Maybe the art house isn't a place for perverts anymore. Indeed, the privacy of one's own laptop seems a somewhat safer setting for Zizek's kinky act of criticism.
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2009)
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Reviews Counted:20
Fresh:18
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7.1/10
Consensus: Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek forgoes the textbook stuff for a fun, probing look at cinema and the human emotional response to it.
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Education/General Interest
Theatrical Release:Jan 16, 2009 Limited
Director: Sophie Fiennes
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Cinematically speaking, you my find your meeting with psychoanalyst/film theorist Slavoj Zizek to be a near-religious experience.
08/04/09
Often drags and leaves you feeling underwhelmed.
01/30/09
As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema contains all kinds of wicked fascinations.
01/30/09
Impresses with four stars for part one, but then fizzles out with the gabby shrink's repetitive, often meaningless psychobabble up to the finish line. Astute analysis or personal obsession? Paging the shrink's shrink.
01/17/09
It is a fun romp through the annals of cinema by pop Slovenian philosopher and prolific writer Slavoj Zizek, who finds deep psychological meaning in a slew of movies.
01/16/09
Top CriticThe teachers we remember most fondly are often the ones who entertained as they enlightened, through hyperbole seasoned with grains of salt. Mr. Zizek belongs in that company.
01/16/09
Top Critic[Zizek] steers clear of his usual dense Hegel-centric language and goes straight for the fun bits.
01/14/09
Top CriticIt sounds completely mad, but it hangs together because of the brilliant, hilarious decision to insert the garrulous philosopher into key scenes of the films he discusses.
01/12/09
Top CriticWhat helps the film rise above the level of a photographed college lecture is the director's inventive and playful presentation.
05/04/07
Top CriticA delightful two-and-a-half-hour repast for mindful film junkies.
04/26/07
Top CriticIf you love movies, this is a must-see.
04/19/07
Here's a film guaranteed to make you smarter than all your friends for 48 hours, or at least feel like you are.
04/19/07
Top CriticBrisk, entertaining and, yes, intense.
10/18/06
Looking like no one so much as Ricky Tomlinson's crazed Slovenian twin brother, that unruly thinker and critic Slavoj Zizek gives us a highly entertaining and often brilliant tour of modern cinema.
10/07/06
While this is fun, it’s hardly sprocket science.
10/06/06
Above all The Pervert's Guide to Cinema ponders a crucial question for all film-goers: why do we continue to be emotionally affected by movies, even when we know they're fake?
10/03/06
How you perceive classics from directors as wide-ranging as Lynch, Coppola and Tarkovsky might be richened.
09/23/06
Top CriticWhen [narrator Slavoj Zizek's] firing on all cylinders, such as when he examines a series of voyeuristic characters peering through cracks or when he turns his analytical powers on Psycho, he brings new life to the films he discusses.
09/23/06
A virtuoso marriage of image and thought.
09/18/06
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