'Method' acting

Moviegoers within the NY Film Festival filled Alice Tully Hall to capacity March. 5 for that new the new sony Pictures Classics' "A Dangerous Method," with helmer David Cronenberg, film author Christopher Hampton and star Michael Fassbender among the participants. The afterparty is at the Empire Hotel, where site visitors came outdoors-air roof restaurant consuming a novelty cocktail, correctly referred to as, due to the film they'd just seen, Bitter and Twisted (grapefruit/vodka/bitters). Since the movie is all about Freud, Jung, and Jung's patient-mistress Sabina Spielrein, everyone connected with "A Dangerous Method" was prepared to speak psychoanalysis. Fassbender, thinking to his previous movie assignment "X-Males," thought his Magneto wouldn't say anything round the couch. "He'd just start getting fun with people little metal ball products that everyone has." Regarding Jung, "I'd want to speak with him about his sex with Sabina," Cronenberg mentioned. For Hampton, he mentioned, "I've really never been examined, and i'm afraid to be examined -- just just in case they fix me." Contact Variety Staff at news@variety.com