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Leo Hurwitz Discovery in a Landscape I will look with your eyes you will see with mine

LEO HURWITZ
THE ART OF SEEING 1968 – 1970
DISCOVERY IN A LANDSCAPE
“I Will Look With Your Eyes
You Will See With Mine”

January 22, 2018 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Seeing isn’t a simple thing. It often takes another person’s eyes to help us understand something in a new way. This is how Leo Hurwitz uses his eyes and camera in his The Art of Seeing series with its three films, Light And The City, Discovery In A Landscape, and This Island. In these films, …

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THE ART OF SEEING 1968 – 1970
DISCOVERY IN A LANDSCAPE
“I Will Look With Your Eyes
You Will See With Mine”
Baby Driver Want to Change? Then Stop Running from the Past

BABY DRIVER
Want to Change?
Then Stop Running From the Past

October 12, 2017 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Baby (Ansel Elgort) wants to change, but … stop running? That’s easier said than done. Especially if you’re a sweet, loving, sensitive kid (that’s Baby in Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver), whose cruel dad is responsible for your mom dying as you sit helplessly watching. What do you do with those terrifying memories? You grow up …

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Want to Change?
Then Stop Running From the Past
Mad Men Season 7 Finale It's The Real Thing 4 Ways We'd See A Changed Don

MAD MEN Season 7 Finale
It’s The Real Thing
4 Ways We’d See A Changed Don

June 2, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

We’re left to wonder: what will become of Don Draper (Jon Hamm)? As Coca Cola’s hilltop jingle ends Mad Men Season 7 Finale, we have questions that don’t have answers. Has Don changed? Or, is he just the quintessential ad man – a man who escapes into his stories because they’re better than his personal …

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It’s The Real Thing
4 Ways We’d See A Changed Don
Mad Men Season 7 Finale Is Therapy For Don Esalen Style Enough?

MAD MEN Season 7 Finale
Therapy For Don Esalen Style
Is It Enough?

May 19, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Mad Men Season 7 Finale takes Don Draper (Jon Hamm) to the ultimate darkness of the soul, only to end up … Where? It seems a tragic cosmic joke to leave the Draper – Francis family the only ones with loose ends. Don might be back on his game, conjuring up the world’s greatest Coca-Cola …

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Therapy For Don Esalen Style
Is It Enough?
Mad Men Season 7 Episode 10 4 Clues Don Draper Just Might Make It

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 10
4 Clues Why Don Draper
Just Might Make It

April 21, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Don Draper (Jon Hamm) is finally beginning to face how much his past lives inside him in Mad Men Season 7 Episode 10. Plus, all the mistakes he’s made and the ways he’s sabotaged love because of it. At least it sure seems that way. When he says to Johnny Mathis in episode 10, Forecast: “Take responsibility …

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4 Clues Why Don Draper
Just Might Make It
Mad Men Season 7 Episode 8 Two Sides of Don Draper Which One Will Win?

MAD MEN Season 7 Episode 8
Two Sides Of Don Draper
Which One Will Win In The End?

April 14, 2015 by Dr. Sandra E. Cohen

Don Draper’s (Jon Hamm) on the chase again in Season 7, Episode 8, but this time he seems different. So is Diana (Elizabeth Reaser). Don’s more sensitive than he’s been with any woman in the past. But, Diana: she’s like the old Don running from his past, the one we’ve known for 7 Seasons. Then …

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Two Sides Of Don Draper
Which One Will Win In The End?
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