Gone With the Wind is a story about a spoiled Southern girl’s hopeless love for a married man. The movie opens in April of 1861, at the palatial Southern estate of Tara, where Scarlett O’Hara (Vivien Leigh) hears that her casual beau Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard) plans to marry “mealy mouthed” Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de […]
The Great Gatsby
One of the finest novels of American literature gets the lavish treatment we expect from the director of Moulin Rouge! and Romeo and Juliet. Were it not for those party scenes at the millionaire’s mansion, The Great Gatsby would seem to be far down the list of possible projects for the hyper Luhrmann, but Gatsby […]
Histrionic Personality Disorder and Cinema Therapy
Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a long-standing pattern of attention seeking behavior and extreme emotionality. Someone with histrionic personality disorder wants to be the center of attention in any group of people, and feel uncomfortable when they are not. While often lively, interesting and sometimes dramatic, they have difficulty when people aren’t focused exclusively […]
Birdcage
A gay cabaret owner Armand Goldman (Robin Williams) and Albert Goldman (Nathan Lane), his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son (Val Goldman) can introduce them to his fiancée’s (Calista Flockhart) right-wing moralistic parents. Her parents, Kevin and Louise, (Gene Hackman, Diane Wiest) are ultra conservative and […]