Reviews: Films

V for Vendetta

Floris van den Berg watches The Open Society and its Enemies, the movie.
[Issue 71: January/February 2009]

Robots

Grant Bartley looks behind the images of the film Robots to find three perspectives on artistic greatness.
[Issue 69: September/October 2008]

The Counterfeiters

Thomas Wartenberg finds that extreme circumstances can bring out a person’s true moral character.
[Issue 68: July/August 2008]

Horton Hears A Who!

Todd Walters is delighted to announce that the roles of Socrates and Galileo will be played by Horton and the Mayor of Whoville respectively.
[Issue 67: May/June 2008]

Defining Violence

Terri Murray on Wim Wenders and panoptic power.
[Issue 66: March/April 2008]

The Departed

Eric Wills reveals how Nietzschean morality is displayed in Martin Scorsese’s Oscar-winning movie.
[Issue 65: January/February 2008]

Zizek!

Grant Bartley! investigates the film as a distillation of the man.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007]

Pi and the Movie Mind

A number of recent films deal with mathematics and mathematicians. Can we learn something from them or are they misleading? Peter Stone investigates.
[Issue 64: November/December 2007]

The Politics of Education

Judith Suissa considers the intersection of political philosophy and philosophy of education in Alan Bennett’s new film The History Boys.
[Issue 63: September/October 2007]

Just Ask The Dust

Existentialism goes to the movies. Nick DiChario finds that the novel fills spaces the film doesn’t even have.
[Issue 62: July/August 2007]

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