Click Here To Read: Harold Ramis lives the good life, one insecurity at a time. ‘Year One’ is Chicago-area director’s latest film by Ellen Warren on the Chicago Tribune.com website on June 21, 2009.

Click Here To Read: Interview: Woody Allen on Whatever Works, The Meaning of Life (or Lack Thereof), and the Allure of Younger Women Reviewed By Scott Foundas on the Sound of the city website on June 18, 2009.

Click Here To Read: The Movies On My Mind: Briefest Encounter: Lost In Translation, written and directed by Sofia Coppola and reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.  Lost in Translation and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website,   http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.

Click Here To Read: Conformist: Godard Meets Freud By Srikanth Srinivasan on the dead cinema website on June 16th, 2009.

by H H Stein

Fighting against the most powerful force known to man.

In the world of our emotions, no image is without conflict. Even the womb has its dark side. Continue reading “Independence Day”: Isakower in the Sky

 Click Here To Read:  Whine Country: Sideways, directed and written by Alexander Payne, Reviewed By Harvey Roy Greenberg.  Sideways and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website,  http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews.

 Click Here To Read: Vilde Chaya, Review of The Butcher Boy by Neil Jordan, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.  The Butcher Boy and most of the other films cited in Dr. Greenberg’s review are available either through Netflix, Ebay, or Amazon.com, as well as special internet sites.  Dr. Harvey Roy Greenberg, Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, publishes widely on cinema, media, and popular culture. Other reviews and essays can be found at his website,  http://www.doctorgreenberg.net.  Dr. Greenberg welcomes comment, criticism, and further discussion, of his reviews and/or cinema in general.

To order any of the following DVDs, please contact Psypsa@aol.com There is a discount if you order the entire set.

1) Jerusalem: Center of the World 

For over 40 centuries, untold numbers of Jews, Christians and Muslims have come to Jerusalem to look for God, while billions more have worshiped from afar. Jerusalem: Center of the World, a two-hour epic event in Hi-Definition by Emmy Award-winning producer/director Andrew Goldberg and OregonPublic Television, is the first documentary of this scope to delve into the historical facts and religious beliefs that have led so many thousands to live and die for this city. Continue reading DVDs from Two Cats Productions

I thought that the current “remake” of  The Day the Earth Stood Still should occasion a look at the original science fiction classic. I had not seen it for many years, perhaps going back to childhood. It is the story of a man from space who comes to Earth to preach peace in the face of the nuclear arms race. It takes its title from a scene in which he stops all machinery on Earth for one half hour as a demonstration of his power. The film holds up surprisingly well, despite some flaws regarding the incredible naivete of the characters. In all, I found it to be as engrossing now as in 1951.

The story can be looked at from several perspectives: as a morality play on the evils of war and the arms race, as a religious parable, as a personal story of a fatherless family, and as a personification of a powerful unconscious fantasy that we all share. Continue reading The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Using Paternal Awe to Stop the Arms Race