It's an ambitious but unerringly trite attempt to mirror Fyodor Dostoevski's desperate efforts to write " The Gambler " on deadline with the wagering and romantic fervor described in the novel.
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"Sony and Apple appear to be saying, ` Buy this word processor _ you'll write a novel and be Dostoevski .'Film professionals know that shooting and editing takes talent and time.
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Ellin identifies not only with Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, and Arthur Conan Doyle but also with Fyodor Dostoevski and William Faulkner, who also dealt with the theme of crime and punishment ."
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Yul Brynner starred in the movie of Dostoevski's " The Brothers Karamazov " that Monroe yearned to be in; she wasn't, so Brynner didn't get to take any pictures of her.
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But in the corridors at publisher Addison-Wesley, Abu-Jamal is a promising author, perhaps a budding Dostoevski or an American Solzhenitsyn, whose written insights into life on death row are being aimed at best-seller lists.
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It's stodgy, artsy filmmaking from another era, over-reliant on " significant " slow-motion and dissolves that make cheap ironic contrasts between Dostoevski's grubby reality and the glamorized casinos of his mind.
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Shot on location in Budapest ( standing in for 19th century St . Petersburg ), it's a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Dostoevski's great novel that is also, not surprisingly, unable to capture the novel's richness.
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Shattuck is enlightening on the very different ways Dostoevski and Chekhov wrestled with the concept of evil, and persuasive when he argues that the movie " Pulp Fiction " is " complicit with the criminal violence it depicts ."
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Pierson will, however, need time to live down a Tikhvin Cemetery visit in which he strolled up to Dostoevski's grave, decorated with a bust of the great writer, and asked : " Who is this dude ?"
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Whipped : Neanderthal slobs all fall for the same babe ( Amanda Peet ), who whips them, whips them good . ( Destination )---Unscheduled Crime and Punishment in Suburbia : Dostoevski gets the teen treatment . ( United Artists)
