“Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.”

Goya   Continue reading The Monsters are always there: an appreciation of Cronenberg’s “History of Violence” by Bennett Roth, Ph. D.

Click Here To Read: Implausible Deniability, a review of of the movie, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred Leuchter, Jr., directed by Errol Morris, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

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. You can purchase both of these movies online.

Click Here to Read: Chaplin biographer to speak in San Francisco By Thomas Gladysz in the San Francisco Examiner on April 8, 2009.

Click Here To Read: Bemused, a review of Topsy-Turvy, directed by Mike Leigh and Wonder Boys, directed by Curtis Hanson, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

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. You can purchase both of these movies online.

Click Here To Read: Desire and the Twin Peaks Spectator-Subject by Jean Lefebvre and Catherine McNair on originally written May 18, 1992.

Click Here to Read: I Know Not Seems: In The Bedroom, directed by Todd Field, reviewed by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

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.

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy Presides Continue reading DVD of Hamlet’s Murder Trial: Is He Guilty or Innocent by Reason of Insanity?

Click Here To Read: Kind of weirdly great herself, about actress Alison Pill, featured in the second season of HBO’s In Treatment,  by Johanna Schneller on the Globe and Mail website on April 17, 2009.

Alison Pill

Click Here To Read: Freud at the Bijou by Harvey Roy Greenberg.

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.

A Book Review of Empire of Dreams by Andrew M. Gordon   (paperback  $26.95 )   Bowman and Littlefield Publishers Inc. 2008

by Bennett Roth Ph.D.

Published originally in Projections

My qualifications for reviewing this book are multiple: first there is my psychoanalytic training ; second, my love of movies; and finally the fact that my children came of age with these films and they either took me, or I took them to these movies. So as a Dad I took at least one of my children to all the films except “Duel” (1971) and “Always” that Professor Gordon has represented in this current consolidated offering of his papers on Spielberg’s films . Continue reading Taking Spielberg Seriously