Projections: Woody Allen - The Cinema of Neurosis
Projections: Woody Allen - The Cinema of Neurosis
Seminar from the Freud Museum of London
Presenter: Mary Wild
Session 1 - Love, pt. 1
Friday 30 April 2021
Films to be reviewed in seminar
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen, 1985) WA has ranked this as one of his best films. (in the final scene she walks in to theater with her suitcase and watches Top Hat (Mark Sandrich,1935) with Ginger Rogers, Fred Astaire. It's one of the best musicals in cinema history, elegant and sophisticated, featuring the extraordinary music of Irving Berlin. Couple Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers expresses themselves at their best, performing with style, grace and talent. It was the biggest film in the year 1935.) From "Quando al Cinema si sognava" FaceBook. "She feels a sense of power in that entity because when she's watching the same movie over and over, she can then predict the events that happen. Which give her a feeling that is close to having a sense of control because she can predict, nothing can take her by surprise if she's already seen the cinema 10xs. She knows what's going to happen next and this is comforting. In a harsh reality out there outside...
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