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Anna Karenina at the movies: wild inward romance (1997); or contemporary marital discontents (1985)

Sophie Marceau as Anna, typical odd angle, very close up shot (1997 written, directed, produced by Bernard Rose) Jacqueline Bisset as as a passive Anna submitting to Christopher Reeve as a conventional cad Vronsky (1985, script James Goldman, directed by Simon Langton) Friends and readers, I’ve been participating in another group read and discussion of … Continue reading “Anna Karenina at the movies: wild inward romance (1997); or contemporary marital discontents (1985)”

Anna Karenina at the movies, Garbo & Rathbone (1935) to Leigh & Richardson (1948); a Virginia Woolf column

Vivien Leigh as Anna Karenina (from the first half of 1948 film, at home — an unfamiliar shot) Gretta Garbo as Anna Karenina (reminiscing in front of Kitty, a fine moment from 1935 film) Friends and readers, Each time one watches a great movie, like each time one reads a great book, one learns more … Continue reading “Anna Karenina at the movies, Garbo & Rathbone (1935) to Leigh & Richardson (1948); a Virginia Woolf column”

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina

Nicola Paget as Anna Karenina in the snow when she is still falling in love with Vronsky (1977 BBC AK) Friends and readers, Two summers ago our Trollope and his Contemporaries listserv on Yahoo (Trollope19thCstudies@yahoogroups.com) began nearly 6 months r reading Tolstoy’s War and Peace together, and a few of us watched just some of … Continue reading “Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina”

Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as translated by Garnett & read by Davina Porter

Vivien Leigh as Anna (1948 film, scripted Jean Anouilh) Ralph Richardson’s Karenin, reasoning with Leigh as Anna Oblonsky to Levin: It’s Kitty I’m sorry for — not you! — Stoppard’s Anna Anna to Vronsky: I would never see my son again. The laws are made by husbands and fathers … Unhappiness? I’m like a starving … Continue reading “Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina as translated by Garnett & read by Davina Porter”

Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard’s Anna Karenina: a theatrical triumph

Stiva Oblonsky, Anna’s brother (Matthew MacFayden) and Kostya Levin, the 2nd major contrast to Anna (Domnhall Gleeson) Anna Karenina (Keira Knightley): a cut off promotional shot (not in film) of her in a long red robe, filmed from afar (as described); she’s fulfilled the promise of Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of Carribean (2003), The … Continue reading “Joe Wright and Tom Stoppard’s Anna Karenina: a theatrical triumph”

DC Spring theater: an uneven King Lear; a downright dismaying Anne Karenina

The ensemble for King Lear: Patrick Paige as Lear, Michael Milligan as fool, Shirine Babb as Kent, Matthew J Harris as Edgar The director and a few of the actors know the deep pessimism and agony of what humanity is, is the core of the play, that it is utterly serious, but the actors have … Continue reading “DC Spring theater: an uneven King Lear; a downright dismaying Anne Karenina”

Dickens’ problematic melancholy text, Little Dorrit: a large still book

Phiz (Hablot Browne), “Little Dorrit’s Party” — the chapter where we accompany Amy Dorrit and Maggie who walk, sit, and sleep on the streets all night long … I pretend to-night that I am at a party … I could never have been any use, if I had not pretended a little … Three o’clock, … Continue reading “Dickens’ problematic melancholy text, Little Dorrit: a large still book”

Graham’s Marnie now a Met HD opera

Isabel Leonard and Christopher Maltland as Marnie and Mark Rutland on their honeymoon Friends and readers, I regret to have to tell you that this beautifully-sung, acted, and orchestrated Marnie is as repulsive a misogynistic story as I’ve come across in a while — and with Trump as president that’s going some. Ann Midgette of … Continue reading “Graham’s Marnie now a Met HD opera”

Anthony Trollope as postman: two cheers for epistolary liberty

Anthony Trollope in old age, photograph by Julia Cameron Friends, An interlude. I interrupt our regularly scheduled programming about books, movies, cultural events. I promise not to go on for too long … I’ve written about Trollope as a semi-epistolary novelist (many times) and how the way he maps his imagined communities structures the working … Continue reading “Anthony Trollope as postman: two cheers for epistolary liberty”

Dream Material: from The Gabriels to Private Confessions; The Salesman to Do the Right Thing

From Bergman’s Wild Strawberries (1957) In terms of sexual politics, however, to borrow Lee’s own phrasing, women are also getting kind of funny about other people telling their stories — Thomas Chatterton Williams, a NYTimes Magazine semi-fluff piece on Spike Lee Dear friends and readers, My last was about this past year’s life in reading; … Continue reading “Dream Material: from The Gabriels to Private Confessions; The Salesman to Do the Right Thing”