Анна Каренина

I saw Joe Wright's Anna Karenina this weekend and I have to say that I rather liked this special adaptation. The theater as a framework to tell a story of people who live and love ( and suffer ) in a social straitjacket was a good idea.

It was a unusual movie setting giving an impression that you were watching a live performance in a theatre concert hall. I viewed the movie at a cable TV - on demand video channel.

Rating: Four stars, good acting performance by Keira Knightley and Jules Law. Keira performed very well in classics and drama- Atonement, Pride and Prejudice (re-made),but also good as well in comedies. Must See.

Huh. I saw the play at Portland Center Stage last year - I wonder is it the same one? It was great, I love live theater and I had read the book about a year and a half prior to seeing the play.

I thought it got off to an excellent start and had some wonderful staging to it (don't get to say that about many movies), but unravelled along the way. By the end, I felt that I was whizzing through the cliff notes version of AK with a screen full of actors who were all breathless because there wasn't time to breath if you're going to fit AK into something close to 2 hours. I thought the actors were generally capable character actors but not particularly 19th-century-Russian-channelling. Let's face it, Kiera will act as if she's in Austen no matter what she's in, and, maybe, given the fondness of Russian aristocrats of the time for the trappings of the French and British, that's not too bad for Anna, but Vronsky needed a more Siberian chill and Oblonsky and Levin make no sense overly westernized (and Levin became more unbelievable toward the end, as he should have become more Russian). BUT, the real promise came from the cameras, choreography, and directing, and of which I was enjoying through about the first thrid, before the thing shot off like a runaway baby carriage down a long run of steps.

They should have just taken four or five hours and said to hell with it. Might have been grand then.

I would still say it's a bit of a must see, just because the director was doing some unusually artful work there at the beginning.

Yeah! I quite liked it when it went "runaway". Luv your cliff note analogy, but an entertaining movie all the same. The theater setting reminded me of a flea circus I once saw in Holland.

I love the way ( rich ) people dressed in those days.

Yeh, there is a wildness as it all devolved that was definitely fun. Quirky film for a studio job (that's praise, by the way).

I couldn't believe Jude Law was Karenin and not Vronsky. I haven't seen it yet.

(to be clear, I also think he'd be a bad Vronsky)

Very vad vronsky

I watched the first 10 minutes; then, after projectile vomitting all over the TV, went to occupy myself more usefully and enjoyably by ironing my socks.

Freshly ironed socks are nice.

I would love to have video of TC Murr ironing his socks.

When I stayed with my aunt in Innsbruck she would iron all my socks and unders and I'd try to get her to stop but "Martin," she'd say in a tone of utter resolve, "Ich bin Hausfrau." Then we'd all get together in the evenings and projectile vomit over some nice kaffee and kuchen. A veritable pukeklatsch.

No wonder you were so sluggish when you reached Izola.

>14 MeditationesMartini: LOL

I heard they were going to make a video game of the movie. Can.t wait to try it out on my PS3 !

I am hard at work creating the pukeklatsch video game. I think this will be a winner.

Level 1 in a ballroom, try to get anna as your dancing partner. This can only be achieved by a choreography of weird hand and arm movements

Not me, I can't dance for shit. Oh, you mean HER.

Level 2:
shoot out Keira's bottom teeth one by one.

oh wait, they do her acting for her...mm..

Hey tc that is not fair !!
I remember you were quite infatuated by her a 32754 posts ago !

Level 3 :Anna : in the fast moving train, shaking and trembling, try to reach the loc. While trying to avoid to bUmp into Vronsky

Level 4 - Baby, baby who has the baby -- try to make sure someone else has the baby, preferably Karenin, whenever it spits, pees, or poops. Try to get the baby whenever it smiles or laughs. But not at the same time you're taking morphine or you and your lover are fighting or making love.

LOL, it gets tougher

lol, I like this game.

Level 5 this is the most difficult level.
count the wrinkles on Keira's nose every time she simpers.

Any student here who can help me get an article on jstor? Pleeaase

I need "how to redo things with words" by gerald prince, a commentary on claude simon's route des flandres

Ok got it, no need to respond to 26
I inscribed myself to the free part of jstor ( 3articles / 14 days )
I can now proudly assert that i am an independent researcher !
Wohoooooo ?

but mac, how is this going to help with level 5???????????

TC , it allows me to download the walkhthrus and cheats, identify the eastereggs,improve my malicious screenwatching and 360 noscopes on the right spots to campkill

Level 6 horserace !

You should win this race by avoiding Vronski's horsecrash right in front of you. You get bonus points by doing summersaults and other tricks on the horse and attrack Anna's attention away from the count so she does not give herself away to the SP socialites