Film Review: Now Walks Like Others

A Review of the documentary film Shugendō Now

Film Review

a battery of treatments in the mental hospital. We are in the screen world where every nurse is pretty and kind, the doctors gentle and understanding, even fellow patients are little disturbing and in the spacious ward, french windows let in the sunshine. Granted the film technique, has the story anything to teach the lay public ? A curiosity about psychology has been shown by the popularity of...

Film Review

The Secret Behind the Door. (Featuring Joan Bennett and Michael Redgrave. 8,865 ft. 99 mins.) Psychiatrists, presumably, are used to strange tales from their patients. Sometimes they may be inclined to think that nothing about human beings will surprise them. There, however, they underestimate the film-writer's imagination, for in The Secret Behind the Door there is portrayed a hero whose parti...

Film Review

The object was to study the effect of separation from the mother. The film shows her daily visits, the child's reaction to a specially arranged play period with a nurse and a time study at 11 each morning as well as certain traumatic incidents?the first farewell, the first bath by someone not her mother, the removal of stitches after the operation. It is an honest piece of photography with a cl...

Representing others' actions: just like one's own?

Previous research has shown that observing others' actions can affect individual performance of the same actions. In the present study, we developed a new paradigm to investigate whether and how complementary actions at the disposal of another agent are represented and influence one's own actions. A spatial compatibility task was distributed among two people so that each participant took care o...