Philosopher and theorist Slavoj Žižek stopped by the Criterion offices and the DVD closet! Shop Slavoj's Closet Picks! www.criterion.com/shop/collec...
@@tichbyte9352 Means he is smarter than right-wing trash, so they have to say things like he's "hard to understand' or likes "weirdo stuff" (even though these are some of the most univerally lauded filmmakers of all time to anyone with an interest in true cinema.)
"It's one of those nice, gently French movies where you have incest which is portrayed as a nice secret between mother and son. I like this." Amazing sentence.
Exactly like he shouldnt even be on this shit. It's just proof Criterion and this dude are just tools. He sold out so he gets his 15minutes. Doesn't matter he speaks total bullshit drivel and is actually an idiot. Most people are stupider so it comes off okay.
@@petewenzel2725 I think he meant to say "who" instead of "which", but I kind of hope that he instead meant that the movie is a failure in every other sense apart from being his favorite, because that's insane. Either way, it's hilarious.
It's amazing how without any prompting whatsoever, Zizek is able to just conduct an intensive discussion with himself for five minutes without even breaking a sweat.
@@vaahtobileet I think the point is that once asked a question he goes on for 5 minutes essentially having a conversation with his own internal monologue making himself seem a bit mad. its like if somone asked you if you liked strawberries while you stand there silently and 5 minutes later the other person is talking about a documentary about the hardships of mexican fruitpickers in Ontario and why mexicans pick fruit so much.
@@krel3358 He was asked about his favorite films because it's well-known that he's able to talk at length about the subject (he's made at least two documentaries about movies?) They didn't arbitrarily ask him about a random subject.
It’s so weird: the world’s most famous anti-capitalist writer, who has made two movies and written hundreds of pages about movies and capitalism, is talking about capitalism in an interview about movies
One of the greatest advantages of Zizec being a figure that appears often on the net is that we can find him talking about Hegel for 9 hours, debating Jordan Peterson, devouring two hotdogs one on each hand, and talking about his favorite movies. Best of all, he's one hell of a character with a lot to say so it's seriously amazing
I've only recently started reading his "serious" theory books (he has many short books that fall in the pop philosophy category, kinda like Chul Han), and man I can see why he's well respected. It's funny that he's "famous", but he brings brilliant points and makes great analysis
This is the lefty in me, but he's much more likable than Peterson. Peterson has the voice and personality of a Scottish serial killer. Zizek's personality shines through in both serious and funny videos. I've never read either of their books, but Zizek comes off as open to more ideas than Peterson.
Movie List: Ernst Lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise Peter Weir - Picnic at Hanging Rock Louis Malle - Murmur of the Heart Jaromil Jireš - The Joke Ang Lee - The Ice Storm David Lean - Great Expectations Roberto Rossellini - The Age of the Medici Roberto Rossellini - Cartesius Roberto Rossellini - Blaise Pascal Charles Chaplin - City Lights Lars Von Trier - Box Alfonso Cuáron - Y tu mama Tambien Lars Von Trier - Antichrist
Ernesto Sanchez You get used to it. I'm glad you don't have anything too negative to say, though - all too often I read comments about how he's crazy or how people "can't focus on what he's saying because of his style," etc., simply because of his lisp, pauses and gesticulations. It's really frustrating how people can be such dullards that they can't take intelligent people seriously, making fun of them or not listening because of ostensible distractions. Anyway, I hope that he becomes easier for you to understand in time!
Complete list: 00:01 Ernst Lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise 00:28 Alexander Mackendrick - Sweet Smell of Success 00:33 Peter Weir - Picnic at Hanging Rock 00:52 Louis Malle - Murmur of the Heart 01:04 Jaromil Jireš - The Joke 01:15 Ang Lee - The Ice Storm 01:33 David Lean - Great Expectations 01:44 Roberto Rossellini - The Age of the Medici Roberto Rossellini - Cartesius Roberto Rossellini - Blaise Pascal 02:05 Charles Chaplin - City Lights 02:18 Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath; Carl Theodor Dreyer - Ordet Carl Theodor Dreyer - Gertrud 02:35 Alfonso Cuáron - Children of Men 02:47 Lars Von Trier - Antichrist Mentioned movies: Werner Herzog - Fitzcarraldo (commenting negatively, but approving the edition of Criterion) Werner Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God Les Blank - Burden of Dreams (he prefers this documentary to the film Fitzcarraldo) If he had to choose the best Criterion box, he would say: 04:04 Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Alexander Nevsky; Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and Part 2) 04:25 Eisenstein - Bezhin lug (comes in the Alexander Nevsky disc) 04:40 Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons
the first half of antichrist is great, the second half is far too much like standard schlocky horror to be taken seriously. john waters said something along the lines of "If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, [Antichrist] is the movie he would have made." Which is precisely correct.
I think he wrote that film after a messy divorce. It was in some part excellent but really I didn't need to see that genital mutilation stuff, although it's probably a pretty good visual representation of being intimately involved with that grotty little troll.
stop speculating, none of you sound smart. and the fact he never saw but still talks about it proves he only likes the title. because he is a satanist. literally the only reason he is talking in public.
Oh no he didn't!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I have to go through the comments first to find the list because his accent is quite heavy. If he says that I'm going to love him🤣🤣🤣🤣
Word on the street is that this is gonna be one of the punishments in hell once Nightingale* stops singing. *"Slavoj" means "nightingale" in Slovenian.
This is one of the only YT videos I rewatch again and again. I've seen it at least a dozen times. It is a bizarre combination of hilarious and insightful. My favorite video of Zizek.
Zizek I the only person to do the criterion closet right. Just taking everything he can including if you look two copies of Y tu Mama Tambien after saying that it wasn't even his favorite
He's hilarious and critical. Love what he said about Kundera, though I never read the book of his he referred to. Couldn't get through "The Unbearable Lightness of Being. " Bringing Beethoven in so people will say it's deep. Puleeze. I didn't think much of "Picnic at Hanging Rock " though the outback was nice. Saw parts of "The Ice Storm " on TV. Wonderfully creepy. "Great Expectations" yes, so lived in, perfect early David Lean. Cuaron's "Roma" was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Everything's italicized. Mexico City's a lot more fun.
Yes, thank you. And Chomsky can't stand Zizek Should tell you something. I like the Czechs but not Kundera. Just because you've lived through hell doesn't mean you can write like an angel. Or carte blanche.
***** I'd agree with you but I came across the second movie first and loved that so much, I was so excited to watch the first documentary. So it was a great shame then to find out that the second one is where his ideas really bloom into massive things I had to spend ages reading around just to really understand them. The first film is much more of a dry mechanical examination of cinema and some specific films that reveal this and that. It's good stuff if you're fascinated by film itself. Really I should have caught this one first and I'd of loved it, I'm sure.
the fact that he picked out more movies than anyone else and often took 2 copies indicates that slavoj saw a room where criterion were going to give him free shit and took full advantage. i'm crying laughing. he picks up the antichrist and hasn't even seen it.
It pisses me off how there are so many cuts in these videos. I can also sound really deep and contemplative if I have a minute to think up every sentence. It's so much better to do it in a single take and get this utter insanity.
anlamayanlar için önerdiği filmleri mubiden kopyaladım: Trouble in Paradise (1932) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - dir. Alexander Mackendrick Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - dir. Peter Weir Murmur of the Heart (1971)- dir. Louis Malle The Joke (1969) - dir. Jaromil Jireš The Ice Storm (1997) - dir. Ang Lee Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean Rossellini’s History Films (Box Set) ) City Lights (1931) - dir. Charlie Chaplin Y Tu Mamá También (2002) - dir. Alfonso Cuáron
there was a boy at my school who did this compulsive t shirt pulling. He was considered a bit of a weirdo at the time, but obviously now I know he was just a Zizek fan. Respect dude.
Brilliant - my vote for best dvd picks ever! Clearly Slavoj had a chance to make his selections prior to filming this - which provided an opportunity for a much more detailed breakdown of why he liked the films. Do it for all!
@El Fenomeno Spike Lee is not a racist. Also, I was saying an assumption not an accusation. Get that right. That person thinks Zizek is a racist because Zizek identifies as a Hegelian when Hegel's works are considered racist. Not saying Zizek is racist. Just answering why that guy said that Zizek might be racist.
Trouble in Paradise (1932) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch “It’s the best critique of Capitalism.” Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - dir. Alexander Mackendrick “It’s a nice depiction of the corruption of the American press.” Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - dir. Peter Weir “I simply like early Peter Weir movies. … It’s like his version of Stalker.” Murmur of the Heart (1971)- dir. Louis Malle “It’s one of those nice gentle French movies where you have incest. Portrayed as a nice secret between mother and son. I like this.” The Joke (1969) - dir. Jaromil Jireš “The Joke is the first novel by Milan Kundera and I think it’s his only good novel. After that it all goes down.” The Ice Storm (1997) - dir. Ang Lee “I have a personal attachment to this film. When James Schamus was writing the scenario, he told me he was reading a book of mine and that my theoretical book was inspiration [sic]. So it’s personal reason but I also loved the movie.” Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean “I am simply a great fan of Dickens.” Rossellini’s History Films (Box Set) - The Age of the Medici (1973), Cartesius (1974), Blaise Pascal (1972) “Rossellini’s history films, I prefer them. These late, long boring TV movies. I think that the so-called great Rossellinis, for example German Year Zero and so on, they no longer really work. I think this is the Rossellini to be rehabilitated.” City Lights (1931) - dir. Charlie Chaplin “What is there to say? This is one of the greatest movies of all times.” Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set - Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), Gertrud (1964) “It’s more out of my love for Denmark. It’s nice to know already in the ‘20s and ‘30s, Denmark was already a cinematic superpower. Y Tu Mamá También (2002) - dir. Alfonso Cuáron “This is for obvious personal reason. I do the comment. [He did the DVD Commentary for the movie] Although, I must say that my favorite Cuáron is Children of Men.” Antichrist (2009) - dir. Lars Von Trier “I will probably not like it, but I like Von Trier. It is simply a part of a duty.”
More from Zizek PLEASE!! His thoughts on film are thought provoking and funny! When he talks about politics, I'm out of my depth...but I can follow his film analysis.
Very nice, Zizek really loves cinema, his passion is visible. But why the Criterion folks don't hand him the blu-rays? The poor Zizek got a lot of films on dvd that were released in much higher quality, he deserves the best!
my friend who just turned blue, enjoyed the coke with him at nyu. oh, i wonder how judy would feel or if shed care since he annoyed her so in fullerton.
This is great. Transgression put into different perspectives, I imagine. I have a weak spot for the things he touches upon. I think I will start with the first one, always good to shake up the evaluation of values! Go Zizek!
It's very liberating to know that Zizek uses fast forward. I've often thought that he just devotes 9 hours a day to watching movies to dedicate another 8 or whatever to reading and writing. Not that this makes he any less of a Superman; rather I see something like the, "Camera Lucida" which was used by Renaissance painters to help visualize perspective in their paintings. We will use technology and we will use discipline and we will be unafraid of apparently unproductive activity as our great friend and teacher Zizek demonstrates the way especially in his demonstration of honoring his great teacher Jacques Lacan.
Easily the best DVD picks you've done Criterion. He makes the rest of your invites sound insanely dull. You should just hire Zizek to watch all your releases and then have him do a review show in your cupboard every week.
Totally agree with Zizek on Magnificent Ambersons. The producers cut out nearly 40 minutes of film and according to Welles it was the most significant and important episodes. A true tragedy of cinema history.
alexander kopaneff They completely removed and reshot the ending, which was the whole point of the story and what everything was building up to, while Welles was off shooting a bogus propaganda flick in Brazil for the US government. Then when he got back, they locked him out of the editing room! Welles said that it would have been his greatest film of all time.
nice to see an intelligent man whos not afraid of expressing his opinions in an assertive way, anglosaxons critics and filmmakers are much more bland and boring in their comments
popc52 ebert and kermode are such bland characters, compare them to the kind of criticism that cahiers du cinema used to make in the 60s, or really with latinamerican, italian, franch critics and the difference is abysmal
For the ones that also like me had a hard time to understand the movie titles: Trouble in paradise (1932) Picnic at hanging rock (1975) Murmur of the heart (1971) The ice storm (1997) Great expectations (1998) Where is freedom (1954) City lights (1931) Children of men (2006)
Hamlet's original monologue: "To be or not to be, and so on, and so on."
@@johnibaka3941 He's just a Marxist, that's why.
@@tichbyte9352 Means he is smarter than right-wing trash, so they have to say things like he's "hard to understand' or likes "weirdo stuff" (even though these are some of the most univerally lauded filmmakers of all time to anyone with an interest in true cinema.)
@@konstantinov You make excellent Zek. You extra ration three pieces bread. Pozdravleniya!
“...ant sscho ahn ant sscho forsch...”
he wasn't even referring to the monologue though
"It's one of those nice, gently French movies where you have incest which is portrayed as a nice secret between mother and son. I like this." Amazing sentence.
i literally looked through the comments to see if anyone else noticed that
Quite the statement.
thanks i hate it
Seth Organ Bitch wtf
@Great Destroyer you sound like a virgin or an incel
Props to Criterion for giving the janitor some speaking time.
+aabove haha good one
*dead*
lol that was funny
Can't stop laughing at this. I must say, "damn good stuff, sir!"
This is the funniest comment I've ever seen on CZcams. Can't stop laughing.
"Forget the movie" - Zizek on movies.
LOL!
Nutshell
"I'm totally theoretically corrupted" Zizek on Zizek on movies haha
Funniest comment on CZcams.
Exactly like he shouldnt even be on this shit. It's just proof Criterion and this dude are just tools. He sold out so he gets his 15minutes. Doesn't matter he speaks total bullshit drivel and is actually an idiot. Most people are stupider so it comes off okay.
*"if the movie drags on, I do a little bit of fast forward, or whatever, and so on"*
Rayhunter 😂😂
"Children of Men is my favourite Cuarón, which is otherwise a failure".
nowhereman What does he mean by that? Children of men is otherwise a failure or Cuaron is?
@@petewenzel2725 I think he meant to say "who" instead of "which", but I kind of hope that he instead meant that the movie is a failure in every other sense apart from being his favorite, because that's insane. Either way, it's hilarious.
I press the "and so on" button and so on.
It's amazing how without any prompting whatsoever, Zizek is able to just conduct an intensive discussion with himself for five minutes without even breaking a sweat.
honestly it seems like he’s sweating quite a bit
But with a lot of spit :P
Without prompting? He's being interviewed about his favorite movies. Ironically the video even begins with a literal prompt from the cameraman.
@@vaahtobileet I think the point is that once asked a question he goes on for 5 minutes essentially having a conversation with his own internal monologue making himself seem a bit mad. its like if somone asked you if you liked strawberries while you stand there silently and 5 minutes later the other person is talking about a documentary about the hardships of mexican fruitpickers in Ontario and why mexicans pick fruit so much.
@@krel3358 He was asked about his favorite films because it's well-known that he's able to talk at length about the subject (he's made at least two documentaries about movies?) They didn't arbitrarily ask him about a random subject.
Zizek should host his own game show, but one in which he is the only contestant.
Nathaniel Ziering imagining him running from booth to booth
This is precisely already capitalism, I claim
he is the host and the contestant? Your joke sucks.
@@twsartadventures3660 I like your website Tim!
And yet somehow, he would still find a way to lose.
Less than 15 seconds of video and he's already talking about capitalism.
Isn't capitalism the only thing we ever talk about?
@@RevolutionaryLoser yeah because it sucks balls for the 99%
@@noahwatson4310 compared to the top1 no, compared to the bottom 98 probably yes.
It’s so weird: the world’s most famous anti-capitalist writer, who has made two movies and written hundreds of pages about movies and capitalism, is talking about capitalism in an interview about movies
@Thomas Farrell That is such an overgeneralizing and dumb statement.
"So that's why I like Criterion--because I'm totally, theoretically corrupted." Best endorsement ever!
"It's simply one of the absolute movies" this man memes so hard he brought one back from the future
lmfaoooooo. this is one of the reviews ever made
What time stamp 😂😂😂😂
@@yobiusthetercioculus8747 2:16
And they say the left can't meme
One of the greatest advantages of Zizec being a figure that appears often on the net is that we can find him talking about Hegel for 9 hours, debating Jordan Peterson, devouring two hotdogs one on each hand, and talking about his favorite movies. Best of all, he's one hell of a character with a lot to say so it's seriously amazing
I've only recently started reading his "serious" theory books (he has many short books that fall in the pop philosophy category, kinda like Chul Han), and man I can see why he's well respected. It's funny that he's "famous", but he brings brilliant points and makes great analysis
This is the lefty in me, but he's much more likable than Peterson. Peterson has the voice and personality of a Scottish serial killer. Zizek's personality shines through in both serious and funny videos. I've never read either of their books, but Zizek comes off as open to more ideas than Peterson.
Zizek is fun
Joseph Medina Peterson is a pseudo-intellectual while Zizek is not. That's the difference.
I also recommend a video of him signing a coke bottle, highly amused
Movie List:
Ernst Lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise
Peter Weir - Picnic at Hanging Rock
Louis Malle - Murmur of the Heart
Jaromil Jireš - The Joke
Ang Lee - The Ice Storm
David Lean - Great Expectations
Roberto Rossellini - The Age of the Medici
Roberto Rossellini - Cartesius
Roberto Rossellini - Blaise Pascal
Charles Chaplin - City Lights
Lars Von Trier - Box
Alfonso Cuáron - Y tu mama Tambien
Lars Von Trier - Antichrist
not Lars von Trier box, Carl Th. Dreyer box.
thanks a lot Man. that is really useful.
Thanks Mate. He is an awfully nice chap but it is difficult to understand him. His accent and lack of enunciation is challenging to say the least!
Ernesto Sanchez You get used to it. I'm glad you don't have anything too negative to say, though - all too often I read comments about how he's crazy or how people "can't focus on what he's saying because of his style," etc., simply because of his lisp, pauses and gesticulations. It's really frustrating how people can be such dullards that they can't take intelligent people seriously, making fun of them or not listening because of ostensible distractions. Anyway, I hope that he becomes easier for you to understand in time!
Thanks, im not gettin any word.
Complete list:
00:01 Ernst Lubitsch - Trouble in Paradise
00:28 Alexander Mackendrick - Sweet Smell of Success
00:33 Peter Weir - Picnic at Hanging Rock
00:52 Louis Malle - Murmur of the Heart
01:04 Jaromil Jireš - The Joke
01:15 Ang Lee - The Ice Storm
01:33 David Lean - Great Expectations
01:44 Roberto Rossellini - The Age of the Medici
Roberto Rossellini - Cartesius
Roberto Rossellini - Blaise Pascal
02:05 Charles Chaplin - City Lights
02:18 Carl Theodor Dreyer - Day of Wrath;
Carl Theodor Dreyer - Ordet
Carl Theodor Dreyer - Gertrud
02:35 Alfonso Cuáron - Children of Men
02:47 Lars Von Trier - Antichrist
Mentioned movies:
Werner Herzog - Fitzcarraldo (commenting negatively, but approving the edition of Criterion)
Werner Herzog - Aguirre, The Wrath of God
Les Blank - Burden of Dreams (he prefers this documentary to the film Fitzcarraldo)
If he had to choose the best Criterion box, he would say:
04:04 Eisenstein - The Sound Years (Alexander Nevsky; Ivan The Terrible Part 1 and Part 2)
04:25 Eisenstein - Bezhin lug (comes in the Alexander Nevsky disc)
04:40 Orson Welles - The Magnificent Ambersons
Great Expectations is Lean. I don't believe Cuaron's is on Criterion and SZ refers to "all the great classical Dickens movies."
Thank you so much
@@timdrhookmccracken You are right! Thank you. Edited my comment
you are an angel among men
Thank you
Did he just take 2 copies of Y Tu Mama Tabien
this guy is intense
Camping is "intense" as well hur de hur
+po1s0ned You can't have a threesome without a third.
Have always hated that film.
Carlos Hernandez why?
@@adamortega1 the only good thing about was the way it ended. Too bad the rest could not have been as good.
"And Antichrist. I will probably not like it, but I like Von Trier."
Sums up my experience with the movie.
scumoftheEarth lol that film sucks but I do enjoy some of his other works
the first half of antichrist is great, the second half is far too much like standard schlocky horror to be taken seriously. john waters said something along the lines of "If Ingmar Bergman had committed suicide, gone to hell, and come back to earth to direct an exploitation/art film for drive-ins, [Antichrist] is the movie he would have made." Which is precisely correct.
@@9000ck Which sounds and is great, to be honest...
I think he wrote that film after a messy divorce. It was in some part excellent but really I didn't need to see that genital mutilation stuff, although it's probably a pretty good visual representation of being intimately involved with that grotty little troll.
stop speculating, none of you sound smart. and the fact he never saw but still talks about it proves he only likes the title. because he is a satanist. literally the only reason he is talking in public.
i lost it once he said he fast forwards through the movies lol
George Papageorgiou this is how geniuses watch movies I guess lol
Oh no he didn't!? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I have to go through the comments first to find the list because his accent is quite heavy. If he says that I'm going to love him🤣🤣🤣🤣
If you watch at 1.5x or 2x speed, you can potentially watch twice as many movies. Hopefully you have good speed watching technique. 👌
@Old man that's not true. It depends on the movie, on the scene. Sometimes you shouldn't fasten the pace, but in many cases it helps and makes sense.
@@user-bj2lu9qt3o Very rarely.
"Screw the movie". I love you Zazek for saying that inside a closet full of movies
Imagine having Slavoj Zizek as one of your college professors
trying to take notes would be an absolute nightmare
thank god they now record lectures - I'd need the pause button every few moments
@@agenttheater5 not at my university AHAHAHAHXD (it hurts)
Word on the street is that this is gonna be one of the punishments in hell once Nightingale* stops singing.
*"Slavoj" means "nightingale" in Slovenian.
on the on khand i like ith
but on the other khand he is hard to follow and so and so on...
This is one of the only YT videos I rewatch again and again. I've seen it at least a dozen times. It is a bizarre combination of hilarious and insightful. My favorite video of Zizek.
on Children of Men: czcams.com/video/pbgrwNP_gYE/video.html
Zizek I the only person to do the criterion closet right. Just taking everything he can including if you look two copies of Y tu Mama Tambien after saying that it wasn't even his favorite
I mean, I watch a lot off Almodóvar, even though I don't think he's amazing 😃
@@TigerPrawn_ it's Cuaron
its because he's featured on the additional commentary included on the movie
Some people, you just can't imagine them calmly watching a film.
A philospher that is also a cinephile and gets invited to the Criterion Closet... you can’t get cooler than that
*"A NICE SECRET BETWEEN MOTHER AND SON"*
"I like this"
Do you like it?
As soon as I saw the time stamp, I knew "Good God no, five minutes will not be enough".
Zizek intensifies
As if he does anything else
more interesting than 95 percent of the directors they've had in.
He's hilarious and critical. Love what he said about Kundera, though I never read the book of his he referred to. Couldn't get through "The Unbearable Lightness of Being. " Bringing Beethoven in so people will say it's deep. Puleeze. I didn't think much of "Picnic at Hanging Rock " though the outback was nice. Saw parts of "The Ice Storm " on TV. Wonderfully creepy. "Great Expectations" yes, so lived in, perfect early David Lean. Cuaron's "Roma" was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. Everything's italicized. Mexico City's a lot more fun.
Yes, thank you. And Chomsky can't stand Zizek Should tell you something. I like the Czechs but not Kundera. Just because you've lived through hell doesn't mean you can write like an angel. Or carte blanche.
And so on.
Props to the camerman for panning up so we can see what he's doing with his right hand.
He should do a commentary on a Criterion movie....ANY Criterion movie.
Yeah, on a non-English language film. That'd be some interesting subtitles.
yesh, yesh he should
The Game
You should check out his documentary "A Perverts Guide to cinema". Fascinating insights on many classic films.
***** I'd agree with you but I came across the second movie first and loved that so much, I was so excited to watch the first documentary. So it was a great shame then to find out that the second one is where his ideas really bloom into massive things I had to spend ages reading around just to really understand them. The first film is much more of a dry mechanical examination of cinema and some specific films that reveal this and that. It's good stuff if you're fascinated by film itself. Really I should have caught this one first and I'd of loved it, I'm sure.
This video is Peak Zizek. 13 seconds in and he's already swinging on capitalism. Never change Zizek!
the fact that he picked out more movies than anyone else and often took 2 copies indicates that slavoj saw a room where criterion were going to give him free shit and took full advantage. i'm crying laughing. he picks up the antichrist and hasn't even seen it.
I can't believe Slavoj said Fast and Furious: Hobbs and Shaw is his favourite movie of all time because of the incest. Truly an inspiration.
“I usually do some fast-forward, or whatever, and so on.”
One of the best criterion closet pick ups so far! lengthy, and informative. Love it!
This is one of the rare Criterion closet videos that's in one uninterrupted take
It pisses me off how there are so many cuts in these videos. I can also sound really deep and contemplative if I have a minute to think up every sentence. It's so much better to do it in a single take and get this utter insanity.
@@RevolutionaryLoser I disagree; not everyone can be rapidfire like Žižek
His description of Murmur of the Heart cracks me up.
"I'm theoretically corrupted… I'm theoretically corrupted"
He's courrupted in the sense of being "theoretically" corrupted.
@Çağdaş Müldür in theory
Zizek is, theoretically, corrupted, because he is "theoretically corrupted".
@@spinoz2319 totally
That explains why he loves communism 🤣
anlamayanlar için önerdiği filmleri mubiden kopyaladım:
Trouble in Paradise (1932) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - dir. Alexander Mackendrick
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - dir. Peter Weir
Murmur of the Heart (1971)- dir. Louis Malle
The Joke (1969) - dir. Jaromil Jireš
The Ice Storm (1997) - dir. Ang Lee
Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
Rossellini’s History Films (Box Set) )
City Lights (1931) - dir. Charlie Chaplin
Y Tu Mamá También (2002) - dir. Alfonso Cuáron
Buğra Akbay And a Dreyer box set, 2:19.
Buğra Akbay Plus he mentiones the Eisenstein: The Sound Years collection.
thanks WheresPoochie
+Buğra Akbay He also took Murmur of the heart and Antichrist
+Buğra Akbay 2:46 Alfonso Cuáron dan "Children of a man" diyor
"Filum about inchezsht"
hahahah thank you
Inczizek.
👌😄
@@smotnick 😂😂😂😂
Nietzsche
I could listen to Slavoj talk for an hour. His accent is so thick and he explains and philosophizes things so absurdly.
there was a boy at my school who did this compulsive t shirt pulling. He was considered a bit of a weirdo at the time, but obviously now I know he was just a Zizek fan. Respect dude.
he might need a shirt from TC Tuggers
Zizek is one of the most hilarious and insightful people that has ever existed, I absolutely love him.
"To be or not to be and so on and so on"
I like how he says "Fitzcarraldo".
It is the only way to say it.
Zizek confessing to fast forwarding movies is appropriate considering he always looks and sounds as though he is on fast forward
He was sad they didn’t have Kung fu panda
Brilliant - my vote for best dvd picks ever! Clearly Slavoj had a chance to make his selections prior to filming this - which provided an opportunity for a much more detailed breakdown of why he liked the films. Do it for all!
'I shimply liike early Peeter Weeir moovies'....my 2nd favourite human, behind Grandma
I have been watching so much Slavoj videos lately that my vocabulary has expanded a lot and so on and so on
This is one of my favourite videos on CZcams.
Slavoj is several humans living in one body
That should be titled "Sylvester the cat DVD picks"
You're an ignorant asshole.
Mars Bolt I thought it was funny
I forgot he did a Criterion closet, and this only made me fall in love with him even more
Get spike lee in here, he'll ask for 50 copies of oldboy
walter white I kinda wished 2003s Oldboy was in Criterion.
@OppaiMausPad and why is that??? Please tell us.
Adenoid Hynkel He is racist
@El Fenomeno He identifies as a Hegelian and Hegel was known to be a racist. IDK whether Zizek is racist.
@El Fenomeno Spike Lee is not a racist. Also, I was saying an assumption not an accusation. Get that right. That person thinks Zizek is a racist because Zizek identifies as a Hegelian when Hegel's works are considered racist. Not saying Zizek is racist. Just answering why that guy said that Zizek might be racist.
The inevitability of his selections: I laughed so hard all through this.
This man is a character straight out of Infinite Jest.
Trouble in Paradise (1932) - dir. Ernst Lubitsch
“It’s the best critique of Capitalism.”
Sweet Smell of Success (1957) - dir. Alexander Mackendrick
“It’s a nice depiction of the corruption of the American press.”
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - dir. Peter Weir
“I simply like early Peter Weir movies. … It’s like his version of Stalker.”
Murmur of the Heart (1971)- dir. Louis Malle
“It’s one of those nice gentle French movies where you have incest. Portrayed as a nice secret between mother and son. I like this.”
The Joke (1969) - dir. Jaromil Jireš
“The Joke is the first novel by Milan Kundera and I think it’s his only good novel. After that it all goes down.”
The Ice Storm (1997) - dir. Ang Lee
“I have a personal attachment to this film. When James Schamus was writing the scenario, he told me he was reading a book of mine and that my theoretical book was inspiration [sic]. So it’s personal reason but I also loved the movie.”
Great Expectations (1946) dir. David Lean
“I am simply a great fan of Dickens.”
Rossellini’s History Films (Box Set) - The Age of the Medici (1973), Cartesius (1974), Blaise Pascal (1972)
“Rossellini’s history films, I prefer them. These late, long boring TV movies. I think that the so-called great Rossellinis, for example German Year Zero and so on, they no longer really work. I think this is the Rossellini to be rehabilitated.”
City Lights (1931) - dir. Charlie Chaplin
“What is there to say? This is one of the greatest movies of all times.”
Carl Theodor Dreyer Box Set - Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (1955), Gertrud (1964)
“It’s more out of my love for Denmark. It’s nice to know already in the ‘20s and ‘30s, Denmark was already a cinematic superpower.
Y Tu Mamá También (2002) - dir. Alfonso Cuáron
“This is for obvious personal reason. I do the comment. [He did the DVD Commentary for the movie] Although, I must say that my favorite Cuáron is Children of Men.”
Antichrist (2009) - dir. Lars Von Trier
“I will probably not like it, but I like Von Trier. It is simply a part of a duty.”
0:58 i literally fell out of my chair
This is becoming one of my favourite videos on YT and so on and so forth.
Love the passion, especially for City Lights.
this is the most iconic criterion video ever
More from Zizek PLEASE!! His thoughts on film are thought provoking and funny! When he talks about politics, I'm out of my depth...but I can follow his film analysis.
Very nice, Zizek really loves cinema, his passion is visible. But why the Criterion folks don't hand him the blu-rays? The poor Zizek got a lot of films on dvd that were released in much higher quality, he deserves the best!
Zizek has the money for them, don't you worry
Yeah, he deserves the best blurays, so he can fast forward through them at amazing quality.
my friend who just turned blue, enjoyed the coke with him at nyu. oh, i wonder how judy would feel or if shed care since he annoyed her so in fullerton.
A good chunk of those films he has aren't available on blu-ray :/
That slob is a capitalist dressed as a commie, don't be fooled by his fat ass.
I love this guy.
God I love this man
i am afraid of Slavoj...that's why I like him.
Doesn't like Fitzcarraldo but loves Burden of Dreams? Ever the post-structuralist Slavoj
"I think the supplementary material is better than the thing itself" is the most Zizekian conclusion imaginable.
"it is one of those gentle french movies where they have incest"
"Forget the move!" -- Zizek in the Criterion Closet
“Sometimes I fast-forward” cracked me up.
This is great. Transgression put into different perspectives, I imagine. I have a weak spot for the things he touches upon. I think I will start with the first one, always good to shake up the evaluation of values! Go Zizek!
This might be one of the most funny comment sections I’ve read 😂
2:10 that shake gave me an heart attack 😂
It's very liberating to know that Zizek uses fast forward. I've often thought that he just devotes 9 hours a day to watching movies to dedicate another 8 or whatever to reading and writing. Not that this makes he any less of a Superman; rather I see something like the, "Camera Lucida" which was used by Renaissance painters to help visualize perspective in their paintings.
We will use technology and we will use discipline and we will be unafraid of apparently unproductive activity as our great friend and teacher Zizek demonstrates the way especially in his demonstration of honoring his great teacher Jacques Lacan.
You had me at Picnic at Hanging Rock. I love all of Peter Weir’s films.
I thought this video was fantashtic
me too. its my favourite video on youtube, even though its otherwise a failure
Easily the best DVD picks you've done Criterion. He makes the rest of your invites sound insanely dull.
You should just hire Zizek to watch all your releases and then have him do a review show in your cupboard every week.
Totally agree with Zizek on Magnificent Ambersons. The producers cut out nearly 40 minutes of film and according to Welles it was the most significant and important episodes. A true tragedy of cinema history.
alexander kopaneff They completely removed and reshot the ending, which was the whole point of the story and what everything was building up to, while Welles was off shooting a bogus propaganda flick in Brazil for the US government. Then when he got back, they locked him out of the editing room! Welles said that it would have been his greatest film of all time.
@@dildonius Yeah, and that has pissed me off, since I first learned about it, years ago. Bastards!
"burden dreams is better than film itself" . thank you!
My favorite Criterion package: Louise Brooks in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box." The film is great, and the accompanying documentaries are fantastic.
Absolutely agree. I also like Brooks and Pabst's other collaboration, "Diary of a Lost Girl."
nice to see an intelligent man whos not afraid of expressing his opinions in an assertive way, anglosaxons critics and filmmakers are much more bland and boring in their comments
I don't see a difference really, care to point out one?
popc52 ebert and kermode are such bland characters, compare them to the kind of criticism that cahiers du cinema used to make in the 60s, or really with latinamerican, italian, franch critics and the difference is abysmal
do you speak spanish?
popc52 si
Entonces mejor hablemos en español
Spot on about extra features being sometimes better than the feature! Thanks.
Stroszek is a good movie but with the commentary it becomes pure gold.
Best DVD picks!
...and so on and so on...
Picks dvds instead of nose.
this is my comfort video
He enlightened us while he grabbed. That's the way to do it. He worked for it.
WTF is the impediment from putting the titles in text on the screen?!?!?!?
push cc
@@frankjamesbonarrigo7162 I doubt that would help decipher Slavoj
they couldn't understand him
Despite being his favourite Cuarón film, Children of Men is "otherwise a failure" apparently! Okay!
SchizoidMan5 ay is your pfp This Will Destroy You?
@@iftachsolomon sure is! Young Mountain for life!
pretty brazen statement there mr. zizek, some elaboration may be required!
I think it’s because CoM bombed at the box office when it was first released.
@@AgentMTW exactly and it also recieved no nominations at the oscars. Still it's an absolute masterpiece.
love that he mentioned Picnic at Hanging Rock, one of the great Australian classics
Who needs movies....as he fills his bag with dvd's
LOL you gotta love how he just casually mentions incest - moving on...
Sometimes I like to hear Zizek just to have some fun and a hilarious laugh.
I can't agree with everything but a man that values the bonus features of a DVD is very rare nowadays
Children of Men was the first time I discovered my obsession with director commentaries!
I'd recognize this voice anywhere!
The fuckin subtitles to this is hilarious.
For the ones that also like me had a hard time to understand the movie titles: Trouble in paradise (1932)
Picnic at hanging rock (1975)
Murmur of the heart (1971)
The ice storm (1997)
Great expectations (1998)
Where is freedom (1954)
City lights (1931)
Children of men (2006)
You missed a lot
Good to hear his opinion on these fillums.
Holy moly he just wont stop!