Top billed cast

1. 

   Slavoj Žižek

   Self - Host / Philosopher

2. 

   Alfred Hitchcock

   Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

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Reviews

A review by deepkino

Written by deepkino on 2025-09-18

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 ...read the rest

Recommendations

1. The Pervert's Guide to Ideology73%
2. Cameraperson67%
3. Jodorowsky's Dune78%
4. In the Realms of the Unreal71%
5. Room 23761%
6. Hitchcock/Truffaut72%
7. Corman's World70%
8. The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing70%
9. Seduced and Abandoned61%
10. Attack of the Hollywood Clichés!60%
11. Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound69%
12. Milius70%
13. Miss Representation69%
14. X-Rated: The Greatest Adult Movies of All Time63%
15. Tricked: The Documentary61%
16. Side by Side72%
17. Spielberg75%
18. Public Speaking70%
19. Disclosure78%
20. The Queen of Versailles69%

Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• cinema on cinema
• philosophy
• pop culture
• psychoanalysis
• documentary filmmaking
• woman director
• cinema history