dostoyevsky Archive

Film is a fascinating medium. There’s nothing about it that doesn’t draw the eye and ignite the imagination. People adore every facet of movies and movie-making: from entertaining trivia to exhaustive details of how the film came to life....
     Russian classics tend to be steeped in Russian philosophy, thus revealing the mindsets of Russian culture at the time in the same way an English novel might reveal the social structures and customs of the time in...
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and cinema have a long and complicated history. There have been dozens of adaptations of his work over the years with filmmakers trying to capture the unique sensibility that makes the Russian author so compelling. His rich...
Film adaptations are a tricky thing: they can be complete disasters that shame the source material, or they can leave you thinking about the original content in a whole new way. This problem is compounded when filmmakers attempt modern...
Clicca qui per leggere questo blog in italiano   Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky lived in Russia in the 19th century. An era of diseases and conflicts where any form of art could represent an escape from reality and might change...
Click here to read this blog in English. Buongiorno fedeli lettori.  Ho avuto una settimana difficile perché non riuscivo proprio a trovare qualcosa d’interessante da scrivere.  Non volevo continuare a tormentarvi con gli stessi film e con le stesse...
Clicca qui per leggere questo blog in italiano   Good morning my fellow readers. I had a tough writing week; I just couldn’t find anything interesting to write. I didn’t want to keep hammer you with the same films...
When I signed on to do social media promotions for VM Productions documentary Dostoyevsky Reimagined: The Making of Notes from the New World (Dostoyevsky Reimainged – BTS) I thought it would be fun. I have friends who work in...