The Pervert's Guide to Cinema

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Sophie Fiennes
Written by	Slavoj Žižek
Produced by	Sophie Fiennes Georg Misch Martin Rosenbaum Ralph Wieser
Starring	Slavoj Žižek
Cinematography	Remko Schnorr
Edited by	Sophie Fiennes Marek Kralovsky Ethel Shepherd
Music by	Brian Eno
Production companies	Mischief Films Amoeba Film
Distributed by	P Guide Ltd. ICA Projects (UK)
Release dates	17 June 2006 (2006-06-17) (Sydney Film Festival) 16 January 2009 (2009-01-16) (United States)
Running time	150 minutes
Countries	United Kingdom Austria Netherlands
Language	English

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

• Examined Life
• Jacques Lacan
• Marx Reloaded
• Liebe Dein Symptom wie Dich selbst!
• The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
• The Reality of the Virtual
• Žižek!

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
• Complete transcript of the first part with added commentary and stills.