The film focuses on the March sisters – beautiful Meg (Trini Alvarado), tempestuous Jo (Winona Ryder), tender Beth (Claire Danes), and romantic Amy (Kirsten Dunst) – growing up in Concord, Massachusetts during and after the American Civil War. With their father away fighting in the war, the girls struggle with major and minor problems under […]
Archives for July 2009
The Sting
Johnny Hooker (Robert Redford) is a young con-man who is being taught by Luther Coleman (Robert Earl Jones). One day they pull one of their con jobs and net themselves a huge roll. What they don’t know is that the man they conned is the courier for a numbers runner. It turns out that the […]
The Hurt Locker
The Hurt Locker opens with a quotation from War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a best-selling 2002 book by Chris Hedges, a New York Times war correspondent and journalist: “The rush of battle is a potent and often lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Sergeant First Class William James (Jeremy Renner), a […]
The Presence of the Feminine in Film
This pioneering book introduces a largely unexamined dimension of film, the ‘feminine,’ which cannot be reduced to women s experience, or to men s projections onto women. The Presence of the Feminine in Film gives body to that often rather loosely formulated Jungian conception, the ‘feminine aspect of psyche,’ by noticing what ‘feminine’ turns out […]