Searching the Psyche through Cinema...

 

A free series of four films featuring three-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep, perhaps the greatest actress of her generation and a master of psychologically complex roles.   Films begin at 1:30 p.m., and each one is followed by a discussion.

  

Mark your calendars for these upcoming dates.

 

January 10    Kramer vs Kramer

 Dustin Hoffman plays Ted, a workaholic advertising executive who comes home one day to discover that wife Joanna (Streep) is leaving him and their young son Billy. She needs to find herself, she says. Father and son make a difficult adjustment, learning to live without her, until Joanna returns 15 months later to claim the boy, touching off a nasty custody battle.

Rated PG; 105 minutes (1979)

 

Presenters:  Psychoanalyst Bonnie Buchele and Trey Hock, associate professor of filmmaking at the Kansas City Art Institute.

 

January 24    The French Lieutenant's Woman

 John Fowles’ acclaimed but complex novel is brilliantly adapted into parallel dramas, one entailing the 19th-century romance of Sarah Woodruff and Charles Smithson and the other tracking the modern-day affair between Mike and Anna – two actors playing Charles and Sarah in a filmed version of their story. Jeremy Irons stars as Mike and Charles. Streep earned an Oscar nomination Sarah/Anna.

 Rated R; 124 minutes (1981)

 

Presenters: Psychoanalyst Sid Frieswyk and Jayson Quearry, adjunct instructor at the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

 

February 7    Postcards from the Edge 

 Actress Suzanne Vale (Streep) is a recovering drug addict trying to pick up the pieces of her acting career and get on with life after her discharge from a rehab center. For insurance purposes, she must stay with a “responsible” individual such as her mother (Shirley MacLaine), a comedy star in the 1950s and ’60s whose shadow Suzanne had struggled to escape. The screenplay by Carrie Fisher is based on her semi-autobiographical, 1987 novel about her and her mother, Debbie Reynolds.

Rated R; 101 minutes (1990) 

 

Presenters: Psychoanalyst Michael Harty and Tom Poe, associate professor of film and media arts at the University of Missouri- Kansas City.

 

February 21  The Hours

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Michael Cunningham, this film focuses on three women of different generations whose lives are connected by the Virginia Woolf novel Mrs. Dalloway. Streep plays Clarissa, a New Yorker preparing a party for her AIDS-stricken friend in 2001. Julianne Moore is Laura, a pregnant, California housewife with a young son and an unhappy marriage in the 1950s. And Nicole Kidman is Woolf, in England, struggling with depression and mental illness while trying to write her novel in the 1920s.

Rated PG-13; 114 minutes (2002)

 

Presenters: Psychoanalyst David Donovan and Julie Farstad, associate professor of painting at the Kansas City Art Institute.

 

  2 CME's will be offered for each film and discussion. 

Cost - $30

 

 The Kansas City Public Library

Plaza Branch

4801 Main St.

Kansas City, MO

 

RSVP 816-701-3407 

or kclibrary-rsvp

  


This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the Greater Kansas City-Topeka Psychoanalytic Center. The American Psychoanalytic Association is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.”

 

The American Psychoanalytic Association designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

IMPORTANT DISCLOSURE INFORMATION FOR ALL LEARNERS: None of the planners and presenters of this CME program have any relevant financial relationships to disclose.