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 Cinema of... [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 Wes Craven.... [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 disturbing... [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 the past... [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]
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 Lynch.... [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 and out of... [Read more of this post]
