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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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shaw, Dan" <[log in to unmask]> Date: Sunday, March 25, 2007 3:36 pm Subject: Re: Explicit deep philosophy in movies To: [log in to unmask] > 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. > > > > There is also a nice piece on Eternal Sunshine and Nietzsche's > Eternal Return in the 2007 Volume 11 of Film and Philosophy. > > > "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 > > Daniel Shaw > Professor of Philosophy and Film > Lock Haven University > Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy > website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw > > > ________________________________ > > From: Film-Philosophy Salon on behalf of Becky Vartabedian > Sent: Sun 3/25/2007 2:47 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Explicit deep philosophy in movies > > > 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. > > > On 3/25/07, Nicola Hopkins <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > Linklater's films esp Waking Life, Before Sunrise/Sunset > > * > * > Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message > you are replying to. > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] > For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. > ** > > > > * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' > please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To > leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: > [log in to unmask] For help email: > [log in to unmask], not the salon. ** > > * > * > Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. > After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message > you are replying to. > To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] > For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. > ** * * Film-Philosophy Email Discussion Salon. After hitting 'reply' please always delete the text of the message you are replying to. To leave, send the message: leave film-philosophy to: [log in to unmask] For help email: [log in to unmask], not the salon. **