Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

  • Cosmopolis

    Cosmopolis

    The 2003 novel by Don DeLillo (which I have not read) may have been a cautionary tale, but David Cronenberg’s film version of COSMOPOLIS is a dystopian fantasy of the present. The financialization of the world economy is complete. The captains of finance are threatened by mobs in Times Square and knife attacks on live…

  • A Dangerous Method

    A Dangerous Method

    A DANGEROUS METHOD is the film version of a play version of a book about the schism between Freud and Jung and the role played in it by a young woman who was Jung’s patient, student and lover. It is also, as such, a pleasant surprise. On one level, the lines seem stage-bound and almost…