This is referring, I'm sure, to the new film by Kirby Dick (the maker of the
superb docu, ``Sick'') and Amy Ziering Kofman, ``Derrida.'' It's my favorite
non-fiction film in 2002 (thus far), an ingenious, self-reflexive portrait
(on both the artists' and subject's part) of Derrida at his most thoughtful
and most quotidian. It's not, as I feared, a cheapening of Derrida or a
dumbing-down, but, as Manny Farber might term it, a termite's view of the
man, a view that has little of the academic about it and a great deal of the
purely curious and open-minded. ``Derrida'' is a film that increases each
day after viewing, instead of receding from the mind as far too many new
films do. In other words, it is in the class this year with ``Japon,
``Blissfully Yours,'' ``Russian Ark,'' ``The Piano Teacher,'' ``Time Out''
and ``What Time is it There?''
Robert Koehler
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Subject: Derrida
> For those who can get BBC News24, Talking Movies have a short segment
> on a recent documentary about Jacques Derrida -- tonight, Sat 9
> November 2002, 10.30pm UK time.
>
> http://www.bbc.co.uk
> http://www.derridathemovie.com/home.html
>
> see also
> http://frif.com/new2001/derr.html
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