She was by far the best thing about that Into the Woods adaptation thing.

Haters gonna hate, reviewers gonna review.

Zing!

Heh, the violin work was the only part of the show that reviewers loved. (This was a real thing. Laurie Anderson, naturally.)

For what it's worth, Interchangeable Marvel Action Hero #8 also headlined Ron Howard's last film, to generally warm reviews.

Werner Herzog for me. He's done excellent work in most of the novel's insane variety of registers: disaster flick, nature documentary, melodrama, etc.

How about as a three-hour multimedia presentation with the whale played by a woman with a violin?

He more or less does that in the weirder scenes of Being John Malkovich, after all.

*stands, applauds*

Absolutely… Although it's also kinda hard to explain the appeal of Russia's biggest 2014 film, Dukhless 2, to non-Russians.

There's also the flipside of that argument, where anything outside of Moscow* is viewed as the "real" Russia, where salt-of-the-Earth Russians are able to live their generally conservative lives without infection from the cosmopolitanism of the capital. That was a major theme in nationalist art from the 70s and early…

Last gasp of high-profile chernukha, at any rate. They've been trying to squash it for as long as it's existed, but without state funding and with increasingly concentrated media, it could be harder to produce works like this in the future. I'm surprised it's taken them this long to target it with policy, since…

It's also a much older archetype than Dostoevsky, but again, not having seen the movie, I don't know how deeply it draws from that. Still, I think the more immediate reaction to seeing the title is something in the yurodstvo tradition

It's a very typical Russian literary adaptation, which is "must film every word of the text, which is sacrosanct." Similar problems with their 10-part (!!!) Master and Margarita, taking a fast-paced book and turning it into a sleeping aid.

And also the name of a very popular Russian card game, but I have no idea if that's relevant to the movie.

The comments are the only reason I didn't throw my computer out the window.

Yeesh, did you see their review of Rushdie's latest, though? Be careful what you wish for.

I dunno… I like Northfork better than anything Gibson has directed.

My first reaction, too! This film had no involvement from Mark (who wrote Twin Falls Idaho and Northfork), so I'm going to draw my own conclusions about where the family talent lies.

I somehow read the headline as "Chris Parnell on being mistaken for Farrah Fawcett" and I was okay with that, too.