TV and Film

Do Sarah Brady’s allegations about Jonah Hill undermine the implicit message of Stutz, his documentary about therapy? Read more

A bold new TV series captures the raw reality of couples therapy—for both clients and therapists. Read more

On the handful of channels that constituted the still-primitive medium that was television in the 1950s and early ’60s—before talk shows metastasized... Read more

When TV finally came, in the early '50s, the world it brought into our living rooms was black and white, and dumbed way down. Newsmen now had faces, and, as... Read more

What separates screen actors who remain enshrined in our memory from those who just momentarily catch our eye? Read more

If you're like me, you've noticed that movies don't make as much sense as they used to. Nevertheless, I suspect that there's still an audience somewhere out... Read more

The Coen brothers specialize in redefining the rules of whatever movie genre they happen to be subverting. Read more

Two hugely successful films, released on the same weekend this summer, revealed the flip side of the Hollywood experience. Read more

The 43-episode HBO series In Treatment held up a mirror to our profession, immersing viewers in the ebb and flow of the psychotherapy process, and revealing... Read more

Part of the magic of Hollywood movies is that the larger-than-life heroes and heroines up there on the screen don't age and wither and deteriorate like the... Read more

Some comedies about unwed motherhood reveal deeper truths about those subjects we can laugh about and those we can't. Read more

American Gangster, Michael Clayton, and 3:10 to Yuma. Our complex relationship with our screen idols is at the root of the Hollywood movie experience. Read more

Becoming Jane and Hairspray. Evoking a great movie tradition of the past, this summer, Fred and Ginger met both Jane Austen and the Linblad family. Read more

A Mighty Heart, Away from Her, and Evening. It takes courage to live life, and to live with the life you chose. Read more

As we go through our lifetime metamorphoses, we adapt to those whom we like and hate, envy and fear. We fall in and out of love, and emulate and identify with... Read more

Dissecting the fantasy of heroism. Read more

A new generation of filmmakers is taking us beyond the Americocentric world of mainstream cinema. Read more

One of his biographers, Patrick McGilligan, insists that "marijuana shaped [Robert Altman]'s storytelling. Read more

Pittman reviews the controversial film Brokeback Mountain, directed by Ang Lee, from a psychotherapist's point of view, discussing how it dissects the... Read more

I wonder what the [Ingmar Bergman] of today would think of [Bill Murray]'s aging Don Juan, who plays for comic effect the loneliness that's so obsessed... Read more

I don't know if [Kevin Costner]'s loose-limbed approach would relieve the tension in L.A. But somehow he has such a fully developed emotional immune system... Read more

The camera moves in so close on each of the characters that we feel we can read their minds. Such is the skill with which this remarkable film has been acted... Read more

From the May/June 1997 issue I have just completed my first, and very likely my last, close encounter with the fierce business that has occupied my... Read more

Two new Hollywood bits bring out the beast in us Read more

From the May/June 1994 issue NOW THAT THE EXPIRATION DATES HAVE PASSED ON OUR familiar fables and fairy tales about gender, it is time to create some new... Read more

Wharton set her story in 1870, in the New York of her youth, a time that spawned heroines bursting the bounds of societal restraint and struggling to be free... Read more