The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

2006 British film
  • 17 June 2006 (2006-06-17) (Sydney Film Festival)
  • 16 January 2009 (2009-01-16) (United States)
Running time
150 minutesCountriesUnited Kingdom
Austria
NetherlandsLanguageEnglish

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a 2006 documentary directed and produced by Sophie Fiennes, and scripted and presented by Slavoj Žižek. It explores a number of films from a psychoanalytic theoretical perspective.

Fiennes and Žižek released a follow-up, The Pervert's Guide to Ideology on 15 November 2012,[1] with a similar format; Žižek speaks from within reconstructed scenes from films.[2]

List of films discussed

  • Possessed (1931)
  • Monkey Business (1931)
  • Frankenstein (1931)
  • City Lights (1931)
  • Duck Soup (1933)
  • The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
  • Pluto's Judgement Day (1935)
  • The Wizard of Oz (1939)
  • The Great Dictator (1940)
  • Saboteur (1942)
  • Dead of Night (1945)
  • The Red Shoes (1948)
  • Kubanskie Kazaki (1949)
  • Alice in Wonderland (1951)
  • Rear Window (1954)
  • To Catch a Thief (1955)
  • The Ten Commandments (1956)
  • Vertigo (1958)
  • Ivan the Terrible: Part II (1958)
  • North by Northwest (1959)
  • Psycho (1960)
  • The Birds (1963)
  • Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
  • Seconds (1966)
  • Persona (1966)
  • Solaris (1972)
  • The Exorcist (1973)
  • The Conversation (1974)
  • Alien (1979)
  • Stalker (1979)
  • Dune (1984)
  • Blue Velvet (1986)
  • Wild at Heart (1990)
  • Three Colors: Blue (1993)
  • Lost Highway (1997)
  • Alien: Resurrection (1997)
  • The Matrix (1999)
  • Fight Club (1999)
  • Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  • Mulholland Drive (2001)
  • The Piano Teacher (2001)
  • In the Cut (2003)
  • Dogville (2003)
  • Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (2005)

Reception

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema holds an 87% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, based on reviews from 23 critics.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ Savage, Sophia (14 October 2011). "Pervert's Guide to Cinema's Fiennes and Zizek Reteam for Pervert's Guide to Ideology". IndieWire. Archived from the original on 27 February 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  2. ^ Leigh, Danny (16 October 2011). "Slavoj Žižek: Blofeld rides again". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2021.
  3. ^ "The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)". Rotten Tomatoes. Archived from the original on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2017.

External links

  • Official website
  • The Pervert's Guide to Cinema at IMDb Edit this at Wikidata
  • Complete transcript of the first part with added commentary and stills.