Osburnt: Dispatches From a Life Seared by the Arts

  • Shame

    Shame

    In the most memorable scene in Steve McQueen‘s SHAME, Carey Mulligan sings a version of “New York, New York” stripped of romanticism and false promise, utterly resigned to the fact that she will probably not make it, here or anywhere. The close-up on her is punctuated by two or three perfectly positioned cutaways to the…

  • 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…