Counting down to Inception

NY Times movie review :

The relationship between movies and dreams has always been — to borrow a term from psychoanalysis — overdetermined. From its first flickerings around the time Freud was working on “The Interpretation of Dreams,” cinema seemed to replicate the uncanny, image-making power of the mind, much as still photography had in the decades before. And over the course of the 20th century, cinema provided a vast, perpetually replenishing reservoir of raw material for the fantasies of millions of people. Freud believed that dreams were compounded out of the primal matter of the unconscious and the prosaic events of daily life. If he were writing now, he would have to acknowledge that they are also, for many of us, made out of movies….more.

Si o comparatie cam hazardata, dar peste care merita aruncat un ochi din The Guardian:

The release of Inception has triggered a lot of talk – most of it no doubt emanating from the Warner Bros marketing department – that Christopher Nolan has some claim to be considered in the same league as Stanley Kubrick, a cinema legend of unarguable status. Inception is Nolan’s seventh film of a career that includes two Batman movies as well as the widely admired Memento, while Kubrick managed to complete 12 feature films (plus the 72-minute Fear and Loathing, which he suppressed shortly after its release in 1953). Are the two in any way comparable?…more.