Transit: Already in Hell
October 25, 2019
Christian Pitzold’s haunting 2019 film, based on Anna Seghel’s masterful 1942 novel.
Harvey Roy Greenberg, MD
Serial Pleasures
June 24, 2019
The pleasures of a story unfolded serially are ancient and ubiquitous.
Intellectual Disgrace
April 29, 2019
How do people with a shred or more of superego assuage the pricks of an uneasy conscience knowing they are sliding down a slippery dark slope?
The Movie on Your Patient’s Mind
March 22, 2019
Inquiring about a patient’s favorite movie sometimes proves unexpectedly revealing.
BlacKkKlansman Still Birth of a Nation
November 28, 2018
The most scorching inditement of racism yet in film. Warning: spoilers.
Babble on Revisited
July 25, 2018
Bingeing on news about the latest White House rumpus has escalated exponentially since the election. Whatever their political views, patients are haunted by an inchoate sense that the wheels are coming off the car, with nary a mechanic in site.
Molly’s Game: Poker Hospital and Pathologic Gambling
March 22, 2018
The game looks disarmingly simple. In fact, it’s alarmingly complex.
Blade Runner 2049: Tears in Rain
February 26, 2018
The sequel probes the big questions without flinging them in the viewer’s face. How does memory articulate with one’s sense of origin and purpose—and, above all, of death?
IT: On the Unheimlich Maneuvers of Stephen King
November 23, 2017
King is singularly adept at capturing the vicissitudes, mores, and speech of pre-teenagers (particularly boys) throughout his writing—most notably in one of his longest novels, IT.
Multiplex Melodies
October 17, 2017
What one brings to the table from one’s own life may figure prominently —and poignantly —in one’s response to a film score.
