hell all,

anybody see sophie fiennes "pervert's guide to cinema" ? it features the Lacanian philospher Zizek from Slovenia analyzing
cinema, our desires, and the entangled worlds of illusion, fantasy , realities.

just watched it partially thru a second time with a bunch of filmmakers who got quickly bored with it... though it Was after watching
a few other clips first... and i think the attention for media had dwindled in general.

though i did also find it this time a somewhat mainstreaming/popularizing of his ideas (if that's possible), and if you are familiar with him,
you may start to wish he'd taken it further into more obscure film territory.

the film excerpts clips Are from a pretty wide range: hitchcock, chaplin, lynch, tarkovsky, marx brothers, coppola, etc.
and has some exceptional moments, especially since it seems very timely to psychoanalyze the cinema in sociological contexts.

After researching this a bit i also discovered a new book called Endless Nights: cinema and psychoanalysis, parallel histories
... a collected essays on the subject:

www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6945.html

anyway, i could pursue a number of angles for discussion about these topics , but i'll just throw this info out first.

and if yur in the bay area , pervert's guide is playing at the roxie ( one more nite?):

www.roxie.com/events/details.cfm


ciao,
pod