Are you crazy about movies? Me too. And apparently, we're not alone.
Now you can find solace and meet like minds at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ cool new interactive multimedia exhibition, “Movies on the Mind: Psychology and Film since Sigmund Freud.”
The exhibit explores the connections between film and psychology and is divided into zones including a psychoanalytic area, a crying room, a drug-induced delirium room and the all-important voyeurs’ area.
Visitors can lie on a primitive sanitarium bed, recline on a psychiatrist’s couch and view clips from dozens of crazy films including “Psycho,” my personal favorite “Marnie," "Annie Hall,” “Being John Malkovich," "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” “The Silence of the Lambs,” “Talk to Her” and “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.”
The big press opening is tomorrow night, Thursday, June 14th. But the unsettling exhibit - made possible by the generosity of the Goethe Institute - opens to the public on Friday, June 15. Should you need follow-up treatments, it will be open until Sept. 16. AMPAS is located at 8949 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills. Click here for more info. And don't forget your meds.
Photo Credits: "Secrets of a Soul" (1925/26) courtesy of Deutsche Kinemathek, Berlin.
