Derrida the movie

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"What if someone came along who CHANGED not the way you THINK about everything, but EVERYTHING about the way you think?"

http://www.derridathemovie.com/home.html

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

The only person I know who has seen this (and who knows Derrida personally) says it's very good. I still can't quite believe it exists at all!!

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:21 (twenty-three years ago)

The scarier thing is that there are TWO Derrida movies.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I think the tagline should have been:

OUTSIDE THE TEXT, NO ONE CAN HEAR YOU SCREAM

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 17:37 (twenty-three years ago)

*weeps tears of laughter at JtN's post*

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 18:01 (twenty-three years ago)

why isn't the movie called "Hors Latitudes"

― J0hn Darn13ll3 (J0hn Darn13ll3), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 18:10 (twenty-three years ago)

And why is it Sakamoto doing the soundtrack not Scritti Politti?

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 18:17 (twenty-three years ago)

if i laugh at a derrida joke does that make me lame?

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 20 November 2002 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

Has anyone else seen it? I'm curious what people who haven't spent three years of their life studying JD make of it. FWIW I enjoyed watching JD hanging out etc., and spotting people I knew in the background, but I felt the film didn't do him many favours. If you didn't know much about who JD was beforehand, I can't imagine you'd come away thinking 'I must read me some of that'.

― alext (alext), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:14 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm going to try this week Alex, and my Derrida knowledge is shaky so I hopefully can let you know. I think it might just be a film about acreepy old guy acting like a knob a bit. But I could be wrong.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:39 (twenty-three years ago)

No, that's 'About Schmidt' Pete.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh when are you going Pete, I fancy going to see it too...

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 February 2003 17:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I tried to get into this movie last night with my brother, who is an English prof specialised in Derrida. It was sold out. My brother said that his feelings about Derrida were the opposite of the tagline:

'What if someone came along who expressed the way you already think, but put it a bit better than you could?'

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 February 2003 18:05 (twenty-three years ago)

Momus's brother picture SHOCKAH! He looks a bit like Ewan Macgregor, somehow.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:02 (twenty-three years ago)

He's David Beckham with a brain where the football should be.

― Momus (Momus), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:13 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/reviews/problem/8/nickbb/box_nbb.gif

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 24 February 2003 19:16 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't seen the Derrida flick (either of 'em), but i have seen Jean-Francois Lyotard in a biking outift.

Not pretty.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 05:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Matt has seen Lyotard's leotard!

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I think its in the 20 seater at the ICa = sells out when a fat man buys a ticket.

Maybe late Thursday Sarah if its on after 8-ish (I have school). I'll let you know, I have a favour to ask you anyway.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 11:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Yay! Andrew picked up the joke just where i left it! Huzzah!

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Tuesday, 25 February 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

two weeks pass...

i saw this last night

the director did a lot of cheeseball philosophy/film class 101 type things ie. scuttling the camera back and forth between derrida and derrida's reflection in the mirror while he talked about narcissism etc

meanwhile he did a lot of "now i will talk about [x]..." and proceded to talk about the act of talking about the thing without ever getting to the thing itself

is this what makes him a genius? i dont know enough about deconstructionism to say

i liked some of his insights on love and biography and narcissism but to my uneducated mind they seemed hopelessly facile and thus i'm convinced there's like six other levels that i'm not getting him on

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 17 March 2003 15:01 (twenty-three years ago)

six months pass...

i also saw this last night, except my last night was a different one to mark p's.

i didn't think it was very good.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 08:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw this awhile ago and like mark p, thought the fawning direction was juvenille. Especially the interjection of Derrida quotes in places where they really didn't fit. As if the director was saying "here, this is what he means, SEE?" Like she was trying to force some context around the film but failing.

All the parts of Derrida just speaking extemporaneously were nice though.

― bnw (bnw), Wednesday, 1 October 2003 09:06 (twenty-two years ago)

three months pass...

I liked the bit where Derrida says he doesn't get dressed but instead does his work in his pajamas.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 18 January 2004 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"Jackie?? Did you spell difference with an A??"

hahaha

(also: nice butterfly hair clips on Avital Ronell)

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Sunday, 18 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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