Dostoyevsky Reimagined Archive

23 November

Film of the Month: Blow-Up: A Postmodern Film Noir

Written by Ava Lanto

This year at VM Productions we bid our final farewell to the wonderfully spooky Halloween season and celebrate “#Noirvember” (a celebration of Film Noir, throughout November) with Michelangelo Antonioni’s Blow Up (1966), a work that combines traditional Film noir...

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29 October

Double Dostoyevsky: Reimagining ‘Crime and Punishment’ into film with directors Vitaly Sumin and Andrew O’Keefe

Written by Arlene Selman

Two men; one from Melbourne, Australia and one originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. Melbourne and St. Petersburg have been “sister” cities since 1989. And the two men may be considered “brothers” in their individual re-imagining of Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Crime and Punishment’ into film. The...

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28 October

Mafia Films

Written by Christopher Lee

From the dawn of film to the present day, there is very little that has not been written about. Stories about cowboys, stories about aliens… Hell, stories about cowboys AND aliens; and, love it or leave it, there is...

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19 October

Production Notes: Disappearances, Dark Tidings, & Sinister Situations

Written by Lauren Saccone

It looks like I spoke too soon. My earlier optimism about the Robert Hurley investigation appears to have been sorely misplaced (or at least somewhat overstated). Just when I think we’ve found our footing, strange events once again rear...

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09 October

These Famous Movies Have Surprising Art-House Roots

Written by Nate Drescher

Film is a reflection of the society from which it is created, and while glitzy special-effects and blockbuster titles dominate the summer, the real creativity goes on at hundreds of independent art-house production studios around the world. These studios...

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30 September

Production Notes: Changing Seasons, Changing Moods, And What Comes Next

Written by Lauren Saccone

It’s fall in the Northern Hemisphere, and the changing season fits in well with the mood here at VM Productions. Change is the watchword right now — changing attitudes, changing seasons,and changing the way we’re moving forward. As we...

27 September

The Ultimate Cheat Sheet on Notes From The Underground

Written by Nate Drescher

We all know that Fyodor Dostoyevsky was one of the most influential writers of his time. His insights into the human soul, and his philosophical musings about life and the world still resonate strongly today. One of his more...

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17 September

5 Things You Didn’t Know About The Russian Mafia

Written by Nate Drescher

The Russian mafia has been around since the time of the Czars, but didn’t gain international infamy until after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991, when different mobs vied for control of Russia and brought their clashes...

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14 September

Production Notes: Vlogs, The Missing, And The Fear

Written by Lauren Saccone

I’m not sure at what point things stopped being strange and started being downright scary. For as long as I’ve worked at VM Productions, there’s been an air of mystery to the place — partly from the source material...

09 September

The three books that guided me through my youth

Written by Josif Trajkoski

First of all, I want to say that this article isn’t a review of these books, nor am I so arrogant to say that I’ve discovered their hidden meaning that no one else has seen before. I think that...

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