Audrey Hepburn plays a philosopher in "Funny Face," but I wouldn't call it deep philosophy.
Peter Caws
University Professor of Philosophy
The George Washington University
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From: "Shaw, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:36 pm
Subject: Re: Explicit deep philosophy in movies
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> One of my favorites, a deep exploration of the Heideggerean concept of
> authenticity, is Woody Allen's Another Woman. How many protagonists
> in mainstream films are philosophers (Gena Rowlands plays one here)?
> Sander Lee has an insightful chapter on it in his book on Woody Allen.
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> There is also a nice piece on Eternal Sunshine and Nietzsche's
> Eternal Return in the 2007 Volume 11 of Film and Philosophy.
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> "For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and
> why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us"
> Rilke's First Duino Elegy
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> Daniel Shaw
> Professor of Philosophy and Film
> Lock Haven University
> Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
> website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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> Also recommended: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (as
> Christopher Grau has recently written in "Eternal Sunshine of the
> Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory" in the December 06 issue of
> the Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism) & Stranger than Fiction,
> which deals well with a variety of philosophical themes.
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> On 3/25/07, Nicola Hopkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Linklater's films esp Waking Life, Before Sunrise/Sunset
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