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Louise Brooks vs. the World: The Alpenglow and The Dream
In the heart of the city of Rochester, there resided a woman of singular beauty and intellect, Miss Louise Brooks. Her abode, a grand edifice of brick and mortar, was not a place of confinement, but rather a haven of serenity, where the celestial muses of imagination and contemplation could dance freely. Miss Brooks was enamored with the grandeur of art and the intricacies of the human mind, and it was within the walls of her sanctum that she uncovered the dark mysteries of Hollywood and the depths of her own soul. The sapphire hues of twilight and the amber glow of the setting sun, were but mere trinkets of…
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Influence of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud on filmmakers G.W. Pabst and David Lynch
The great Austrian director G.W. Pabst graced the film world with some of the most thought-provoking movies to hit the silver screen. Some of his most intriguing works featured sophisticated inclusion of the kind of psychoanalytical thought that was prevalent at the time. Here’s what connoisseurs of silent films with a penchant for the intellectual should know about Pabst’s use of figures like Sigmund Freud. We will also visit the influence of Carl Jung in David Lynch’s work. ‘Secrets of the Soul’ There is, perhaps, no other film in Pabst’s portfolio that borrows so heavily from the psychoanalytical thinking of the times than Secrets of the Soul. What Pabst left us within…
