Martin Heidegger once said that a biography of Aristotle should be simple, saying “He was born. He thought. He died.” The rest, the German philosopher said, was merely anecdote. Jacques Derrida says ...

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.