July 17, 2010.

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Click Here to Read: Leonardo DiCaprio read dozens of psychology books to prepare for his role in new movie Inception on the Music Smooch website.

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Click Here to Read: This Time the Dream’s on Me By A. O. Scott in the New York Times on July 15, 2010.

Click Here to Read: Where Is Freud When You Need Him? on this website.

by Herbert H. Stein

How does a film evoke our emotions? I found my own emotions buffeted about as I watched David Lynch’s film, Mulholland Drive. It can be a difficult film to watch. It appears to be a suspense/mystery story about two young women in danger. But there are strange intrusions into that story that are at times macabre. About three quarters of the way in, the plot dissolves, the characters change identity, and we experience a melange of scenes that suggest a very different story. Interestingly, amidst the confusion, I found myself responding with shifting affects, anxiety for the most of the first part of the film, with a strong feeling of sadness at the end.

Mulholland Drive is structured much like a dream, except that there is no clear identification of a dreamer. It is like a dream experienced rather than a dream remembered. There is no waking up, no available remembered day residue. Continue reading A Psychoanalytic Tour of “Mulholland Drive”

Click Here to Read:  Where Is Freud When You Need Him? Pop culture’s latest fix: the stuff that dreams are made of by Caryn James in Newsweek Magazine on  July 12, 2010.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt stands, with Leonardo DiCaprio to his left, in a scene from ‘Inception.’

Click Here to Read: ‘The Kids Are All Right’ Puts The ‘Fun’ In ‘Dysfunction’ by Ella Taylor on the NPR Website on July 8, 2010.  If you have an RSS feed or if you subscribe to My Yahoo!, Google Fusion, My MSN, Bloglines or Netvibes, you can  get podcasts from this website that contain interviews with Director Lisa Cholodenko On Conceiving ‘The Kids’ and the actor Mark Ruffalo, an actor who appears in the film, On Navigating Dramas Onscreen And Off.

Annette Bening and Julianne Moore in “The Kids are All Right.”

Click Here to Read: Set Pictures From Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method Surface, Revealing Mortensen & Fassbender As Freud & Jung By Joshua Brunsting on The Criterion Cast Website on July 6, 2010.

Click Here to Read:  A Dangerous Method from Film Comment Magazine on this website.

Click Here to Read:  Freud and Jung: A Meeting of Minds on this website.