#whalewarrior
Narrator about farm fish: "They must all be psychotic by the time they're taken." (0:50)
Canadian author Farley Mowat tells environmental activist Paul Watson, "That is the recipe for suicide." (0:53)
psychosis | suicide
Paul Watson, Martin Sheen, Robert Hunter, Farley Mowat 2008
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Fear Me Not
#fearmenot
Watch and Twitter Chat
6:00 PM Pacific Time, Tuesday February 7
Every Tuesday around 6PM PT (so right coasters can join in and still get to bed on time) watch the designated movie and chat with Twitter. While watching I will Tweet notes you can follow along with tweetchat.com or twitterfall.com. If you Tweet your comments, too, I will put it all together for my blog post about the film.
I begin each comment that refers to a specific place in the film with the time displayed (with Roku streaming the time displays when you pause the film.) to the earlier minute. For example, 0:12.
You can watch instantly with your Roku, computer or other device via Netflix, order the DVD, or view on demand from Amazon.
Ulrich Thomsen 2008
Fear Me Not
Watch and Twitter Chat
6:00 PM Pacific Time, Tuesday February 7
Every Tuesday around 6PM PT (so right coasters can join in and still get to bed on time) watch the designated movie and chat with Twitter. While watching I will Tweet notes you can follow along with tweetchat.com or twitterfall.com. If you Tweet your comments, too, I will put it all together for my blog post about the film.
I begin each comment that refers to a specific place in the film with the time displayed (with Roku streaming the time displays when you pause the film.) to the earlier minute. For example, 0:12.
You can watch instantly with your Roku, computer or other device via Netflix, order the DVD, or view on demand from Amazon.
Ulrich Thomsen 2008
Fear Me Not
Monday, January 30, 2012
A Better Life
#abetterlife | Facebook
His aunt Anita tells young Luis she will not tolerate "any drugs." (1:17)
drug
Demian Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia, Joaquín Cosio, Carlos Linares 2011
His aunt Anita tells young Luis she will not tolerate "any drugs." (1:17)
drug
Demian Bichir, José Julián, Dolores Heredia, Joaquín Cosio, Carlos Linares 2011
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Howl
#howlmovie | Official Site
Poet Allen Ginsberg shares a joint with beat generation writer Jack Kerouac (0:11)
Ginsberg tells us writers should not neglect to about "their neuroses..." (0:17)
An animated character throws himself off the top of a building. A naked man with a tourniquet on his arm injects a drug, turns into skeleton, then burns to ash. (0:20)
Ginsberg talks about residing in a "cold water apartment filled with junkies and thieves. (0:23)
Ginsberg tells how he avoided arrest after a mishap: "The easiest way to get out of the whole thing it turns out was to just go to the Psychiatric Institute on 168th street. I was in the loony bin for eight months." (0:24)
Ginsberg tells us his friend "Carl was having problems because he was receiving shock treatment... and medication." (0:25)
Ginsberg's interviewer asks him, "Your mother was institutionalized wasn't she?" (0:26)
Ginsberg: "My mother Naomi was in and out of mental intitutions from the itme I was six. When I was twenty-one I had to sign the papers for her lobotomy. She died at Pilgrim State Hospital." (0:26)
Scene of staff placing on a patient electrodes and oxygen mask before a shock produces a seizure.
Ginsberg: "After I got out of the mental hospital I had a period of fear." (0:28)
The animated character jumps off the roof. (0:43)
Ginsberg "In San Francisco I had a year of psychotherapy with Dr. Hicks. He says he told Dr. Hicks what he really wanted was to spend his time among other things "smoking pot, and doing whatever I want." (0:46)
Ginsberg: "Peter and I saw Moloch one day when we took peyote... what drove my mother to madness..." (0:49)
Animation of his mother's treatment ECT "in Rockland" apparently referring to Rockland State Hospital.(0:56)
Ginsberg: "If you're a foot fetishist, you write about feet." (1:13)
electroconvulsive therapy | joint | mescaline | neurosis | psychiatric hospital | suicide
James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker 2010
Excerpts read from the poem itself are rich with references to psychiatry and substance use:
Poet Allen Ginsberg shares a joint with beat generation writer Jack Kerouac (0:11)
Ginsberg tells us writers should not neglect to about "their neuroses..." (0:17)
An animated character throws himself off the top of a building. A naked man with a tourniquet on his arm injects a drug, turns into skeleton, then burns to ash. (0:20)
Ginsberg talks about residing in a "cold water apartment filled with junkies and thieves. (0:23)
Ginsberg tells how he avoided arrest after a mishap: "The easiest way to get out of the whole thing it turns out was to just go to the Psychiatric Institute on 168th street. I was in the loony bin for eight months." (0:24)
Ginsberg tells us his friend "Carl was having problems because he was receiving shock treatment... and medication." (0:25)
Ginsberg's interviewer asks him, "Your mother was institutionalized wasn't she?" (0:26)
Ginsberg: "My mother Naomi was in and out of mental intitutions from the itme I was six. When I was twenty-one I had to sign the papers for her lobotomy. She died at Pilgrim State Hospital." (0:26)
Scene of staff placing on a patient electrodes and oxygen mask before a shock produces a seizure.
Ginsberg: "After I got out of the mental hospital I had a period of fear." (0:28)
The animated character jumps off the roof. (0:43)
Ginsberg "In San Francisco I had a year of psychotherapy with Dr. Hicks. He says he told Dr. Hicks what he really wanted was to spend his time among other things "smoking pot, and doing whatever I want." (0:46)
Ginsberg: "Peter and I saw Moloch one day when we took peyote... what drove my mother to madness..." (0:49)
Animation of his mother's treatment ECT "in Rockland" apparently referring to Rockland State Hospital.(0:56)
Ginsberg: "If you're a foot fetishist, you write about feet." (1:13)
electroconvulsive therapy | joint | mescaline | neurosis | psychiatric hospital | suicide
James Franco, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker 2010
Excerpts read from the poem itself are rich with references to psychiatry and substance use:
Saturday, January 28, 2012
The Artist
#theartist
In opening scenes actor George is tortured with a device suggestive of electroconvulsive therapy. (0:00)
George, his hand in the shape of a pistol, pretends to shoot himself in the head. (0:25)
Despondent, George retrieves his revolver from a box, places the barrel in his mouth. Caption: "Bang!" (1:31)
electroconvulsive therapy | suicide
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo 2011
In opening scenes actor George is tortured with a device suggestive of electroconvulsive therapy. (0:00)
George, his hand in the shape of a pistol, pretends to shoot himself in the head. (0:25)
Despondent, George retrieves his revolver from a box, places the barrel in his mouth. Caption: "Bang!" (1:31)
electroconvulsive therapy | suicide
Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo 2011
Friday, January 27, 2012
Beginners
#beginnersmovie
Artist Oliver pours his deceased father's pills in the toilet. (0:02)
Oliver tells us, referring to his father Hal, "He saw a therapist for the first time." (0:06)
Oliver tells Hal in the hospital, "You're very high on drugs." (0:08)
A fellow partier tells Oliver, "Oh you're being a therapist, Freud."
"Do you need analysis?" (0:14)
Oliver tells his friend Anna, "My father died two months ago." (0:22)
Oliver's mother Georgia tells him, "It's called catharsis." (0:31)
Oliver's caption for a sketch: "First gay man diagnosed as mentally ill." (0:41)
Oliver reads to Anna about Monica Lake, "She struggled with mental illness and alcoholism." (0:45)
Oliver tells Hal, reorganizing books in the middle of the night, "The prednisone makes you crazy." (0:47)
Oliver tells Anna, "My father lay down on a couch like this and told a psychiatrist all his problems in 1955. The doctor told him that homosexuality was a mental illness, but it could be cured." (0:49)
Anna mimics her own father to Oliver, "I can't stop thinking about it... killing myself" (0:56)
Hal recieves last rites before he dies. Oliver grieves. He reviews what you do when a parent dies. (1:32)
Bereavement | catharsis | psychiatrist | Sigmund Freud | suicide
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent 2010
Artist Oliver pours his deceased father's pills in the toilet. (0:02)
Oliver tells us, referring to his father Hal, "He saw a therapist for the first time." (0:06)
Oliver tells Hal in the hospital, "You're very high on drugs." (0:08)
A fellow partier tells Oliver, "Oh you're being a therapist, Freud."
"Do you need analysis?" (0:14)
Oliver tells his friend Anna, "My father died two months ago." (0:22)
Oliver's mother Georgia tells him, "It's called catharsis." (0:31)
Oliver's caption for a sketch: "First gay man diagnosed as mentally ill." (0:41)
Oliver reads to Anna about Monica Lake, "She struggled with mental illness and alcoholism." (0:45)
Oliver tells Hal, reorganizing books in the middle of the night, "The prednisone makes you crazy." (0:47)
Oliver tells Anna, "My father lay down on a couch like this and told a psychiatrist all his problems in 1955. The doctor told him that homosexuality was a mental illness, but it could be cured." (0:49)
Anna mimics her own father to Oliver, "I can't stop thinking about it... killing myself" (0:56)
Hal recieves last rites before he dies. Oliver grieves. He reviews what you do when a parent dies. (1:32)
Bereavement | catharsis | psychiatrist | Sigmund Freud | suicide
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Mélanie Laurent 2010
Thursday, January 26, 2012
My Week with Marilyn
#myweekwithmarilyn
Frustrated actor Sir Laurence tells Paula, "I'd rather kill myself." (0:34)
Producer Milton looks at a pill bottle in his hand: "She'll need something to help her calm down."
Sir Laurence tells third assistant director Colin, "Pills to sleep, pills to wake, pills to calm her down, pills to giver her energy." (0:36)
Marilyn's driver Roger tells Colin, "She's taken some pills and gone to bed. They like to keep her doped up." (0:37)
Pill bottles on a table. (0:40)
Colin asks Paula, "How many pills did she take?" (1:07)
When he sees her pick up a pill bottle Colin tells Marilyn, "Please don't take any more."
Marilyn tells Colin the picture is of her mother "Right before the took her to the asylum." (1:10)
Bottles of Tuinal and Amytal on the table in Marilyn's room. (1:17)
amobarbital | secobarbital | suicide
Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh 2011
Read the book by Colin Clark:
Frustrated actor Sir Laurence tells Paula, "I'd rather kill myself." (0:34)
Producer Milton looks at a pill bottle in his hand: "She'll need something to help her calm down."
Sir Laurence tells third assistant director Colin, "Pills to sleep, pills to wake, pills to calm her down, pills to giver her energy." (0:36)
Marilyn's driver Roger tells Colin, "She's taken some pills and gone to bed. They like to keep her doped up." (0:37)
Pill bottles on a table. (0:40)
Colin asks Paula, "How many pills did she take?" (1:07)
When he sees her pick up a pill bottle Colin tells Marilyn, "Please don't take any more."
Marilyn tells Colin the picture is of her mother "Right before the took her to the asylum." (1:10)
Bottles of Tuinal and Amytal on the table in Marilyn's room. (1:17)
amobarbital | secobarbital | suicide
Michelle Williams, Emma Watson, Kenneth Branagh 2011
Read the book by Colin Clark:
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