How a psychologist thinks about your favorite Film & TV characters.

THREE BILLBOARDS
OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?

Martin McDonagh’s darkly comic and deeply painful Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri gives us a tough look at how anger and blame is one (ineffective) way of trying to handle very difficult feelings. We have Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand), a bereaved mom: hardened, blunt, feeling uncharacteristically helpless, and furious about it. The town’s much loved …

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OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
How Does The Buck Finally Stop?

LEO HURWITZ
HERE AT THE WATER’S EDGE 1961
Seeing What Needs To Be Seen

Leo Hurwitz’s film, Here At The Water’s Edge (Watch Film), features the 1960 New York City’s waterfront. Made with photographer Charles Pratt, the film is a cinematic poem to the people who work on the water. Pratt, who largely financed the film, made it possible for Leo to use his vision as an artist and …

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HERE AT THE WATER’S EDGE 1961
Seeing What Needs To Be Seen

LEO HURWITZ’S
THE MUSEUM AND THE FURY 1956
Remember The Dangers Of Fascism

Let’s remember the threats of fascism. Forgetting is a very dangerous thing. And, Leo Hurwitz’s film, The Museum and The Fury 1956,  shows us why. Yet we do forget when we don’t want to see what exists on our own soil. Leo’s 1948 film Strange Victory details the seeds for fascism in America: racism, antisemitism, and …

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THE MUSEUM AND THE FURY 1956
Remember The Dangers Of Fascism

LEO HURWITZ’S
THE YOUNG FIGHTER
How the Film Inspired
The Rise of Cinéma Vérité

This Piece on The Young Fighter Written By Manfred Kirchheimer. Edits By Tom Hurwitz The first tape recorders were stolen from the Nazis. Enter John T. Mullin and Bing Crosby. Just after the Allies’ victory in Europe, Mullin was investigating a rumored secret German radio-wave ray for the US Army. He came up dry on …

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THE YOUNG FIGHTER
How the Film Inspired
The Rise of Cinéma Vérité