Some male friends and I were talking about their favorite romantic comedies (Notting Hill, Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken) the other night, when someone brought up the Bechdel Test for Women In Movies.
The next time you watch a movie or a TV show, ask yourself the following questions:
- Are there at least two women in [...]
Category Archives: Film
The Bechdel Test
July 26, 2010 – 5:00 am
Žižek on What Philosophy Is.
May 19, 2009 – 1:14 pm
I love this quote by [Lacanian](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lacan) philosopher [Slavoj Žižek](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavoj_%C5%BDi%C5%BEek), taken from an interview between him and Astra Taylor during Taylor’s film, [*Žižek!*](http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=zizek):
What is philosophy? Philosophy is not what some people think. Some crazy exercise in absolute truth and then you can adopt this kind of skeptical attitude. Where some, the scientists, are dealing [...]
Examined Life and a New Muse
April 30, 2009 – 5:18 pm
Just saw [Astra Taylor's](http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/film.php?directoryname=examinedlife&mode=filmmaker) newest documentary [Examined Life](http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/examinedlife/), and man. Feeling the vindication. For going to grad school to study philosophy, and for liking to waste my free time thinking about ethics and art. Amazing film.
Taylor manages to humanize some of the most renowned philosophers of our day, by taking them out of [...]
