Merteuil (Annette Bening), a beautiful, wealthy widow in society, discovers that her secret lover Gercourt (Jeffrey Jones) is betrothed. She learns from her cousin Madame de Volanges (Siân Phillips) that Gercourt’s new fiancée is none other than Volanges’ 15-year-old daughter Cecile (Fairuza Balk). Volanges confides in Merteuil that Gercourt chose Cecile as she was raised […]
Archives for January 2007
St. Elsewhere: The Series
Beginning its six-year run in 1982, St. Elsewhere was neither television’s first ensemble medical drama nor, heaven knows, its last. Even now, when reality programming blights the landscape like some biblical plague, doc, cop, and lawyer shows remain staples of the medium, the older show, despite its somewhat cheesy ’70s vibe, is the hands-down winner […]
2006 Top 10 Cinema Therapy Films
1. A Prairie Home Companion – A private investigator (Kevin Kline) keeps tabs on the proceedings as guests, cast and crew (Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Woody Harrelson) of a long-running radio show prepare for the final broadcast. Their home, the Fitzgerald Theater, is due for demolition, and they await the arrival of the Texas axe-man […]
Psychiatry and the Cinema
Early in the history of cinema, psychiatrists studied the movies to understand their appeal and power. Meanwhile, filmmakers have long been intrigued by psychiatry and frequently portray this mysterious world in film. Both movies and psychiatry focus on human thought, emotions, behavior, and motivation-making a link between the two subjects inevitable. Psychiatry and the Cinema […]