14 Weirdest Dreams in Hollywood
The April 2010 issue of the British film magazine Empire includes a feature in which I interpret the dreams of 14 movie actors and directors: Robert Downey, Jr., Kate Winslett, Peter Jackson,... [Read more of this post]
Dreaming and the Cinema of David Lynch
(Dreaming: The Journal of the Association for the Study of Dreams 2003, vol. 13, no. 1, pp. 49-60) Abstract: This essay explores the influence of dreams and dreaming on the filmmaking of David... [Read more of this post]
Penelope as Dreamer: The Perils of Interpretation
Many scholars, not to mention most members of the general public, are deeply skeptical about the possibility of dream research ever producing results of real, legitimate significance. There is... [Read more of this post]
Dreams, Film and Art: Reference Links
“The Dreams We Dream for Each Other: Comments on the DreamingNow Exhibit at the Rose Museum of Modern Art, 2005” (catalog essay) The Zodiac (feature-length screenplay) “Dreaming and the... [Read more of this post]
Dreams Within Films, Films Within Dreams
Films Reviewed in this Essay: “Dreams.” Directed by Karen Shakhnazarov and Alexander Borodyansky. 1993 (Russia). “Wes Craven’s New Nightmare.” Directed by... [Read more of this post]
Review: "In Dreams"
This 1998 thriller is a showcase for the acting talents of Annette Bening. She plays Claire (as in clear-sighted), an artistically inclined New England housewife who has a series of increasingly... [Read more of this post]
From the Yellow Brick Road to Freddy’s Razor Claws: Films, Dreams, and American Society
Based on a Presentation Made at the 1996 Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Religion The relationship between films and dreams has received a modest degree of scholarly attention over... [Read more of this post]
Comments on DreamingNow, 2005
The Dreams We Dream For Each Other In a lecture Jorge Luis Borges once gave on the subject of dreams and nightmares, he said “dreams are an aesthetic work, perhaps the earliest aesthetic expression”... [Read more of this post]
Review: The Little Vampire
I don’t know anyone who saw this movie. In fact, I don’t know anyone who even heard of this movie before I mentioned it to them. “The Little Vampire” quietly passed in... [Read more of this post]
