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Zizek!
''Zizek!'' or ''Žižek!'', is a 2005 documentary film directed by Astra Taylor. An international co-production of the United States and Canada, its subject is philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek, a prolific author and former candidate for the Presidency of Slovenia. ''Zizek!'' premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival on September 11, 2005 and opened in one theatre in New York City on November 17. It eventually grossed $20,177 in the US and $20,154 in foreign markets for a total worldwide box office of $40,331. Critical reception A. O. Scott of ''The New York Times'' observed, "Ms. Taylor, clearly thrilled by her proximity to her hero, seems incapable of the analytical distance that would provide insight into either his ideas or the cultural phenomenon he represents. On the basis of this film, it is hard to know whether Mr. Žižek's superstar status is merited, or to say what his cult says about the state of contemporary thought. ''Zizek!'' is ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slavoj Žižek
Slavoj Žižek (, ; ; born 21 March 1949) is a Slovenian philosopher, cultural theorist and public intellectual. He is international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London, visiting professor at New York University and a senior researcher at the University of Ljubljana's Department of Philosophy. He primarily works on continental philosophy (particularly Hegelianism, psychoanalysis and Marxism) and political theory, as well as film criticism and theology. Žižek is the most famous associate of the Ljubljana School of Psychoanalysis, a group of Slovenian academics working on German Idealism, Lacanian psychoanalysis, ideology critique, and media criticism. His breakthrough work was 1989's ''The Sublime Object of Ideology'', his first book in English, which was decisive in the introduction of the Ljubljana School's thought to English-speaking audiences. He has written over 50 books in multiple languages. The idiosyncratic style of his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lawrence Konner
Lawrence Konner is an American screenwriter, producer and film director. Konner has written over twenty-five feature films, including ''Mona Lisa Smile'', ''Planet of the Apes'', ''The Legend of Billie Jean'', ''The Jewel of the Nile'', and '' Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country''. Konner’s writing for television spans over forty-five years. His works include the HBO series ''The Sopranos'', for which Konner earned an Emmy nomination in 2001, and '' Boardwalk Empire'', for which he received the WGA Award for Best New Series in 2010. He was also nominated for an Emmy for his work as writer and executive producer on the 2016 miniseries ''Roots''. Other television credits include ''Family'' and ''Little House on the Prairie''. In 1995, Konner produced and directed a documentary short, ''One Thing I Know'', which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and won the Special Jury Prize at the USA Film Festival. In 2003, through his indepe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astra Taylor
Astra Taylor (born September 30, 1979) is a Canadian-American documentary filmmaker, writer, activist, and musician. She is a fellow of the Shuttleworth Foundation for her work on challenging predatory practices around debt. Life Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Taylor grew up in Athens, Georgia,http://www.hiddendriver.com/about Astra Taylor's official bio, accessed February 8, 2009 and was unschooled until age 13 when she enrolled in ninth grade. At 16 she abandoned high school to attend classes at the University of Georgia; at the university she studied Deleuze and Guattari under Ronald L. Bogue. She has described herself as a "teenage Deleuzian." Taylor enrolled at Brown University, where she attended classes for a year before dropping out. Reflecting on her decision to leave, Taylor stated "Why had I felt compelled to enroll in an Ivy League school, to excel by the standards of conventional education and choose a 'difficult' major, instead of making my own way? What was I afra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Toronto International Film Festival
The 30th Toronto International Film Festival ran from September 8–17 and screened 335 films from 52 countries - 109 of these films were world premieres, and 78 were North American premieres. Awards At the Festival's closing event, the following prizes were awarded: * The People's Choice Award, presented to Gavin Hood's ''Tsotsi''. * The Discovery Award, presented to Sarah Watt's '' Look Both Ways''. * The Fipresci Prize, presented to South Korean director Kang Yi-kwan for ''Sa-kwa''. * A tie for the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature, presented to Louise Archambault's '' Familia'' and Michael Mabbott's ''The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico''. * The Toronto – City Award for Best Canadian Feature Film, presented to ''C.R.A.Z.Y.'' directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. * The Bravo!FACT Short Cuts Canada Award, presented to Renuka Jeyapalan's '' Big Girl'' (Honourable mention to Andrea Dorfman's '' There's a Flower in My Pedal''). Because the vote for the People's Choice Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pervert's Guide To Ideology
''The Pervert's Guide to Ideology'' is a 2012 British documentary film directed by Sophie Fiennes and written and presented by Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek. It is a sequel to Fiennes's 2006 documentary ''The Pervert's Guide to Cinema''. Though the film follows the frameworks of its predecessor, this film's emphasis is on ideology itself. Through psychoanalysis Žižek explores "the mechanisms that shape what we believe and how we behave." Among the films explored are ''Full Metal Jacket'' and ''Taxi Driver''. The film was released in the United States by Zeitgeist Films in November 2013. Synopsis Žižek appears transplanted into the scenes of various movies, exploring and exposing how they reinforce prevailing ideologies. As the ideologies undergirding cinematic fantasies are revealed, striking associations emerge: from nuns advising following your desires at ''The Sound of Music'' to the political dimensions of ''Jaws''. ''Taxi Driver'', ''Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s English-language Films
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Films About Philosophy
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitiz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2005 Documentary Films
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Canadian Documentary Films
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American Documentary Films
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