To paraphrase Raymond Chandler, French philosopher Jacques Derrida is smart the way other people think they’re smart. And the great pleasure of “Derrida,” an absolutely first-rate documentary about ...

Common sense suggests that philosophy does not lend itself to cinematic spectacle, which may explain why few thinkers, dead or alive, have ever taken the leap to the silver screen -- until now.

Several thoughts have preoccupied me over the past months. They came to me, as if in a series of dreams, but in fact they were the residual content of YouTube videos I have been watching, for weeks, ...