Check out all of the posts tagged with "psychiatrist".
Cillian Murphy stars as a suicidal young man sent to stay in a Dublin psychiatric hospital, where he meets influential new friends, in John Carney’s 2001 Irish drama film On the Edge. Co-writer/ director John Carney’s 2001 Irish […]
Director Fielder Cook’s 1986 drama Seize the Day stars Robin Williams, who is stupendous as a Tommy Wilhelm, man in the middle of a personal and business crisis as he reaches 40, in this rewarding, […]
In 1983 it seemed almost inevitable that the project of Americanising François Truffaut’s 1977 French romantic comedy L’Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) would fall to director Blake Edwards and that he […]
F Scott Fitzgerald’s great 1934 semi-autobiographical novel Tender Is the Night about rich, troubled Americans in Europe in the jazz age Twenties is difficult to film, as the BBC found in its 1985 six-part serial […]
Director Ulu Grosbard’s 1971 comedy Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? earned an Oscar nomination for Barbara Harris as Best Actress in a Supporting Role. It was […]
Director Alfred L Werker’s enjoyable, creepy 1946 film noir thriller Shock sees Vincent Price grabbing his new top-lined billing as the psychopathic psychiatrist Dr Richard Cross who has recently acquired Mrs Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw) […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]