"We are Terrible People" Part 2
a dialogue with Mary Wild about Woody Allen
Topics covered in this conversation with Mary Wild include: her upcoming class Woody Allen: The Cinema of Neurosis, reactions to the drama surrounding Allen’s personal life, approaches to teaching, certitude and righteousness in the culture, and admitting you’re a terrible person as a “magic spell that can be cast on the situation to alleviate me of this ridiculous pressure to live up to some arbitrarily determined position of moral righteousness. Now I can just speak freely and be curious and reflective and go into some of the more murky corners…”
This conversation is part of a long running dialogue, mostly surrounding moral righteousness and movies. The first part of the conversation, where we talk about Andrew Dominik’s Blonde, Van Gogh drama, my new book, and many other things, can be found here, at Mary’s great Patreon. Mary and I also talked about Joachim Trier’s The Worst Person in the World, generation X, the problem with “problematic”, and more in Asphalte Magazine.
Mary Wild is the creator of the Projections lecture series at Freud Museum London, applying psychoanalysis to film interpretation. She co-hosts Projections Podcast, contributes to the Evolution of Horror Podcast, and posts exclusive content on patreon.com/marywild. She is @psycstar on Twitter and Instagram.
Here’s the audio chat for subscribers: