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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2009)

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Reviews Counted: 18

Fresh: 16

Rotten:2

Average Rating: 7/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Education/General Interest

Theatrical Release:Jan 16, 2009 Limited

Director: Sophie Fiennes

Director: Sophie Fiennes
Screenwriter: Slavov Zizek
Studio: IFC Films

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Often drags and leaves you feeling underwhelmed.

Full Review Source: NYC Movie Guru | comment Comment
01/30/09
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema contains all kinds of wicked fascinations.

Full Review Source: PopMatters | comment Comment
01/30/09
Chris Barsanti
PopMatters

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.

Full Review Source: NewsBlaze | comment Comment
01/17/09
Prairie Miller
NewsBlaze

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.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
01/16/09
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
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The 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.

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01/16/09
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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[Zizek] steers clear of his usual dense Hegel-centric language and goes straight for the fun bits.

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01/14/09
Vadim Rizov
Village Voice
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It 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.

Full Review Source: New York Magazine | comment Comment
01/12/09
Miranda Siegel
New York Magazine
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What helps the film rise above the level of a photographed college lecture is the director's inventive and playful presentation.

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05/04/07
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter
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A delightful two-and-a-half-hour repast for mindful film junkies.

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04/26/07
Ty Burr
Boston Globe
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If you love movies, this is a must-see.

Full Review Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press | comment Comment
04/19/07
Chris Hewitt (St. Paul)
St. Paul Pioneer Press

Here's a film guaranteed to make you smarter than all your friends for 48 hours, or at least feel like you are.

Full Review Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune | comment Comment
04/19/07
Colin Covert
Minneapolis Star Tribune
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Brisk, entertaining and, yes, intense.

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10/18/06
Rich Cline
Shadows on the Wall

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.

Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
10/07/06
Peter Bradshaw
Guardian [UK]

While this is fun, it’s hardly sprocket science.

Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
10/06/06
David Parkinson
Empire Magazine

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?

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
10/03/06
Tom Dawson
BBC

How you perceive classics from directors as wide-ranging as Lynch, Coppola and Tarkovsky might be richened.

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09/23/06
Globe and Mail
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When [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.

Full Review Source: MovieMartyr.com | comment Comment
09/23/06
Jeremy Heilman
MovieMartyr.com

A virtuoso marriage of image and thought.

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09/18/06
Eddie Cockrell
Variety
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