Philosophy on Film

I was trying to read up on Heidegger/Holderlin (I was doing something really dull ok) and I came across The Ister, which looks amazing.

Any more films that do philosophy in a cinematic way?

There is a long discussion with a philosopher in Godard's Vivre Sa Vie.

to a degree, Resnais' Mon Oncle d'Amerique, tho heavy on biology/brain function

Was thinking more of staright-ish docs (http://homevideo.icarusfilms.com/new2005/ist.html) but yes that Resnais film does use ideas from one specific psychologist. I suppose Makavajev's W.R is in that ballpark.

I know it's another stretch, but wazzbaout recent Hannah Arendt biopic?

From the sounds of that film it didn't spend much time engaging with any ideas.

Unless we want to talk about fiction movies that have philosophical themes in them, it's hard to think of good examples. There's the Derrida movie, but the philosophical interest of that one is probably just Derrida's own remarks, despite some attempts at meta stuff.

There are a ton of films with philosophical themes in them. I was thinking of this thread around a series of lectures (as in the example) and tries to convey some of the flavour of the thought as a film. If the Derrida film focuses on his ideas rather than personality that could work.

There is Kluge's Marx-Eisenstein project. Ten hours of it!

http://newleftreview.org/II/58/fredric-jameson-marx-and-montage

It doesn't sound that good. There is an 80 min theatrical cut - a good 3/4 hours might've been 'better'.