Interview. Sophie Fiennes.

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. A fine supplement is Cathleen Rountree's interview with director Sophie Fiennes.

"As in his books, here [Slavoj] Zizek will often take a basic question or proposition (such as 'Why is the only good woman a dead woman?' - when discussing Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo), and turn it inside out, revealing the hidden issue that was actually being addressed or occluded all along ('Because men contain the threat of desire by mortifying their objects of desire: women')." In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Matt Sussman describes what to expect and recommends you give it a go. "Zizek's combination of disarming charisma and utter seriousness makes him as entrancing as his arguments are compelling."

Earlier: Steven Shaviro and Johann Hari each take a couple of shots at Zizek but from entirely different angles. More on Zizek's defense of 300 from Daniel, k-punk, Zach Campbell and David Marin-Guzman.

Posted by dwhudson at May 3, 2007 9:55 PM