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September 16
Rear Window (1954)
As his broken leg heals, wheelchair-bo
und L.B. Jefferies
(James Stewart) becomes absorbed with the parade of life
outside his window and soon fixates on a mysterious man whose behavior has Jefferies convinced a murder has taken place. Meanwhile, other windows reveal the daily lives of a dancer, a lonely woman, a composer, a dog and more. Grace Kelly, Thelma Ritter and Wendell Corey co-star in this Alfred Hitchcock-helmed classic.
Discussant: Sandra Friedman, Ph.D.
October 21
The Lives of Others (2006)
Set in 1980s East Berlin, director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's debut feature (which earned an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film) provides an exquisitely nuanced portrait of life under the watchful eye of the state police. When a successful playwright and his actress companion become subjects of the Stasi's secret surveillance program, their friends, family -- and even those doing the watching -- find their lives forever changed.
Discussant: Robert Winer, M.D.
November 18
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
Carson McCullers's Southern drama comes to the big screen 
with Marlon Brando as Maj. Weldon Penderton, a repressed homosexual married to the carping Leonora (Elizabeth Taylor), who's having an affair with one of her husband's colleagues (Brian Keith). This emotionally charged tragic comedy from director John Huston explores the landscape of grief, denial and the power of our closest relationships to damage what we care about the most.
Discussant: Karen Sosnoski, Ph.D.
January 13
Fish Tank (2009)
The life of hot-tempered teen outcast Mia (Katie Jarvis) takes 
an unexpected turn when her mother, Joanne (Kierston Wareing), brings home a handsome and mysterious boyfriend named Connor (Michael Fassbender), who pledges to bring sweeping positive changes to the household. British writer-director Andrea Arnold's sophomore feature won Best British Film at the 2010 BAFTAs.
Discussant: Tarpley Long, MSW
February 10
La Mirada Invisible (The Invisible Eye) (2010)
Buenos Aires, March 1982. On the streets of the Argentinean 
capital, people are challenging the military dictatorship. The walls
of the school are thick and redoubtable. A secure promise of the guaranteed preservation of the good old days of school routine
from anything that may happen outside its walls in the neighboring streets, in Buenos Aires itself, in the Argentina of 1982. María Teresa is a classroom assistant at that school, an innocent - or maybe just ignorant - mistress of ceremonies, a bystander. She is twenty years old. She started work when it was still summer and
Mr. Biasutto, the chief classroom assistant, made quite clear to her at her first interview the sort of attitude she is expected to adopt with students because it would not be an easy task to arrive at what he called 'the optimum surveillance point': Always on the 'qui vive', never missing a thing, but never giving cause for alarm amongst the students.
Discussant: Tito Pieczanski, M.D.
March 9
Blue Velvet (1986)
An innocent man (Kyle MacLachlan) gets mixed up in a small-town 
murder mystery involving a kinky nightclub chanteuse (Isabella Rossellini) and a kidnapper (Dennis Hopper) with a penchant for snorting helium in this moodily surreal mystery from writer-director David Lynch. One of the most critically acclaimed movies of the 1980s, the film inspired a generation of independent filmmakers by taking a dark look at the lives of everyday Americans.
Discussant: Cindy Bollman, PhD
April 13
The Secret in Their Eyes (2010)
A startling discovery comes to light for retired Argentine 
criminal
investigator Benjamín Espósito (Ricardo Darín) as he pens a biographical novel about the unsolved case of a young newlywed's brutal rape and murder years ago. Past and present intertwine for Espósito and colleague Irene Menéndez Hastings (Soledad Villamil) in director Juan José Campanella's Oscar-winning character study in which justice, pain and love collide.
Discussant: Julio Szmuilowicz, M.D. Faculty member, Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis
