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Zizek - and don't get me wrong, I loved The Pervert's Guide to Cinema; it's truly a grand entertainment - then raises a series of actually quite pertinent questions about the depiction of the East German regime and the character of Dreymann, the writer played by Sebastian Koch, before veering around an unlikely corner: [I] n Lives, it is the woman, Christa-Maria, who breaks down and betrays her husband.

GreenCine Daily: Zizek on Lives. 2007

The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, one of the most entertaining ways a cinephile can spend two and a half hours, is making its way around the country, and San Franciscans can catch it at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, now through Sunday afternoon.

GreenCine Daily: Interview. Sophie Fiennes. 2007

"Zizek! is a painful film, almost the record of a philosophical nervous breakdown," writes Johann Hari in the New Statesman (which, for whatever reason, chooses to illustrate the review with a shot from The Pervert's Guide to Cinema).

GreenCine Daily: Hari and the pomos. 2007

Gerald Peary alerts Boston Phoenix readers to Sophie Fiennes's three-part BBC video series The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, a sampling of [Slavoj] Zizek's more accessible pronouncements on movies.

GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 4/4. 2007

The Pervert's Guide to Ideology is in the works, to be followed perhaps by The Pervert's Guide to Opera.

GreenCine Daily: NYT, 4/15. 2007

Related: Roger Clarke on the making of Carrie in the Independent, where, in a piece on The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, Sophie Fiennes tells Liz Hoggard, "I agree with Zizek when he says the true cinematic pleasure resides in the 'libidinal density of cinematic form itself', and it's actually very mysterious."

GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts. 2006

"Until some ballsy distributor decides to wage a 'fair use' battle against studio copyright holders, it may be that the Sophie Fiennes doc The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, in which the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek discourses about film, politics, desire and theory, will be little seen in the U. S," writes Filmmaker's Scott Macaulay.

GreenCine Daily: Shorts, 11/5. 2006

The latest one available on DVD is The Pervert's Guide to Cinema; which the picture with the New Statesman review is taken from.

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The latest one available on DVD is The Pervert's Guide to Cinema; which the picture with the New Statesman review is taken from.

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A student confided to Professor Confidante about Professor Pervert's conduct.

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