This week on Layers of Adaptation Theatre is Freud’s Last Session (now on Netflix), a movie based on a stage production (of the same title) based on a book (The Question of God by Armand Nicholi) ...
Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis probably never met. What the stage-based film presupposes is: Maybe they did? By Ben Kenigsberg When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our ...
Matthew Brown's film, which had its world premiere at AFI Fest, is an adaptation of an off-Broadway play centering on an imagined exchange between Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis. By Stephen Farber ...
Director Matthew Brown indulges an intellectual fantasy — a bit too stiffly, alas — imagining a meeting between C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud at the dying neurologist’s London home. Sometimes a cigar ...
In Freud’s Last Session, the 86-year-old actor gives an energetic performance that saves this talky, stagey film. By David Sexton Nobody’s better at playing the big ’uns than Anthony Hopkins. The ...
Don’t expect the new German/Austrian series Freud to be a biography of the great Sigmund Freud. No, this series makes him more into a Viennese Sherlock Holmes, with many of the fictional detective’s ...
A BIOGRAPHY concerning the life and times of Sigmund Freud comes with just a small dose of irony. For Freud believed that biography itself was a form of repression and a mechanism of defence. Without ...
In the spring of 1938, the Nazis were circling like vultures around Berggasse 19, the Vienna home of Sigmund Freud. The German Reich had annexed Austria on March 13th, and Hitler paraded through ...