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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

2006
Documentary
2h 30m
THE PERVERT'S GUIDE TO CINEMA takes the viewer on an exhilarating ride through some of the greatest movies ever made. Serving as presenter and guide is the charismatic Slavoj Zizek, acclaimed philosopher and psychoanalyst. With his engaging and passionate approach to thinking, Zizek delves into the hidden language of cinema, uncovering what movies can tell us about ourselves... (imdb)
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

2006
Documentary
2h 30m
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Rated 11 Feb 2013
76
68th
Slavoj Zizek pronounces the P in "Psycho".
Rated 08 Jun 2020
74
84th
Zizek doesn't always seem 100% convincing about everything (but that's the nature of interpretation, and even more so with psychoanalytic interpretation), and there's plenty more to say (he's operating under time constraints, obviously), but he succeeds in saying more interesting things and better things than almost all critics and "film theorists". His choice of films to look at is very good, and the focus on BLUE VELVET is of particular interest to me, since I lectured on it many years ago.
Rated 13 Jan 2009
85
73rd
Very interesting concepts used by this Freudian. Any fan of psychology will of course like this documentary, but fans of cinema will also enjoy the opportunity to rediscover some classic scenes or just hear how their favorite movies relate to incest and traumas.
Rated 02 Jun 2010
75
82nd
Feels as though we have barely scratched the surface
Rated 04 Nov 2012
60
29th
Zizek gets point for enthusiasm in his conveyance of the material, which is what I assume makes him memetically popular among academic students, but this movie just amounts to a series of run-on-sentences disguised by sleights of hand in the form of iconic movie clips. And the substance of these sentences is perhaps interesting, but not very substantial, as Zizek really fails to take into account either populace or audience in his argumentation.
Rated 03 Dec 2012
94
94th
Lacan for life, motherfuckers.
Rated 18 Mar 2010
78
79th
Doesn't really matter if you agree with everything Zizek is saying, the way this is filmed and presented keeps you glued to the screen. I think it's a feast for any fan of cinema; you should brush up on your Lynch and Hitchcock before watching it though, cos there are some spoilers.
Rated 30 Sep 2010
85
72nd
It definitely helps to read up on Lacan and watch it again, as he can only include so much setup with 2.5 hours. Incredibly interesting and funny regardless, and creatively presented.
Rated 25 Sep 2011
60
65th
SPOILERS! Sadly, I'll never be able to pronounce 'phallus' correctly again.
Rated 22 Mar 2012
77
60th
Interesting but also disappointing, as big parts are quite boring.
Rated 08 Sep 2012
85
75th
Mostly I'm rating this guy on his enthusiasm, the actual content is pretty fucking stupid.
Rated 27 Jan 2016
60
50th
In many ways like the best lecture you never got in film school. I may not agree with all of Zizek's theories, but they're always interesting, often hilarious and the style of putting him inside the movies he is discussing keeps the whole thing visually interesting (when the whole thing really is just film clips and a guy talking in broken english). The funniest moment may be the one that's not at all about movies and involves him discussing why tulips should be forbidden around children.
Rated 04 Sep 2018
83
88th
Toilet man takes us to the sewers.
Rated 31 Aug 2009
85
77th
31 agustos 09, 21:39da bitti & sinema neyi arzulamamiz gerektigini degil, nasil arzulayacagimizi gosterir. | zizek yine beyin bombaliyor ve yer yer zorlama da olsa 30u askin filmin uzerinden giderek bize sinemayi anlatmaya calisiyor. anlamaya calisiyoruz.. (:
Rated 20 Mar 2011
20
41st
"The playful anti-academic stances of Slavoj Zizek have often seemed like sheep's clothing to obscure yet another post-Marxist, neo-Lacanian thinker." - Joseph Jon Lanthier
Rated 12 Jun 2011
81
88th
Very insightful, I only wish it was longer, because there is a lot left unexplored.
Rated 12 Sep 2011
71
56th
i think although his explanations are unfinished or maybe he doesn't want to tell all.
Rated 01 Apr 2014
68
45th
I'm not quite sure why it doesn't work as well as expected. It's watchable, I'm always game for movies about movies; but Zizek comes off as somewhat self-aggrandizing, his choice of material kind of pedestrian (is there really any point of reading Freudian undertones in Hitchcock and Lynch), and most problematic there doesn't seem to be a whole lot at stake. His "playfulness" just makes him all the easier to dismiss.
Rated 12 Apr 2015
85
83rd
3 essays with a psychoanalyst's twist on predominantly Hitchcock, Lynch, Tarkovsky films among a host of others. I'll now aim to corner a women at a cocktail party and recite (erroneously) as much of this content as possible, mainly to see how much she chooses to digest before regurgitating violently on my shoes and trouser legs, which is really a visceral, feminine reflection of what I was achieving. Of course, when this fantasy comes to fruition, it will be far more nightmarish, as prophecized
Rated 14 Aug 2016
90
93rd
Much more interesting than its successor, highlighting the philosophical importance of cinema in many enthusiastic and often creative examples.
Rated 26 Oct 2016
90
95th
Zizek is inventive and insightful. I'll definitely watch this one again.
Rated 01 May 2017
65
42nd
Maybe it's my lack of education in Lacanian psychoanalysis but every time I went "Oh, that's interesting", Zizek had jumped to the next fragmented string of thought. But, that's part of the charm.
Rated 31 May 2017
75
66th
Slavoj Žižek is his simultaneously humorous yet severe self here and his psychoanalytical insights are always crazy entertaining or crazy interesting or just plain crazy. He seems so passionate about the subject that he makes even the more obvious points seem profound.
Rated 25 Jul 2019
90
83rd
Zizek takes the most beautiful clips from iconic films, and dissects them playfully from a Freudian perspective. The film tracks different dimensions of human sexuality and subconscious drives, at times giving the viewer the impression they are sitting in on one of Zizek's philosophy courses.
Rated 28 Mar 2020
80
80th
50% insightful analysis, 50% incomprehensible
Rated 09 Sep 2021
65
64th
This is seeing into the mind of a cinephile. While I am not totally convinced by Žižek's psychoanalysis of everything, I do value his appreciation of cinema and his commitment to the potential of film as philosophy. The way in which he flits between films and ideas, with the common thread of Lacanianism, is necessary as it demands the viewer to immerse and often drown in cinema. “In order to understand today’s world, we need cinema, literally”; on this I totally agree with Žižek.
Rated 09 Dec 2021
88
64th
Yaşayan düşünür Slavoj Zizekin yazdığı bu eğlenceli ve felsefi eseri kesinlikle öneririm.Çok meşhur damga vurmuş kült filmlere Zizekin (lacancı) analizi ile bir göz gezdirmek hayata farklı pencereen bakabilme imkanını sunacaktır. Kesinlikle izleyin! Puanım 8.8

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