jill-from-london's - Rented List
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Taking philosophy out of the books and classrooms and putting it back onto the streets, Examined Life accompanies some of the world's most influential thinkers in places and spaces that reflect and resonate their ideas. Peter Singer dissects the ethics of consumption against the backdrop of Fifth Avenue's extravagant stores. Man's relationship with environment is theorised by the 'Elvis of cultural theory', Slavoj Zizek, in a recycling centre. Judith Butler takes in San Francisco's Mission District with a friend as they question society's complex and often awkward relationship with disability. In New York, Cornel West - perhaps America's best known public intellectual - vividly compares philosophy to jazz and blues within a backdrop of Manhattan as he drives through the streets, reminding us that great ideas are born of engaging with the hustle and bustle around us. Offering privileged moments with great thinkers from fields ranging from moral philosophy to cultural theory, Examined Life explores the way we see the world and philosophy's ability to influence it. - Director:
- Astra Taylor
- Cast:
- K. Anthony Appiah, Judith Butler, Michael Hardt
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La Jetée / Sans Soleil (1983)The Pier / Sun Less
One of the most influential, radical science-fiction films ever made and a mind-bending free-form travelogue, 'La Jetee' and 'Sans Soleil' couldn't seem more different - but they're the twin pillars of an unparalleled and uncompromising career in cinema. Filmmaker, poet, novelist, photographer, editor, videographer, and digital multimedia artist, Chris Marker challenged moviegoers, philosophers, and himself for years with his investigations of time, memory, and the rapid advancement of life on this planet. These two films - a tale of time travel told in still images and a journey to Africa and Japan - remain his best-loved and most widely seen.
La Jetee (1962)
This unique film was the inspiration for Terry Gilliam's 'Twelve Monkeys'. It is a cinematic landmark using black and white stills almost entirely to narrate the story. Set in Paris destroyed by a third world war, the survivors have been forced to retreat underground where scientists conduct strange time travel experiments to escape from a terrible present to a better past or future...
Sans Soleil (1983)
Director Chris Marker takes the viewer into a different dimension, weaving footage from Japan, Africa, Iceland, France and the USA to produce a study of 'the dreams of the human race'. He is particularly attracted to the two extremes of Japan and Africa, and discusses the images that he creates with the woman, ever mindful of the astonishing store of memory he has created.- Director:
- Chris Marker
- Cast:
- Jean Négroni, Jean Négroni, Davos Hanich
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"Drive" is the story of a Hollywood stunt driver by day (Ryan Gosling), a loner by nature, who moonlights as a top-notch getaway driver-for-hire in the criminal underworld. He finds himself a target for some of LA's most dangerous men after agreeing to aid the husband of his beautiful neighbour, Irene (Carey Mulligan). When the job goes dangerously awry, the only way he can keep Irene and her son alive is to do what he does best - Drive! - Director:
- Nicolas Winding Refn
- Cast:
- Ryan Gosling, Ralph Lawler, Carey Mulligan
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