Dostoyevsky Reimagined: Blogs - Part 20

02 August

Shades of Blood or… the Special Vampires in Hollywood

Written by VM Productions

WHAT DO THESE TWO PICTURES HAVE IN COMMON? Picture 1 (above – left)– Official announcement of Shades of Day screening by the Consulate General of Sweden at St. Petersburg, Russia’s Festival of Festivals, June 2014. (Never-before-seen video interviews with...

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01 August

Dostoyevsky`s Books Made Me the Man I Am Today

Written by Josif Trajkoski

Every person that we have met has had some influence on us and changed us in some way, even if that change consists solely of the knowledge that we know that person. And every person that we haven’t met...

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31 July

7 Must-Read Russian Classics

Written by Lauren Saccone

Some films inspire you to pick up books. Great adaptations leave you inspired or curious about the source material. Notes From The New World, filmmaker Vitaly Sumin’s retelling of the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel, is an easy way to get drawn...

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30 July

A Documentary’s Human Heart of Darkness

Written by Dan Marcus

I’ve been pondering of late the planned feature-length documentary about the making of our film Notes from the New World, which was based, of course, on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s masterpiece, Notes from the Underground. The working title of the documentary...

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29 July

6 Classic Books To Add To Your Summer Reading List

Written by Lauren Saccone

I love reading lists. They help a reader organize their literary plans and map out a direction they want to pursue. Sometimes the lists have a theme: graphic novels, historical fiction, memoirs, narrative nonfiction, etc. But this summer, the...

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27 July

Henry Palmer and his “Dostoyevsky Reimagined” Vlogs

Written by Henry Palmer

Dostoyevsky Reimagined isn’t the first vlog I’ve experience with. I had one before which consisted of a new friend coming on each episode, rating the aesthetic of celebrities, engaging in random general chat… & there was rubbish CGI (Computer-generated...

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24 July

Why modern adaptions of classic literature should never be undervalued

Written by Catherine MidSommer

Not all teenagers enjoy having to read classic literature at school; I certainly didn’t like having to read Shakespeare’s plays at the age of fourteen. Though I loved Victorian literature, any texts predating the 1800’s seemed totally inaccessible and...

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23 July

To cease thinking, or to not?

Written by Henry Palmer

In the Russian classic, Notes from the Underground, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s ‘Underground Man’, the narrating protagonist, recalls a traumatic experience he’d endured involving a young woman called Liza. Underground Man talks of how, after failing to present himself as...

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18 July

Production Notes: Incentives, Updates, And The Missing Screenwriter

Written by Lauren Saccone

It’s been a busy week at VM Productions: we’ve been connecting with fans across social media platforms, hired some new people to the team, and dealt with some unusual situations (although at this point, unusual is quickly becoming the...

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17 July

From St.Petersburg, Russia to Los Angeles, California – via Paris, France

Written by Dan Marcus

Good morning, fellow readers. My blog this week will finally focus on the acclaimed film directed by Vitaly Sumin, Notes from the New World. This doesn’t mean it’s the last one I will write — actually the best is...

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