It’s a good thing I work alone in an airtight concrete room, because I literally, audibly yelped when this press release landed in my inbox. Slavoj Zizek––the superstar Lacanian theorist who Sophie Fiennes bluescreened into Psycho, who analyzed 9/11 through terms set by The Matrix, who is probably the only former Princeton professor to star in a documentary with an exclamation point in the title––will Guest Direct the 2008 Telluride Film Festival. Telluride’s Guest Directors are charged with putting together a sidebar of films, and introducing the screenings at the Labor Day weekend fest. In keeping with Telluride tradition, Zizek’s picks, like the rest of the line up, will be kept secret until the week of the fest, but if anybody want to start putting money down on what Zizek might program, I’m game.
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David Lynch’s LOST HIGHWAY is a lock.
300!
oh and PS- try reading his work without hearing his voice in your head. Almost impossible…
Out here in Los Angeles, the Aero theater is hosting a Wednesday night double-header of Southland Tales and Romance & Cigarettes (which made my best and worst of 2007 lists, but I’ll let you guess in which order). I’d love to get Zizek’s take on those two films.
i can’t wait. i hope we can get an incomprehensible interview with him.
I distinctly remember you going debruge for Rom&Cig. When can I see it on-line?
Wow! That’s pretty rad. I’m so there.
If only I could somehow teleport myself there….coz it sounds awesome.