I'm not sure whether this has been mentioned yet but I remember watching an
impressive and thoughtful film (1983) by director/writer Ken McMullen,
Ghost Dance, in which Derrida appeared as himself.
regards
michaelP
> Here's what I have so far, combining titles suggested by film-philosophers,
> and titles I had seen and other titles I've gleaned by searching the
> internet. (I've put a star by the ones that obviously fit - and I'm most
> interested for now in Western Philosophers - and a question mark next to
> things that are dubious for my purposes, since what I'm really looking for
> are prominent representations of philosophers AS philosophers, not just
> characters who happen to be philosophers by profession or degree -- and I'm
> not really that interested in PBS style educational programs on
> philosophers). Anything obvious or important that I'm missing?
>
> Philosophers on film:
>
> Features:
> *Another Woman (Marion as Heidegger scholar)
> *Wittgenstein, dir. by Derek Jarman
> ?Annie Hall (Marshall McLuhan as himself)
> *Crimes and Misdemeanors (Professor Louis Levy, modelled after Primo Levi?)
> *Waking Life (Robert Solomon as himself)
> *Vivre sa Vie (Brice Parain as himself)
> *Sartre, l'age des Passions (fictional French TV series about Sartre and
Beauvoir)
> ?Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (Socrates)
> ?Sideways (ex-husband of Madsen's character is a philosophy professor, she
> states that the reason their marriage fell apart is b/c she gradually
> realized he was a 'fraud')
> ?Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix: Revolutions (Cornel West as council member)
> ?Slacker (Louis Mackey as anarchist)
> *When Nietzsche Wept
> *Al di la del bene e del male (Beyond Good and Evil), 1977, dir. by Liliana
Cavani
> *Le Socrate, dir. Robert Lapoujade (1968)
> *Socrate (1971), dir. Roberto Rossellini
> *Blaise Pascal (1972), dir. Roberto Rossellini
> *Agostino d'Ippona (1972), dir. Roberto Rossellini
> *Cartesius (1974), dir. Roberto Rossellini
> *Conte de Printemps/Tale of Springtime, dir. Eric Rohmer (Jeanne as a
> philosophy teacher)
> *Iris, dir. Richard Eyre (about Iris Murdoch)
> *Tom and Viv, dir. Brian Gilbert (about T.S. Eliot and wife Vivian Haigh-Wood)
> *The Passion of Ayn Rand, dir. by Christopher Menaul
> ?Flight from Destiny (1941), dir. Vincent Sherman (about a philosophy
> professor who is going to die and decides to kill someone who harms society)
> ?Losing Ground, 1982, dir. Kathleen Collins (about a Black American female
> philosophy professor whose husband is cheating on her and she decides to
explore.)
> *I Heart Huckabees, dir. David O. Russell
> ?Lost in Translation, dir. Sophia Coppola
>
> Documentaries:
> *Zizek!, dir. Astra Taylor
> *The Pervert's Guide to the Cinema, dir. Sophie Fiennes
> *Derrida, dir. Kirby Dick and Amy Kofman
> *The Examined Life, dir. Astra Taylor
> *The Ister
> *Sartre by Himself
> McLuhan's Wake
> A Voice in the Wilderness: Edward Abbey
> *Dias de Nietzsche em Turim, dir. Julio Bressane
> The Last Dream of Maurice Merleau-Ponty
> Disorder is 20 Years Old, (with Sartre and Beauvoir)
> *A Wonderful Life (about Wittgenstein), dir. by Christopher Sykes
> A Parliament of Minds: Philosophy for a New Millenium (2000), Michael Tobias
> Philosophy: A Guide to Happiness, (with Alain de Botton) (2000 TV)
> Cognoscenti: The Admirable Life of Eli Khamarov (1996)
> Guide to the Perplexed (2006), on Moses Maimonides, dir. by Yigal Bursztyn
> The Great Philosophers (1987), BBC Mini-series, Brian Magee
> Aime Cesaire: A Voice for History
> A State of Blackness: Aime Cesaire's Way
> Leopold Sedar Sengor
> Un Chant Negre, Leopold Sedar Senghor
> Lumieres Noires
> Un Bandung culturel: le congres des ecrivains et artistes noirs en 1956
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