Calling all ice skating fans…Olympians and megastars in the sport are on ABC today! The family-friendly Musselman’s Apple Sauce Family Skating Tribute special is all about ice skating and features the best in the sport. Hosted by Olympic gold-medalist Kristi Yamaguchi and three-time U.S. Champion Michael Weiss, the event features Nancy Kerrigan, Scott Hamilton, Paul Wylie, Kurt Browning, Todd Eldredge, Sinead Kerr-Marshall & John Kerr, Silvia Fontana & John Zimmerman, and Jodeyne Higgins & Sean Rice, performing alongside their hard-working and talented children. Note: There will also be a musical performance by country music duo Dan + Shay. Olympian Kerrigan talked...read more...
- 11/27/2016
- by April Neale
- Monsters and Critics
Sure, Sunday tends to be overcrowded with high-end TV (like "Downton Abbey," returning to PBS this week), but what to watch the rest of the time? Every Monday, we bring you five noteworthy highlights from the other six days of the week. "In Memoriam" Monday, December 30th at 8pm on TCM Turner Classic Movies' year-end "In Memoriam" tribute is a salute to those who passed who weren't already honored during the year. The night begins with the 1941 Deanna Durbin musical "It Started with Eve" at 8pm, followed by Annette Funicello's 1964 "Bikini Beach" at 9:45pm. Eileen Brennan stars in Neil Simon's 1978 "The Cheap Detective" at 11:30pm, while Jonathan Winters plays a pair of brothers in 1965 black comedy "The Loved One" at 1:15am. Karen Black received an Oscar nomination for her performance in 1970's "Five Easy Pieces" at 3:30am, while Julie Harris is terrific in 1955's...
- 12/30/2013
- by Alison Willmore
- Indiewire
Chicago – In the latest HollywoodChicago.com Hookup: Film with our unique social giveaway technology, we have 25 pairs of classic movie passes up for grabs to see 1958’s “South Pacific” with Mitzi Gaynor in person! For one night only, Mitzi Gaynor will be joined by film historian and author Leonard Maltin.
“South Pacific” comes to Chicago for one night only as part of Turner Classic Movies’ “Road to Hollywood” tour. The film also stars Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Russ Brown, Jack Mullaney, Ken Clark, Floyd Simmons, Candace Lee and Warren Hsieh from director Joshua Logan and writers Paul Osborn and Richard Rodgers.
To win your free “South Pacific” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This special showing is on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago. The more social actions you complete,...
“South Pacific” comes to Chicago for one night only as part of Turner Classic Movies’ “Road to Hollywood” tour. The film also stars Rossano Brazzi, John Kerr, Ray Walston, Juanita Hall, France Nuyen, Russ Brown, Jack Mullaney, Ken Clark, Floyd Simmons, Candace Lee and Warren Hsieh from director Joshua Logan and writers Paul Osborn and Richard Rodgers.
To win your free “South Pacific” passes courtesy of HollywoodChicago.com, just get interactive with our unique Hookup technology below. That’s it! This special showing is on Tuesday, March 19, 2013 at 7:30 p.m. at the historic Music Box Theatre in Chicago. The more social actions you complete,...
- 3/16/2013
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Stage and screen actor John Kerr died February 2, at age 81, from heart failure, according to the Associated Press. Kerr starred in the movies "South Pacific," and "The Pit and the Pendulum." One role Kerr did not play was Charles Lindbergh, as he turned down the role in "The Spirit of St. Louis," due to his lack of respect for Lindbergh's early support of the Nazi regime. The role eventually went to James Stewart.
His best known work was on the stage, though, as a prep school student, bullied after being suspected as a homosexual, in the 1953 Broadway production, "Tea and Sympathy." The role won Kerr a Tony Award in 1954, and he went on to reprise the role in a film version of the play in 1956.
Having attended Harvard, and UCLA Law School, Kerr also played a district attorney in the 1960s on TV's "Peyton Place." When he retired from show business,...
His best known work was on the stage, though, as a prep school student, bullied after being suspected as a homosexual, in the 1953 Broadway production, "Tea and Sympathy." The role won Kerr a Tony Award in 1954, and he went on to reprise the role in a film version of the play in 1956.
Having attended Harvard, and UCLA Law School, Kerr also played a district attorney in the 1960s on TV's "Peyton Place." When he retired from show business,...
- 2/12/2013
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
John Kerr is retiring after 56 years in radio
Radio 2Ue’s weekend midnight to dawn presenter John Kerr will sign off on his final program at 5.30am Monday after 56 years in radio.
Kerr has held the spot for the past 18 years, and will be farewelled by staff at a boardroom celebration at 2Ue this afternoon.
Station boss Chris Parker said Kerr had worked across metropolitan and regional markets during his career, and paid tribute to his legacy.
“John’s had a career spanning five decades – his record speaks for itself,” Parker said.
Kerr will retire to the Gold Coast.
His replacement will be John Cadogan, the station’s motoring correspondent and fill in host on the same shift.
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Radio 2Ue’s weekend midnight to dawn presenter John Kerr will sign off on his final program at 5.30am Monday after 56 years in radio.
Kerr has held the spot for the past 18 years, and will be farewelled by staff at a boardroom celebration at 2Ue this afternoon.
Station boss Chris Parker said Kerr had worked across metropolitan and regional markets during his career, and paid tribute to his legacy.
“John’s had a career spanning five decades – his record speaks for itself,” Parker said.
Kerr will retire to the Gold Coast.
His replacement will be John Cadogan, the station’s motoring correspondent and fill in host on the same shift.
The post Radio legend John Kerr to retire from 2Ue’s midnight to dawn weekend shift appeared first on mUmBRELLA.
- 1/25/2013
- by Marcus Casey
- Encore Magazine
John Kerr, who has died aged 94, was the much-loved equestrian correspondent of the Guardian for 30 years. Having tentatively begun his journalistic career on the local paper in Bideford, Devon, he also wrote for the Irish Times, spending long evenings manning the paper's London office.
John was a kind and unassuming man, who hated the limelight and yet was instantly recognisable in any press room. He was the only journalist I knew who preferred to write copy on a large, manual typewriter while the rest of us tapped away on laptops. He was also known for his sturdy plastic bags which contained (among other things) packets of biscuits and collections of newspaper cuttings that his friends might find amusing, informative or helpful.
John's first love was the cinema. His encyclopedic knowledge of films was nurtured during his schooldays on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, where his father was manager of a cinema.
John was a kind and unassuming man, who hated the limelight and yet was instantly recognisable in any press room. He was the only journalist I knew who preferred to write copy on a large, manual typewriter while the rest of us tapped away on laptops. He was also known for his sturdy plastic bags which contained (among other things) packets of biscuits and collections of newspaper cuttings that his friends might find amusing, informative or helpful.
John's first love was the cinema. His encyclopedic knowledge of films was nurtured during his schooldays on Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, where his father was manager of a cinema.
- 9/16/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
A Dangerous Method
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel | Written by Christopher Hampton | Directed by David Cronenberg
The turn-of-the-century meeting of two historically significant minds, Doctors Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, may not seem at first glance like a film David Cronenberg was likely to have made. Two psychoanalysts sitting in rooms and talking for 90 minutes? Surely this is a odd path for the Baron of Blood to take. Yet from the opening scene alone – Keira Knightley being held, screaming and contorted, in the back of a car – it’s easy to tell that A Dangerous Method is most definitely a Cronenberg movie.
Knightley plays Sabina Spielrein, the daughter of a wealthy Russian family suffering from hysteria, an ugly and debilitating impairment which manifests itself in the aforementioned contortions, sent to the Swiss hospital Jung (Fassbender) is in residence at. Like Jung taking Spielrein on as his patient,...
Stars: Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley, Sarah Gadon, Vincent Cassel | Written by Christopher Hampton | Directed by David Cronenberg
The turn-of-the-century meeting of two historically significant minds, Doctors Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, may not seem at first glance like a film David Cronenberg was likely to have made. Two psychoanalysts sitting in rooms and talking for 90 minutes? Surely this is a odd path for the Baron of Blood to take. Yet from the opening scene alone – Keira Knightley being held, screaming and contorted, in the back of a car – it’s easy to tell that A Dangerous Method is most definitely a Cronenberg movie.
Knightley plays Sabina Spielrein, the daughter of a wealthy Russian family suffering from hysteria, an ugly and debilitating impairment which manifests itself in the aforementioned contortions, sent to the Swiss hospital Jung (Fassbender) is in residence at. Like Jung taking Spielrein on as his patient,...
- 6/24/2012
- by Mark Allen
- Nerdly
"The Descendants," written by Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash based on the novel by Kaui Hart Hemmings was the big winner at the 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. Founded by the Friends of the USC Libraries, the award honors the author(s) and screenwriter(s) of the year's best motion picture adapted from a printed work. So Oscar fans take note, this is a great predictor of the Best Adapted Screenplay category.
According to the USC Award guidelines, "the Scripter Award selection committee is comprised of Writers Guild of America members, Academy Award-winning and -nominated screenwriters, authors, film industry executives, faculty, and selected members of the board of the Friends of the USC Libraries."
We'll see if the Writers Guild Awards will agree! WGA winners will be announced later tonight!
Here's the complete list of nominees of the 24th USC Scripter Awards! To visit other award-giving bodies,...
According to the USC Award guidelines, "the Scripter Award selection committee is comprised of Writers Guild of America members, Academy Award-winning and -nominated screenwriters, authors, film industry executives, faculty, and selected members of the board of the Friends of the USC Libraries."
We'll see if the Writers Guild Awards will agree! WGA winners will be announced later tonight!
Here's the complete list of nominees of the 24th USC Scripter Awards! To visit other award-giving bodies,...
- 2/19/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The Descendants screenwriters Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash as well as author Kaui Hart Hemmings, who wrote the book the Fox Searchlight drama is based on, won the 24th annual USC Libraries Scripter Award. The Scripters, which recognize the author and scribes of a produced literary work-to-film adaptation, were held at a gala ceremony Saturday night at USC. The Descendants team beat out the writers behind A Dangerous Method (screenwriter Christopher Hampton and author John Kerr), Jane Eyre (scribe Moira Buffini and author Charlotte Bronte), Moneyball (screenwriters Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin and Stan Chervin and author Michael Lewis),
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- 2/18/2012
- by Borys Kit
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
David Cronenberg's film about the pioneers of psychoanalysis digs deep into real events, but stretches the truth with its spanking scenes and Hollywood version of Sabina Spielrein
A Dangerous Method (2012)
Director: David Cronenberg
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: C
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were pioneers of psychoanalysis. In the 1970s and 1980s, papers discovered in Geneva revealed the extent to which Jung was involved with a patient, Sabina Spielrein, who herself became a noteworthy psychoanalyst.
Mental health
Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) is working at a clinic in Switzerland when a young Russian woman, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) is brought in, screaming and writhing hysterically. Spielrein's problems are swiftly traced to sexual fixations on being beaten by her father and on defecation. Gross, but true. It's also true that, when she calmed down a bit, she turned out to have a brilliant analytical mind. Meanwhile, Jung meets his idol,...
A Dangerous Method (2012)
Director: David Cronenberg
Entertainment grade: B
History grade: C
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were pioneers of psychoanalysis. In the 1970s and 1980s, papers discovered in Geneva revealed the extent to which Jung was involved with a patient, Sabina Spielrein, who herself became a noteworthy psychoanalyst.
Mental health
Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) is working at a clinic in Switzerland when a young Russian woman, Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) is brought in, screaming and writhing hysterically. Spielrein's problems are swiftly traced to sexual fixations on being beaten by her father and on defecation. Gross, but true. It's also true that, when she calmed down a bit, she turned out to have a brilliant analytical mind. Meanwhile, Jung meets his idol,...
- 2/16/2012
- by Alex von Tunzelmann
- The Guardian - Film News
Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: March 27, 2012
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The acclaimed drama movie A Dangerous Method follows the true story of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, his colleague Carl Jung and a disturbed patient who challenged their minds and ethics.
The film packs a punch in front of and behind the camera, directed by David Cronenberg (A History of Violence), written by Academy Award-winning Christopher Hampton (Atonement) and starring Viggo Mortensen (The Road) as Freud, Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) as Jung and Keira Knightley (London Boulevard) as their patient Sabina Spielrein, plus Vincent Cassel (Black Swan).
Based on a book by John Kerr, A Dangerous Method was nominated for a Golden Globe for Mortensen in the Best Supporting Actor category. The film was released in a limited number of theaters, grossing $4.6 million.
Although critics liked the biography movie, rewarding it with a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes,...
Price: DVD $30.99, Blu-ray $35.99
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
The acclaimed drama movie A Dangerous Method follows the true story of renowned psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud, his colleague Carl Jung and a disturbed patient who challenged their minds and ethics.
The film packs a punch in front of and behind the camera, directed by David Cronenberg (A History of Violence), written by Academy Award-winning Christopher Hampton (Atonement) and starring Viggo Mortensen (The Road) as Freud, Michael Fassbender (X-Men: First Class) as Jung and Keira Knightley (London Boulevard) as their patient Sabina Spielrein, plus Vincent Cassel (Black Swan).
Based on a book by John Kerr, A Dangerous Method was nominated for a Golden Globe for Mortensen in the Best Supporting Actor category. The film was released in a limited number of theaters, grossing $4.6 million.
Although critics liked the biography movie, rewarding it with a 77% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes,...
- 2/13/2012
- by Sam
- Disc Dish
David Cronenberg analyses the pioneering work of Jung and Freud in this engrossing and thought-provoking drama
David Cronenberg has long been recognised as a prime exponent of the psychological thrillers known as body horror movies, stories of terror involving parasites, metamorphoses, diseases, decomposition and physical wounds, such as Shivers, Videodrome, Naked Lunch and his version of The Fly. Now, as he approaches 70, an enfant terrible turned cinematic elder statesman operating from the Canadian fringe of the cultural mainstream, he has stood back from the visceral fray.
His engrossing, admirably acted new film, A Dangerous Method, takes an objective, historical look at the early days of psychoanalysis and the people, notably Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, who provided us with the conceptual framework and language for discussing the phenomena and experiences he has been dramatising over the past 40 years.
Helping him in this enterprise is the British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton,...
David Cronenberg has long been recognised as a prime exponent of the psychological thrillers known as body horror movies, stories of terror involving parasites, metamorphoses, diseases, decomposition and physical wounds, such as Shivers, Videodrome, Naked Lunch and his version of The Fly. Now, as he approaches 70, an enfant terrible turned cinematic elder statesman operating from the Canadian fringe of the cultural mainstream, he has stood back from the visceral fray.
His engrossing, admirably acted new film, A Dangerous Method, takes an objective, historical look at the early days of psychoanalysis and the people, notably Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, who provided us with the conceptual framework and language for discussing the phenomena and experiences he has been dramatising over the past 40 years.
Helping him in this enterprise is the British playwright and screenwriter Christopher Hampton,...
- 2/12/2012
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Provocative Canadian director David Cronenberg is renowned for delving head first into the darkest recesses of our fears and deep seated desires. His career to date has resulted in a back catalogue of psychologically-probing pieces which constantly test his audiences and have garnered him some much deserved critical acclaim - making him the perfect candidate to direct A Dangerous Method (2011), an adaptation of Christopher Hampton's 2002 play The Talking Cure and John Kerr's 1993 book, A Most Dangerous Method.
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- 2/8/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
A Dangerous Method Directed by: David Cronenberg Written by: Christopher Hampton (screenplay) and John Kerr (book) Starring: Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Vincent Cassel David Cronenberg has always been drawn to psychologically challenging material, especially when it has to do with breaking societal taboos. Flip through his filmography (Videodrome, The Fly, Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, Crash) and you’ll see some seriously depraved stuff. He has mellowed substantially in recent years (A History of Violence, Eastern Promises), but thankfully, he still has an appetite for the kinky stuff. A Dangerous Method tells the somewhat sordid tale of the birth of psychoanalysis, but it’s fairly restrained for a Cronenberg film. No envelope pushing here, just a fascinating look at a trio of psychiatrists who laid the framework for the modern practice of psychiatry. Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) is delivered by carriage to the doorstep of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender...
- 1/27/2012
- by Shannon
- FilmJunk
To celebrate the release of ‘A Dangerous Method’ on 10th February we have 5 copies of John Kerr’s novel to give away. A Dangerous Method is directed by David Cronenberg and stars Michael Fassbender, Viggo Mortensen and Keira Knightley.
On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them.
Sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought.
Click below to see the question and the entry form.
On the eve of World War I, Zurich and Vienna are the setting for a dark tale of sexual and intellectual discovery. Drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method explores the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud and Sabina Spielrein, the beautiful but disturbed young woman who comes between them.
Sensuality, ambition and deceit set the scene for the pivotal moment when Jung, Freud and Sabina come together and split apart, forever changing the face of modern thought.
Click below to see the question and the entry form.
- 1/19/2012
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Psychoanalysis is arguably still as polarizing in today.s society as it was a century ago when Sigmund Freud first conceived it. The very idea of all human neurosis being derived from a primal sexual foundation has controversy written all over it, which is what makes it such a fitting topic for David Cronenberg. Cronenberg.s career has spanned from Rabid (1977) to A History Of Violence (2005) and most vividly with Videodrome (1983) and Naked Lunch (1991) . all of these films have one thing in common; sexually charged, taboo subject matter.
A Dangerous Method tells the story of Carl Jung, a protégé of Freud.s, and his triangular relationship with him and patient Sabina Spielrein during the emergence of psychoanalysis. Jung and Sabina go through a sort of symbiotic metamorphosis. Cronenberg focuses on the shift in character that occurs in Jung, which occurs in conjunction with his treatment of Sabina. They.re relation...
A Dangerous Method tells the story of Carl Jung, a protégé of Freud.s, and his triangular relationship with him and patient Sabina Spielrein during the emergence of psychoanalysis. Jung and Sabina go through a sort of symbiotic metamorphosis. Cronenberg focuses on the shift in character that occurs in Jung, which occurs in conjunction with his treatment of Sabina. They.re relation...
- 1/13/2012
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Viggo Mortensen, A Dangerous Method The 2012 finalists for the USC Scripter Awards, honoring both screenwriters and the original authors of adapted screenplays, are the following: Christopher Hampton for A Dangerous Method, adapted from John Kerr's nonfiction book A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein and Hampton's own 2002 stage play The Talking Cure; Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash for The Descendants, adapted from Kaui Hart Hemmings’ novel (itself an expansion of her short story “The Minor Wars”); Moira Buffini for Jane Eyre, adapted from Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel; Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin for Moneyball, from Michael Lewis’ book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game; Bridget O'Connor and Peter Straughan for their adaptation of John le Carré's thriller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Notably absent from the Scripter Award shortlist are Steven Spielberg's War Horse (adapted by Lee Hall and,...
- 1/12/2012
- by Steve Montgomery
- Alt Film Guide
The USC Libraries Scripter Award, which honors "the screenwriter(s) of the year's most accomplished cinematic adaptation as well as the author(s) of the written work upon which the screenplay is based," have announced their 2011 nominees. The nominees are: "A Dangerous Method" Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton Source material: John Kerr's nonfiction book "A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein" and Hampton's 2002 stage play "The Talking Cure" "The Descendants" Screenwriters: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, and Jim Rash Source material: Kaui Hart Hemmings' novel "The Descendants" and her short story "The Minor Wars" "Jane Eyre" Screenwriter: Moira Buffini Source material: Charlotte Brontë's novel "Jane Eyre" "Moneyball" Screenwriters: Steven Zaillian, Aaron Sorkin, and Stan Chervin ...
- 1/12/2012
- Indiewire
Given its fascinating subject matter -- the friendship, collaboration and often bitter rivalry between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung -- I had high hopes for A Dangerous Method.
After all, David Cronenberg's elegant period piece has the underpinnings of first-rate Oscar bait. Aside from its sexy true story of love, rivalry and fetishes (based on a well reviewed nonfiction book by clinical psychologist and historian John Kerr), A Dangerous Method also has a first-rate cast: Viggo Mortensen as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, a young woman who was Jung's patient and lover as well as Freud's colleague and confidante.
But in spite of this pedigree, I'm ambivalent about the end result. Despite its sometimes startling sexuality, insights about the human mind, witty dialogue, strong performances (with one exception I'll get into later) and flawless attention to period detail, A Dangerous Method is surprisingly emotionally flat and languidly paced.
After all, David Cronenberg's elegant period piece has the underpinnings of first-rate Oscar bait. Aside from its sexy true story of love, rivalry and fetishes (based on a well reviewed nonfiction book by clinical psychologist and historian John Kerr), A Dangerous Method also has a first-rate cast: Viggo Mortensen as Freud, Michael Fassbender as Jung and Keira Knightley as Sabina Spielrein, a young woman who was Jung's patient and lover as well as Freud's colleague and confidante.
But in spite of this pedigree, I'm ambivalent about the end result. Despite its sometimes startling sexuality, insights about the human mind, witty dialogue, strong performances (with one exception I'll get into later) and flawless attention to period detail, A Dangerous Method is surprisingly emotionally flat and languidly paced.
- 12/23/2011
- by Don Clinchy
- Slackerwood
David Cronenberg and Viggo Mortensen on the set of A Dangerous Method
When I learned that I would have 15 minutes to talk with David Cronenberg about his latest film A Dangerous Method, I was elated…and then alarmed. A Dangerous Method is a complex film adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play, The Talking Cure which was, itself, originally a screenplay based on John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method. See, it’s complicated already and we’re only talking about the source material. A Dangerous Method is the fictional account of a true story: a psychiatrist and his young mentor become great friends and colleagues only to see their great bond turn to bitter rivalry. And oh yes, the psychiatrist and his mentor are Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). The two most renowned figures in the history of psychiatry. Their rift begins over Jung’s affair with a young patient,...
When I learned that I would have 15 minutes to talk with David Cronenberg about his latest film A Dangerous Method, I was elated…and then alarmed. A Dangerous Method is a complex film adaptation of Christopher Hampton’s play, The Talking Cure which was, itself, originally a screenplay based on John Kerr’s book A Most Dangerous Method. See, it’s complicated already and we’re only talking about the source material. A Dangerous Method is the fictional account of a true story: a psychiatrist and his young mentor become great friends and colleagues only to see their great bond turn to bitter rivalry. And oh yes, the psychiatrist and his mentor are Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). The two most renowned figures in the history of psychiatry. Their rift begins over Jung’s affair with a young patient,...
- 11/28/2011
- by Film Independent
- Film Independent
A Dangerous Method
Written by Christopher Hampton
Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland, 2011
David Cronenberg’s first film since 2007′s uneven mob thriller Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method seems destined to confound and divide nearly both seasoned fans and casual moviegoers. Considerably more austere and literary than any of his previous work, while retaining his intense interest in the human animal, Method is at once slyly subversive and carefully measured in its approach to both theme and historicity.
Method, which spans roughly a decade, opens in 1904 Vienna, where budding psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) has agreed to take on Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as a patient in order to test a psychoanalytic technique invented but apparently heretofore untried by Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, effortlessly devouring scenery). Spielrein suffers from intense panic attacks that cause her body and face to contort wildly, and render her speech nearly incomprehensible. By employing Freud’s methods,...
Written by Christopher Hampton
Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland, 2011
David Cronenberg’s first film since 2007′s uneven mob thriller Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method seems destined to confound and divide nearly both seasoned fans and casual moviegoers. Considerably more austere and literary than any of his previous work, while retaining his intense interest in the human animal, Method is at once slyly subversive and carefully measured in its approach to both theme and historicity.
Method, which spans roughly a decade, opens in 1904 Vienna, where budding psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) has agreed to take on Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as a patient in order to test a psychoanalytic technique invented but apparently heretofore untried by Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, effortlessly devouring scenery). Spielrein suffers from intense panic attacks that cause her body and face to contort wildly, and render her speech nearly incomprehensible. By employing Freud’s methods,...
- 11/26/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
"'They were experimenting on themselves,' says David Cronenberg, with no small amount of satisfaction, about the psychoanalytic all-stars of his superb new film, A Dangerous Method." Nicolas Rapold's met him and writes up an interview-slash-review for the Voice. "It's the dawn of the 20th century, and we are present for the messy birth of psychoanalysis as handsome, ambitious Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) puts into practice the radical ideas of his outspoken mentor, Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), and takes extra special care of his first talking-cure patient, the brilliant, hot, hysterical Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley). Trysts with Spielrein and rifts with Freud follow, in a meticulous, electric costume drama of adultery and rivalry, shot through with self-examination and the rippling risks of acknowledging one's own desire."
But Andrew Hultkrans, writing for Artforum, prefers the early scary ones: "The arc of David Cronenberg's career as a director mirrors that of...
But Andrew Hultkrans, writing for Artforum, prefers the early scary ones: "The arc of David Cronenberg's career as a director mirrors that of...
- 11/23/2011
- MUBI
I tend to enjoy talky films, but said films run into trouble when what's being said isn't all that interesting. Tracing a nine year relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is a mixture of letter-writing and long-winded conversations between the two men and the woman wedged between them. There are interesting facets to the story and it's expertly told, but for the most part I found it all to be rather inconsequential.
Beginning in 1904 in Switzerland, a carriage is bringing a young Russian girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) to a Swiss mental hospital near Zurich where she will soon become the patient of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). As Sabina, Knightley struggles for each word early on, freakishly jutting her chin in such a way you begin to think her lower jaw may soon become detached and contorting her hands...
Beginning in 1904 in Switzerland, a carriage is bringing a young Russian girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) to a Swiss mental hospital near Zurich where she will soon become the patient of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). As Sabina, Knightley struggles for each word early on, freakishly jutting her chin in such a way you begin to think her lower jaw may soon become detached and contorting her hands...
- 11/23/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Originally published in the Fall 2011 issue. David Cronenberg is a Tribute honoree at this year’s Gotham Independent Film Awards. A Dangerous Method opens in theaters Nov. 23.
David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method is a period piece dealing with the personal and historical relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly). It’s a work that in some ways feels out of place in the Canadian filmmaker’s filmography, and in other ways, perfectly Cronenbergian. The screenplay by Christopher Hampton (who also penned a stage play from which this was developed) is meticulously stitched together from volumes of actual correspondence, case histories and journalistic reports, as well as from John Kerr’s 1994 book, A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, & Sabina Spielrein. Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna and Zurich, the drama unfolds with an elegant and formal finish that feels...
David Cronenberg’s new film A Dangerous Method is a period piece dealing with the personal and historical relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly). It’s a work that in some ways feels out of place in the Canadian filmmaker’s filmography, and in other ways, perfectly Cronenbergian. The screenplay by Christopher Hampton (who also penned a stage play from which this was developed) is meticulously stitched together from volumes of actual correspondence, case histories and journalistic reports, as well as from John Kerr’s 1994 book, A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, & Sabina Spielrein. Set in turn-of-the-century Vienna and Zurich, the drama unfolds with an elegant and formal finish that feels...
- 11/22/2011
- by Peter Bowen
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Psychoanalysis is arguably still as polarizing in today.s society as it was a century ago when Sigmund Freud first conceived it. The very idea of all human neurosis being derived from a primal sexual foundation has controversy written all over it, which is what makes it such a fitting topic for David Cronenberg. Cronenberg.s career has spanned from Rabid (1977) to A History Of Violence (2005) and most vividly with Videodrome (1983) and Naked Lunch (1991) . all of these films have one thing in common; sexually charged, taboo subject matter.
A Dangerous Method tells the story of Carl Jung, a protégé of Freud.s, and his triangular relationship with him and patient Sabina Spielrein during the emergence of psychoanalysis. Jung and Sabina go through a sort of symbiotic metamorphosis. Cronenberg focuses on the shift in character that occurs in Jung, which occurs in conjunction with his treatment of Sabina. They.re relation...
A Dangerous Method tells the story of Carl Jung, a protégé of Freud.s, and his triangular relationship with him and patient Sabina Spielrein during the emergence of psychoanalysis. Jung and Sabina go through a sort of symbiotic metamorphosis. Cronenberg focuses on the shift in character that occurs in Jung, which occurs in conjunction with his treatment of Sabina. They.re relation...
- 11/12/2011
- by Travis Keune
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Clips and images from David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen. The ever-impressive David Cronenberg seems to be delivering his best work to date this time around with the Sony Pictures Classics' drama which finds venues on. This one has Oscars written all over it. It's always a given these days to find Viggo Mortensen in a Cronenberg flick, after working together in A History of Violence and Eastern Promises; the last of which also includes Vincent Cassell who completes the Dangerous Method star-packed cast. Pic is scripted by Christopher Hamptson, based on the stage play "The Talking Cure" by Hampton and the book "A Most Dangerous Method" by John Kerr. Jeremy Thomas produces...
- 10/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Clips and images from David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, starring Keira Knightley, Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen. The ever-impressive David Cronenberg seems to be delivering his best work to date this time around with the Sony Pictures Classics' drama which finds venues on. This one has Oscars written all over it. It's always a given these days to find Viggo Mortensen in a Cronenberg flick, after working together in A History of Violence and Eastern Promises; the last of which also includes Vincent Cassell who completes the Dangerous Method star-packed cast. Pic is scripted by Christopher Hamptson, based on the stage play "The Talking Cure" by Hampton and the book "A Most Dangerous Method" by John Kerr. Jeremy Thomas produces...
- 10/24/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Alexandra Cheney
Fortunately for David Cronenberg the late 1800s was a time of extensive letter writing. For his newest film, “A Dangerous Method,” Cronenberg tackled the birth of psychoanalysis, specifically through the relationship between Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud.
After a screening at the New York Film Festival, Cronenberg sat down with Michael Fassbender, (who played Jung) as well as the screenwriter Christopher Hampton to talk about the film.
Adapted by Hampton from his earlier stage...
Fortunately for David Cronenberg the late 1800s was a time of extensive letter writing. For his newest film, “A Dangerous Method,” Cronenberg tackled the birth of psychoanalysis, specifically through the relationship between Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud.
After a screening at the New York Film Festival, Cronenberg sat down with Michael Fassbender, (who played Jung) as well as the screenwriter Christopher Hampton to talk about the film.
Adapted by Hampton from his earlier stage...
- 10/10/2011
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
"Repression runs rampant in A Dangerous Method, with sexual and romantic desires subsumed beneath societal and ethical constructs in a manner echoed by David Cronenberg's expertly composed direction," begins Nick Schager in Slant. "For his tale of the intellectual relationship — and, later, battle — between Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) and his idol/mentor Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Cronenberg employs a cool, refined period-décor formalism, his camera movements as deliberate as his characters' external appearances are polished and restrained, and yet his placement of figures within his frame — always slyly conveying their shifting dominator/subjugated dynamics — boast the same electric charge as his subjects' roiling thoughts and passions. Despite its turn-of-the-century setting and visual/tonal modesty, however, Cronenberg's focus remains, as always, on issues of mind/body invasion, corruption, and rebirth, which here revolves around Jung's increasingly knotty relationship with patient Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley), who, over the course of the next decade,...
- 10/5/2011
- MUBI
For the month of October, New York is where it appears to be happening for cinema, as the 49th New York Film Festival gets under way. Beginning September 30, this year's slate offers features from directors such as Roman Polanski, Lars von Trier, David Cronenberg, Pedro Almodovar, the Dardenne Brothers and Alexander Payne. As with previous years, many of these films have already debuted at film festivals in Cannes, Venice and Toronto. That also makes them susceptible to piracy and I'm sorry to say that a good number of these films are already available as illegal downloads online. Let's face it, unless you're a New Yorker or true cinephile, the average moviegoer isn't going to pay out extravagant prices to see a slate of films like this. But there are some good films to be found here and although many of them have yet to be released or find distribution, I...
- 10/3/2011
- LRMonline.com
There are many expectations fans of director David Cronenberg have embraced when he makes a new movie and his ability to surprise is definitely one of them. Not surprises in terms of jump scares but more in the vein of not knowing what you’re going to get. One thing is certain, his work is never boring and is willing to go to dark places whether it be psychological (Dead Ringers), sexual (Crash), or spiritual (A History of Violence). Having said that, it’s my sad duty to report that the only surprise in his latest work, A Dangerous Method, is his ability to take an intriguing subject (sexual analysis) and make such a tame, limp movie. On paper, the thought of Viggo Mortensen as Sigmund Freud and Michael Fassbender as Carl Jung in a duel of wits and sexual psychosis sounds like a film lover’s dream. The actors are more than capable of going to...
- 9/15/2011
- by Marco Cerritos
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method (2011) - starring Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel and Kiera Knightley - is the long-awaited follow up to his excellent Russian Mafia yarn Eastern Promises (2007). Based on Academy Award-winning writer Christopher Hampton's stage play Taking the Cure and John Kerr's 1993 non-fiction book A Most Dangerous Method, Cronenberg returns to psychosexual territory with this examination of the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Mortensen), his prodigy Carl Jung (Fassbender) and Russian psychoanalyst Sabina Speilrein (Knightley).
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- 9/13/2011
- by Daniel Green
- CineVue
Michael Fassbender and Viggo Mortensen in A Dangerous Method
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I tend to enjoy talky films, but said films run into trouble when what's being said isn't all that interesting. Tracing a nine year relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is a mixture of letter-writing and long-winded conversations between the two men and the woman wedged between them. There are interesting facets to the story and it's expertly told, but for the most part I found it all to be rather inconsequential.
Beginning in 1904 in Switzerland, a carriage is bringing a young Russian girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) to a Swiss mental hospital near Zurich where she will soon become the patient of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). As Sabina, Knightley struggles for each word early on, freakishly jutting her chin in such a way you begin...
Photo: Sony Pictures Classics I tend to enjoy talky films, but said films run into trouble when what's being said isn't all that interesting. Tracing a nine year relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung, David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method is a mixture of letter-writing and long-winded conversations between the two men and the woman wedged between them. There are interesting facets to the story and it's expertly told, but for the most part I found it all to be rather inconsequential.
Beginning in 1904 in Switzerland, a carriage is bringing a young Russian girl by the name of Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) to a Swiss mental hospital near Zurich where she will soon become the patient of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender). As Sabina, Knightley struggles for each word early on, freakishly jutting her chin in such a way you begin...
- 9/9/2011
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
A Dangerous Method
Written by Christopher Hampton
Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland, 2011
David Cronenberg’s first film since 2007′s uneven mob thriller Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method seems destined to confound and divide nearly both seasoned fans and casual moviegoers. Considerably more austere and literary than any of his previous work, while retaining his intense interest in the human animal, Method is at once slyly subversive and carefully measured in its approach to both theme and historicity.
Method, which spans roughly a decade, opens in 1904 Vienna, where budding psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) has agreed to take on Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as a patient in order to test a psychoanalytic technique invented but apparently heretofore untried by Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, effortlessly devouring scenery). Spielrein suffers from intense panic attacks that cause her body and face to contort wildly, and render her speech nearly incomprehensible. By employing Freud’s methods,...
Written by Christopher Hampton
Directed by David Cronenberg
Canada / Germany / UK / Switzerland, 2011
David Cronenberg’s first film since 2007′s uneven mob thriller Eastern Promises, A Dangerous Method seems destined to confound and divide nearly both seasoned fans and casual moviegoers. Considerably more austere and literary than any of his previous work, while retaining his intense interest in the human animal, Method is at once slyly subversive and carefully measured in its approach to both theme and historicity.
Method, which spans roughly a decade, opens in 1904 Vienna, where budding psychoanalyst Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) has agreed to take on Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as a patient in order to test a psychoanalytic technique invented but apparently heretofore untried by Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, effortlessly devouring scenery). Spielrein suffers from intense panic attacks that cause her body and face to contort wildly, and render her speech nearly incomprehensible. By employing Freud’s methods,...
- 9/9/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
With a filmography including Scanners, The Fly and Videodrome, one would expect David Cronenberg to dabble in fascinating subjects yet still craft a film that's entertaining—even exciting—to watch. That's what I was hoping to see with A Dangerous Method, his new film about psychoanalysis, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, but unfortunately Cronenberg only included half of that cinematic equation in this film. That half is the fascinating half, as Dangerous Method is immensely fascinating to watch, delving into the early origins of psychoanalysis in a very intriguing way, but the film overall is rather dull and ultimately quite forgettable. Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method, adapted by screenwriter Christopher Hampton from John Kerr's book, focuses primarily on Carl Jung (played by Michael Fassbender), a Swiss psychiatrist who is influenced by the legendary Sigmund Freud (played by Viggo Mortensen). The actual story is framed around a Russian patient he takes on,...
- 9/7/2011
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Telluride 2011, Day 2
The most perilous and difficult aspect of attending Telluride – whether you’re a passholder, a guest, a sponsor, or a ticketholder – is going to the bathroom. Really. Because the great majority of the fest’s venues are assembled specifically for the event, some of its facilities are ill-equipped to deal with hundreds of rabid moviegoers who’ve been specifically instructed to stay hydrated to stave off altitude sickness. As a result, the lines are long – but as the fest’s employees are quick to reiterate, waiting in line is the second-greatest thing to do here. That’s not spin: because there seems to be no such animal as a casual Telluride-goer, nearly every attendee has a story to tell, a great movie to recommend, or a questionable opinion they feel very strongly about.
On the subject of non-casual entites, Today’s Symposium schedule included two potentially incredible speakers: Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
The most perilous and difficult aspect of attending Telluride – whether you’re a passholder, a guest, a sponsor, or a ticketholder – is going to the bathroom. Really. Because the great majority of the fest’s venues are assembled specifically for the event, some of its facilities are ill-equipped to deal with hundreds of rabid moviegoers who’ve been specifically instructed to stay hydrated to stave off altitude sickness. As a result, the lines are long – but as the fest’s employees are quick to reiterate, waiting in line is the second-greatest thing to do here. That’s not spin: because there seems to be no such animal as a casual Telluride-goer, nearly every attendee has a story to tell, a great movie to recommend, or a questionable opinion they feel very strongly about.
On the subject of non-casual entites, Today’s Symposium schedule included two potentially incredible speakers: Wim Wenders and Werner Herzog.
- 9/4/2011
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method "seeks to rehabilitate the 'talking cure' as a radical, even potentially incendiary, concept," argues Richard Porton in Cinema Scope. "Inspired by John Kerr's A Most Dangerous Method, a study of the complex relationship between Carl Jung, his patient (and mistress) Sabina Spielrein, and Jung's mentor, and eventual adversary, Sigmund Freud — and more directly based on screenwriter Christopher Hampton's play The Talking Cure — Cronenberg tackles one of his favorite themes: the toll exacted by sexual repression and the danger, as well as frisson, of shedding the weight of such repression. Just as these themes were delineated with the aid of generic horror tropes in Shivers (1975), A Dangerous Method reveals the emotional violence that bubbles below the surface of Hampton's witty repartee."
"Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, this story of boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the...
"Precise, lucid and thrillingly disciplined, this story of boundary-testing in the early days of psychoanalysis is brought to vivid life by the...
- 9/4/2011
- MUBI
Jury president neither shaken nor stirred by ex-wife's marriage, resentment simmers over Polanski's failure to credit screenwriter, and a banned Chinese film-maker heads home
All aboard as Ark sets sail
Jury president Darren Aronofsky was gliding about the opening night party on the Excelsior beach in a velvet Gucci dinner jacket. The director, who won the Golden Lion for The Wrestler three years ago, looked trim and happy despite recent upheavals in his private life – his ex-wife Rachel Weisz married James Bond. "I'm just getting on with prepping my next movie," he told me. After the success of Black Swan, Aronofsky can command the budget he needs for his long-cherished film Noah's Ark. "It's a proper, old-school Biblical epic," he said. "No one's really done it, except for a segment in John Huston's film The Bible, when Huston himself played Noah. So I'm going all out, floods, real animals,...
All aboard as Ark sets sail
Jury president Darren Aronofsky was gliding about the opening night party on the Excelsior beach in a velvet Gucci dinner jacket. The director, who won the Golden Lion for The Wrestler three years ago, looked trim and happy despite recent upheavals in his private life – his ex-wife Rachel Weisz married James Bond. "I'm just getting on with prepping my next movie," he told me. After the success of Black Swan, Aronofsky can command the budget he needs for his long-cherished film Noah's Ark. "It's a proper, old-school Biblical epic," he said. "No one's really done it, except for a segment in John Huston's film The Bible, when Huston himself played Noah. So I'm going all out, floods, real animals,...
- 9/3/2011
- by Jason Solomons
- The Guardian - Film News
Even the celebrated spanking scene fails to knock much life into David Cronenberg's lugubrious tale of the tussle between Freud and Jung
There is method a-plenty in David Cronenberg's well-upholstered tale of Freud and Jung and the woman in the middle. It contains solid, subtle performances from Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. The script is intelligent, the tone is tasteful, and Keira Knightley provides the Oscar bait with a fleeting display of stage-managed pyrotechnics. All that's missing, in fact, is a crucial whiff of danger.
A Dangerous Method is based on a play by Christopher Hampton, which is itself based on a book by John Kerr and somewhere along this rattling crawl between the base-camps the vim and vigour has bled clean out of it. Fassbender stars as the young Carl Jung, a fledgling psychiatrist, reaching for greatness under the gimlet eye of his mentor, Sigmund Freud (Mortensen). Jung idolises Freud but,...
There is method a-plenty in David Cronenberg's well-upholstered tale of Freud and Jung and the woman in the middle. It contains solid, subtle performances from Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender. The script is intelligent, the tone is tasteful, and Keira Knightley provides the Oscar bait with a fleeting display of stage-managed pyrotechnics. All that's missing, in fact, is a crucial whiff of danger.
A Dangerous Method is based on a play by Christopher Hampton, which is itself based on a book by John Kerr and somewhere along this rattling crawl between the base-camps the vim and vigour has bled clean out of it. Fassbender stars as the young Carl Jung, a fledgling psychiatrist, reaching for greatness under the gimlet eye of his mentor, Sigmund Freud (Mortensen). Jung idolises Freud but,...
- 9/2/2011
- by Xan Brooks
- The Guardian - Film News
Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender star in David Cronenberg's eagerly anticipated thriller/drama A Dangerous Method. This reteams Mortensen with Cronenberg after the success of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, both astoundingly good films. Screenplay is by Christopher Hampton, based on the book "A Most Dangerous Method" by John Kerr, and "The Talking Cure" play by Hampton. The film opens via Sony Pictures Classics on November 23rd. Check out the trailer in standard and HD versions after the synopsis below. Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung...
- 9/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Viggo Mortensen, Keira Knightley and Michael Fassbender star in David Cronenberg's eagerly anticipated thriller/drama A Dangerous Method. This reteams Mortensen with Cronenberg after the success of A History of Violence and Eastern Promises, both astoundingly good films. Screenplay is by Christopher Hampton, based on the book "A Most Dangerous Method" by John Kerr, and "The Talking Cure" play by Hampton. The film opens via Sony Pictures Classics on November 23rd. Check out the trailer in standard and HD versions after the synopsis below. Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung...
- 9/2/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Sneak Peek a new French teaser poster supporting director David Cronenberg's upcoming thriller "A Dangerous Method".
The historical biopic, following the conflict between 'Freud' and his pupil 'Jung', will be released by Sony Pictures Classics.
"A Dangerous Method" stars Viggo Mortensen as 'Sigmund Freud', Michael Fassbender as 'Carl Jung', Keira Knightley as 'Sabina Spielrein' and Vincent Cassel as 'Otto Gross'.
Oscar-winner Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay, adapting his 2002 stage play "The Talking Cure", based on the 1993 non-fiction novel "A Most Dangerous Method", by author John Kerr.
The film also marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Mortensen ("A History of Violence", "Eastern Promises") and his second movie with Cassel :
"...Set on the eve of World War I, 'A Dangerous Method' is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist 'Carl Jung', his mentor 'Sigmund Freud' and 'Sabina Spielrein', the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them.
The historical biopic, following the conflict between 'Freud' and his pupil 'Jung', will be released by Sony Pictures Classics.
"A Dangerous Method" stars Viggo Mortensen as 'Sigmund Freud', Michael Fassbender as 'Carl Jung', Keira Knightley as 'Sabina Spielrein' and Vincent Cassel as 'Otto Gross'.
Oscar-winner Christopher Hampton wrote the screenplay, adapting his 2002 stage play "The Talking Cure", based on the 1993 non-fiction novel "A Most Dangerous Method", by author John Kerr.
The film also marks the third collaboration between Cronenberg and Mortensen ("A History of Violence", "Eastern Promises") and his second movie with Cassel :
"...Set on the eve of World War I, 'A Dangerous Method' is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist 'Carl Jung', his mentor 'Sigmund Freud' and 'Sabina Spielrein', the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between them.
- 8/24/2011
- by Michael Stevens
- SneakPeek
Welcome back to my list of the 25 most anticipated films screening at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. So the first five films I chose on this list probably had mainstream moviegoers scratching their heads. Well you should know now that it won’t get too mainstream for me. Next on the list is two genre films playing in the Midnight Madness programme, one from my favourite director, plus two more that I look forward to watching.
6. Livid
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I was a huge fan of the French New Wave horror film Inside by directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. The duo is back this year at Tiff with Livid, starring Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Chloe Coulloud and Felix Moati. Livid is a horror fairytale set during Halloween night when three youths decide to burglarize an old lady’s desolate house, but what awaits them is no ordinary house…
7. A Dangerous Method...
6. Livid
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I was a huge fan of the French New Wave horror film Inside by directors Julien Maury and Alexandre Bustillo. The duo is back this year at Tiff with Livid, starring Marie-Claude Pietragalla, Chloe Coulloud and Felix Moati. Livid is a horror fairytale set during Halloween night when three youths decide to burglarize an old lady’s desolate house, but what awaits them is no ordinary house…
7. A Dangerous Method...
- 8/18/2011
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender and Vincent Cassel star in A Dangerous Method which gets a first poster. The project reunites Mortensen with frequent collaborator director David Cronenberg, who work together on winners like Eastern Promises and A History of Violence. Scripted by Christopher Hampton from the book of the same title by John Kerr, and play by Hampton, A Dangerous Method is a look at how the intense relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud gave birth to psychoanalysis. Also in the cast of A Dangerous Method are Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke and Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey...
- 8/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
It's been a while since we've heard from director David Cronenberg. But he's back, with Viggo Mortensen in tow, with a new film called A Dangerous Method.
A Dangerous Method is a somewhat-speculative historical drama concerning the relationship of famed psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. While this seems like an unusual topic for Cronenberg, as you'll see in the trailer embedded below this flick seems to contain some of Cronenberg's favorite themes: complex human relationships and outré sexuality.
The flick was written by Christopher Hampton and is based on his play The Talking Cure, which was based on John Kerr's book A Most Dangerous Method. Academy Award winner Hampton is well versed in historical dramas, having written Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse and Atonement, among others.
This is Mortenson's third film in a row with Cronenberg. Other cast members include Keira Knightly, as the woman who complicates the shrinks' relationship,...
A Dangerous Method is a somewhat-speculative historical drama concerning the relationship of famed psychiatrists Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. While this seems like an unusual topic for Cronenberg, as you'll see in the trailer embedded below this flick seems to contain some of Cronenberg's favorite themes: complex human relationships and outré sexuality.
The flick was written by Christopher Hampton and is based on his play The Talking Cure, which was based on John Kerr's book A Most Dangerous Method. Academy Award winner Hampton is well versed in historical dramas, having written Dangerous Liaisons, Mary Reilly, Total Eclipse and Atonement, among others.
This is Mortenson's third film in a row with Cronenberg. Other cast members include Keira Knightly, as the woman who complicates the shrinks' relationship,...
- 6/23/2011
- by Theron
- Planet Fury
We have added the first trailer for Sony Pictures Classics and director David Cronenberg's, "A Dangerous Method." The film stars Viggo Mortenson as famous Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud.Based on the John Kerr novel "A Most Dangerous Method," the film also stars Keria Knightley, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel, Sarah Gadon, André Hennicke, Arndt Schwering-Sohnrey and Mignon Remé.Watch the trailer below;"A Dangerous Method" is set for release across the UK from February 12th, 2012. A Us release date is yet to be announced. Set on the eve of the World War I, A Dangerous Method is based on the turbulent relationships between fledgling psychiatrist Carl Jung, his mentor Sigmund Freud, and Sabina Spielrein, the troubled but beautiful young woman who comes between...
- 6/22/2011
- by Anthony Pearson
- Monsters and Critics
I was already quite enthusiastic when I first read about A Dangerous Method; now I'm champing at the bit. To reiterate, Cronenberg, Mortensen, Fassbender, Cassel, sexy times. What more could you want? Oh, a chick? Will Keira Knightly do? Yes, I know she's no Tits McBooberson, but she apparently does like some kink and you can make fun of her accent, so everyone wins. Though over time, Cronenberg has steered his moviemaking from straight-up horror to somewhat more mainstream and accessible films, he perseveres at exposing peoples' dark sides. A Dangerous Method, based on Christopher Hampton's play, The Talking Cure (which is in turn, based on John Kerr's A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein) takes a look at the relationship between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), who clearly have different ideas about the doctor patient relationship. Keira Knightly plays accentually challenged Russian,...
- 6/22/2011
- by Cindy Davis
David Cronenberg's last movie to reach theaters was 2007's Eastern Promises, but the Canadian director is currently hard at work shooting an adaptation of Cosmopolis, based on the Don DeLillo novel and starring Twilight's Robert Pattinson. Cronenberg's next movie to hit theaters, however, is A Dangerous Method, based on the play The Talking Cure by Christopher Hampton (Dangerous Liasons), which, in turn, was based on the non-fiction novel A Most Dangerous Method by John Kerr.
A Dangerous Method is a historical drama that enters the intellectual, and apparently sex-filled, world of psychology as explained in the movie's synopsis.
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
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A Dangerous Method is a historical drama that enters the intellectual, and apparently sex-filled, world of psychology as explained in the movie's synopsis.
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.
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- 6/22/2011
- by Ryan Gowland
- Reelzchannel.com
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