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[threeplusfire]

Saw Memento this afternoon at the Arbor. Whoa. My head is still spinning from it. I can't imagine how arduous a task editing that film was. The way it usees time is quite different, even more extraordinary than jumping around like say Pulp Fiction. It was good, and a movie one needs to watch over and over. I need to email Hana and send her to see it. Maybe I'll take her.

Also saw a preview of The Luzhin Defense, based on Nabokov's novel. I'm not sure how I feel about this. But if I can, I will probably see it. The Luzhin Defense is the original Russian title, though why exactly it was changed in the English translation I forget. It's one of my favorite pieces of Nabokov's, fantastically constructed. One can quite literally play a game of chess through the paragraphs. It's the only reason I ever wanted to play chess.

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[tsarina.livejournal.com]

The preview looked very Merchant/Ivory, which is not a bad thing as I like many of their films. Yet I worry, because I've so rarely seen good film adaptations of books, much less Nabokov.

Though I did like Lynne's version of Lolita, even though it earned me the kiss of death from one of my editors. I distinctly remember her telling me quite loudly that I "Would go to hell" for not worshipping Kubrick's version. *sigh* Ahh the life of a film critic.