In 1863, First Lieutenant John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) is wounded in the American Civil War. Rather than having his leg amputated, he takes a horse and rides up to the Confederate front lines, distracting them in the process. The roused Union army then attacks and the battle ends in a Confederate rout. Dunbar survives, […]
Archives for November 2006
Gidget: The Series
Catch a wave with America’s favorite southern California beach teen in Gidget. Join Sally Field as perky 15-year-old Frances Elizabeth Lawrence — better known to her family and friends as Gidget, Don Porter as her ever-loving father, Russ, and a host of such soon-to-be-famous faces as Richard Dreyfuss, Barbara Hershey, Bonnie Franklin, Harvey Korman and […]
Jung and Film
Jung and Film: Post-Jungian Takes on the Moving Image brings together some of the best new writing from both sides of the Atlantic, introducing the use of Jungian ideas in film analyis. Illustrated with examinations of seminal films including Pulp Fiction, Blade Runner, and 2001 – A Space Odyssey, Chris Hauke and Ian Alister, along […]
The Prestige
Magician Alfred Borden (Christian Bale) is sentenced for the murder of rival Robert Angier (Hugh Jackman). Both were assistants for Milton the Magician (Ricky Jay) with ingénieur John Cutter (Michael Caine). Angier’s wife Julia (Piper Perabo) drowned performing a water cell act and Angier blames Borden, who professes not to remember if he had tied […]