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Film
Wittgenstein

When

Friday May 23, 2008 (8:30pm)

Where
Miami Beach Cinematheque (512 EspaƱola Way, 305.673.4567)
Price
$10
Details
http://mbcinema.tix.com/Event.asp?Event=138454
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The last film Derek Jarman made before he went blind is a beautiful homage to Ludwig Wittgenstein. The great 20th-century philosopher was a family friend of Mahler and Brahms, a schoolmate of Hitler's, and a student of (and successor to) Bertrand Russell. Despite all that, Jarman's artsy film finds Wittgenstein spending his downtime watching Westerns, reading crime fiction, and working over philosophical theories with a wee green Martian.

John Hood