The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema 1,2,3
… presented by Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst, is simply a gift to all film teachers. In three parts Zizek takes us on a Freudian, but not only, trip through wonderful clips that he comments on from his point of view, turning everything upside down, in a very demanding and inspiring lecture, full of humour with the lecturer ”placed” by the director Sophie Fiennes on a boat near the location of Hitchcock’s ”The Birds”, in the house where ”Psycho” was shot, in the bathroom that Gene Hackmann was in when ”The Conversation” by Coppola was shot and so on.
Indispensable in film teaching and for film lovers in general, because this dvd is so well constructed: It goes in three parts that you can run separately, and within these parts you can find a chapter that will be useful or joyful, or both, for you.
And it is so full of clips from the ones mentioned above, but also David Lynch, Tarkovsky, Bergman, von Trier, Marx Brothers and the one who is better than the rest of them: Charlie Chaplin. Zizek loves films and he really can tell us what he thinks. Buy it!
England/Austria, 2006, director: Sophie Fiennes, 150 mins.
