Vitaly Sumin Archive

09 May

Hollywood’s obsession with Hollywood: Top 5 Favorite Movies that take place in L.A

Written by Alexander Fah Sang

Hollywood has had an obsession with, well, Hollywood. While shooting in the Hollywood/L.A area is an obviously smart business move, you may run into problems where your movies may be seen as something by-Hollywood-for-Hollywood that celebrates the industry. (An...

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17 April

Dostoyevsky Inspired Films: Richard Ayoade’s The Double

Written by Felix Purat

“The door from the next room suddenly opened with a timid, quiet creak, as if thus announcing the entrance of a very insignificant person…” In 1846 a 25-year old Dostoyevsky published his second novel. Titled The Double, the novella...

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01 April

Interview with Vitaly Sumin – April, 2017

Written by Miroslava Panayotova

Why are you here, in LA? “The City of Angels,” also called “The Capital of World Entertainment,” boasts a unique concentration of technical facilities (studios, labs, equipment rental houses, etc.) and an enormous pool of talent and skilled technicians...

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02 March

The Missing Screenwriter: Server Error

Written by Ford Harris

Note to Our Readers: The following entry is a combination of two blogs that were lost during our website’s server crash. Luckily, I have managed to restore them. If you were fortunate enough to read The Missing Screenwriter: Anomalies and...

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BTS - Dostoyevsky Reimagined, Dark Onto Light, Making of Notes from the New World, Robert Hurley, The missing screenwriter, Vitaly Sumin Dostoyevsky Reimagined Leave a Comment

18 January

Natasha Blasick Leading Role On Festival Circuit With Award Winning Film “Notes From The New World”.

Written by VM Productions

Actress Natasha Blasick is being seen around the world in Notes From The New World as the film screens in festivals and wins awards. The movie had its North American premiere at the Crest Theater in Los Angeles, California...

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03 January

124 Films Adapted from Dostoyevsky Novels, And Where to Find Them

Written by Vanes Naldi

A Portrait of Dostoyevsky

We’ll admit it right off the bat: when we started collecting data for this humongous list of films adapted from Dostoyevsky novels, we never expected it to reach these numbers: we have found a whopping 124 films that were...

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22 December

Dostoyevsky and Women

Written by M.

Welcome again lovely readers, welcome back to the Dostoevsky-BTS blog! Have you ever wondered how Dostoyevsky felt about women? I admit that since the first time I read Dostoyevsky, which was Notes from Underground, I had the impression that...

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04 December

The Missing Screenwriter: A Certain Code

Written by Ford Harris

In the second half of my meeting with the informant, it was my turn to offer help. As you know, I agreed to look into the disappearance of the man’s wife in exchange for information on Dark Onto Light....

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17 November

The Missing Screenwriter: To the Breaking Point

Written by Ford Harris

Last week, with Vitaly Sumin’s help, I uncovered the missing pages from Hurley’s journal. They were locked up in a safety deposit box that was supposedly purchased by Hurley himself. It’s been over seven years since the screenwriter went...

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09 November

The Missing Screenwriter: Cloak-and-Dagger

Written by Ford Harris

Good news. Just last week, I received word that our missing screenwriter owns a safety deposit box at a bank in Culver City. Vitaly Sumin contacted me recently with some surprising information. He’s the only other person who is...

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