The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Sophie Fiennes

Writer:

Slavoj Zizek (writer)

Release Date:

16 January 2009 (USA)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made...

Plot Keywords:

Philosopher | Slovenian | Film Making | Film History | Monologue

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Slavoj Zizek

...

Himself

Runtime:

Argentina:150 min (Mar del Plata Film Festival) | Austria:150 min | USA:150 min

Country:

UK | Austria | Netherlands

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

Argentina:13

Filming Locations:

Bodega Bay, California, USA

Company:

Amoeba Film

Quotes:

Slavoj Zizek: All modern films are ultimately films about the possibility or impossibility to make a film.

Movie Connections:

Features Persona (1966)

Perv!

Slavoj Zizek sure is a strange man. philosopher and psychoanalyst does something that very few others, for some unknown reason, have done, and that's taking movies that we know and love, and putting them on the couch for analysis. This is a startlingly simple yet brilliant concept. I am not sure why this hasn't been done before. Zizek takes movies that are obvious for analyzing, eg, Blue Velvet, Psycho, and some that are not so.. eg The Conversation and The Birds. Although Zizek is hard to understand sometimes because of his theeeck accent, the images come fast and furious, so that's fun, also Zizek takes great pains to recreate locations of scenes, which also adds to the entertainment value of this otherwise talky film. .