Fred Tietz Movies
- 2006
The seminal, early 20th century case that inspired Freud, Jung, and Lacan is fictionalized in director Julian P. Hobbs' fragmented account of one distinguished German judge's descent into schizophrenic madness and eventual incarceration in an insane asylum. Married at the turn of the century and subsequently appointed a high judge, Daniel Paul Schreber would later suffer through multiple failed pregnancies alongside his wife (Lara Milian), attempt to navigate a particularly rocky relationship with his uncaring father (Joe Coleman), and suffer through woefully misguided care at the hands of questionably competent Dr. Emil Flechsig (Robert Cucuzza). Later imagining that he had been chosen by God to create a new race of man, Schreber's mental health quickly deteriorated into a cosmic paranoia highlighted by frighteningly vivid and unusually ordered hallucinations. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Jefferson Mays, Robert Cucuzza, (more)
- 1994
This urban drama with comedic moments is set amongst the New York yuppie set and chronicles the relationship woes caused by neurotic filmmaker, musician and video editor Charles. Charles, an acrophobic who cannot leave his apartment without his girlfriend Marcie, is becoming obsessively nervous about the competition in his field and about his domestic situation. To make sense of it all, he decides to film his life. His friends make fun of him, and Marcie is uncomfortable at the prospect of sharing intimate aspects of her life on camera. When Marcie goes to France for a vacation, Charles comes unhinged. Much of the story focuses upon his musings as he tries to deal with her absence and upon the relationship problems of his friends. Upon her late return, Charles accuses her of infidelity and thus destroys the relationship. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Michael Kaniecki, Bob McGrath, (more)
- 1992
In this comedy, very loosely inspired by the classic Grimm fairy tale, a suburban couple have been living a life of contented celibacy in order not to have to contend with the possibility of having a child and because marital congress is so very messy. One fateful day, the wife cuts her finger and the restraints on her erotic sensibilities which have so far easily been maintained fall away with abandon. This provokes her husband to seek to have this aberration fixed in some manner, whether through psychotherapy, surgery, or acupuncture. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide
- Starring:
- Fred Tietz
