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Bernice Hill reviews Joel Schumacher's film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical "The Phantom of the Opera" and maps the concentric circles of experience of the wounded child within the wounded man.

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As a psychotherapist I see everyday how difficult it is for people to talk to each other. Clear talking and respectful listening are difficult skills for most of us to master. A PERFECT WORLD draws its emotional power from a man and a boy who find that they'll do just about anything to go on talking to each other.

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Bernice Hill explores the key message of Lasse Hallström's 1999 film: the rules we live by have to be forged in the unconventional crucible of the human heart.

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Ray Poggi explores how the characters in Edward Burn's film The Brothers McMullan face the choice between the responsibilities (and rewards) of growing up and the temptation to resist.

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Memory and Desire shows the way of inner change, the effect of big dreams, where tremendous inner images and journeys may hardly appear on the surface.

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Originally published in the Journal of Analytical Psychology, vol. 42, no. 1, 1997. Reprinted with permission.

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In therapy, people traditionally talk and do not act. In film, characters talk and act. Film dialogue not only moves with currents of text and subtext, it also flows with, against, or across the currents of visible--onscreen--action. Quentin Tarantino's PULP FICTION owes some of its success to the wild cross currents of dialogue, action, and character.

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Dolores Brien reflects on the lessons of Shohei Imamura’s 1982 film, The Ballad of Narayama. Only by recognizing what dying is really like can we rid ourselves of the fear of dying and prepare ourselves for what Sherwin Nuland says is the best we can hope for: our particular death.

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Two decades ago George Lucas brought to the big screen a trilogy of films that has excited and thrilled millions of movie viewers from at least two generations. Now he has returned with the first of three "prequels" to provide the background story to the central drama of the earlier movies involving the adventures of young Luke Skywalker. Is the Force still with Lucas? I believe so.

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