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Dirty minds. Notepads at the ready, fact fans. Despite its obviously provocative title (I mean, honestly, what’s wrong with sitting in a darkened room spying on people?), Sophie Fiennes’ kinetic documentary is a must for all film buffs wanting to get all psychoanalytical over the likes of Hitchcock, Coppola, Lynch and Kubrick. Slovenian theorist/commentator/film-lover Slavoj Zizek is our super-enthusiastic guide through clips of a plethora of great films – The Birds, The Conversation, Solaris, Blue Velvet and so on – coupled with some quirky modes of delivering his essays on the films, like building a replica set of The Matrix so he can sit and ponder in Neo’s armchair. A lot of thought from both Zizek and Fiennes has gone into this - it’s fast paced and info packed, the perfect counterpart to docs or TV programmes that purport to be about cinema yet slip into boring old celebrity worship. A complete film geek-out, in the nicest, most lively sense. The Pervert’s Guide To Cinema, out now on DVD and available from thepervertsguide.com.
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