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The Pervert's Guide Collection
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
A hilarious introduction, using as examples some of the best films ever made, to some of Slovenian philosopher and psychoanalyst Slavoj Žižek's most exciting ideas on personal subjectivity, fantasy and reality, desire and sexuality.
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- The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
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- EN
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deepkino
Sep 18, 2025 · via TMDB
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema: A Lacanian Laughter! Slavoj Žižek’s The Pervert's Guide to Cinema isn't a film review; it's a wild, intellectual odyssey into the ideological and unconscious fantasies that lie beneath the surface of cinema. Žižek, inhabits the very cinematic spaces he is dissecting, from the toilet in The Matrix to the couch from A Clockwork Orange, to deliver a masterclass in Lacanian psychoanalysis. He views films not as stories but as reflections of our deepest desires and ideological traps, arguing for instance, that the true perversion of The Matrix is not the red or blue pill, but the "big Other"—the ideological frame that governs our every move. What makes this dense theoretical exercise accessible and wildly entertaining is Žižek’s relentless and unpredictable humor. His delivery, filled with nervous tics and absurd anecdotes, serves as a vital release valve, preventing the dense theory from becoming a purely academic lecture. This blend of philosophical gravity and personal buffoonery makes his intellectual arguments both memorable and surprisingly clear. Ultimately, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema is a singular cinematic experience. It's a challenging but deeply rewarding documentary, proving that the most profound insights are often found in the most unexpected and comical of places.
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Slavoj Žižek
Self - Host / Philosopher
Alfred Hitchcock
Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Sophie Fiennes
Camera Operator
Sophie Fiennes
Director
Marek Kráľovský
Additional Editor
Sophie Fiennes
Editor
Marek Kráľovský
Online Editor
Kees Kasander
Co-Producer
Sophie Fiennes
Producer
Brian Eno
Original Music Composer
Slavoj Žižek
Writer
God's Ways
The Aviatrix
Stafford's Story
The Wedding at Cana
Madame Winger Makes a Film: A Survival Guide for the 21st Century
Die von der Sanitätskolonne
FUNNY little STORIES
Jon Stewart: Unleavened
Last Fast Ride: The Life, Love and Death of a Punk Goddess
In fabbrica
On Native Soil
Unfinished Diary
Melek Leaves
Lost in Lebanon
Coup 53
Lex Barker - Westernheld und Playboy
Tupac: Resurrection
News from a Personal War
The Pixar Story
Waiting for August
We Were Once Kids
This Is It
A Better Man
It Conquered Hollywood! The Story of American International Pictures
Grey Gardens
In Country
QT8: The First Eight
Deliver Us from Evil
The Story of the Weeping Camel
Art and Craft
Lost in La Mancha
The War Tapes
Good Game
Toots
Daddy I Do
The Homestretch
Zapatista Women
Les voyages de L'Atalante
Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story
Born into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids
Making Apes: The Artists Who Changed Film
Wild Session
Full Metal Village
McLibel
France / Tour / Detour / Two / Children
1971
And... We've Got Sabor
Dark Matter
Underwater Dreams
Flow: For Love of Water
School of Babel
The Prince of Nothingwood
Es geht um Alles
Space Station 3D
The Phantom of the Operator
Profilers: Gaze Into the Abyss
India Cabaret
The Business of Being Born
I'm Going to Santiago
Women with Eyes Open
Prisoner
Lo specchio di Diana
Beyond Right & Wrong: Stories of Justice and Forgiveness
Fanalysis
Buba
Prisoners of War
Junior
Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown
Come and Work
When I Will Be Dictator
The Murmuring
Out of State
LSD: The Beyond Within
On Coal River
This Is My Land
Refugee
Daughter of the Crater
What the #$*! Do We (K)now!?
Cartoonists: Footsoldiers of Democracy
Mouseholes
Linar
Who Is Bernard Tapie?
The Ring Thing
These Heathen Dreams
Liquid Love
John Ford & Monument Valley
One Thousand Days in Saigon
Patron
Britain's Holocaust Survivors
Tough Love
Asparagus! Stalking the American Life
Good Stewards
Isabel Allende: A Thousand and One Voices
In Free Fall
The World's Smallest Fair
Tour of Duty
Oil & Water
The Cult Next Door
Two Hitlers
Vera Klement: Blunt Edge
Tribal Justice
Adele and Everything After
Traces, empreintes de femmes
Home Truth
Standed
The Welles Raft
Terra Femme
Last Days of Life
Grandmas Project – Marillenknödel
Léa devant la caméra
Daughters of the Forest
Pebbles in the Flood
Lots's wife
Bust of a poet
Emiliana de Zubeldia
Bir Kısa Filmin Öyküsü
The Crying of the Sea
Gealtra
Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition
Disclosure
Jodorowsky's Dune
The Skywalker Legacy
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
Spielberg
The Pervert's Guide to Ideology
Side by Side
Hitchcock/Truffaut
Love, Gilda
The Director and the Jedi
To Be Takei
In the Realms of the Unreal
Milius
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
Friedkin Uncut
Corman's World
The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing
What Is a Woman?
Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound
Woody Allen: A Documentary
Obi-Wan Kenobi: A Jedi's Return
Halftime
Cameraperson
Altman
Love, Marilyn
Heart of a Dog
X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time
Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
This Changes Everything
Seduced and Abandoned
Room 237
Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!
Jan 16, 2009
