----- Original Message -----
From: Dmitri
Nabokov
Sent: Sunday, July 27, 2003 5:14 AM
Subject: Comment on posts of the two Yuris, Leving and
Dashevsky
I found both posts
interesting, particularly with regard to Alexei Balabanov. Before he starts
"adapting" Camera obscura (Laughter in the Dark), I strongly recommend
that Mr. Balabanov have a good talk with my agent.
DN
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----- Original Message -----
From: "yuri
leving" <leving@usc.edu>
>
> The recent issue of a popular Russian men’s
magazine, Medved’ (“A Bear”),
features an interview with Alexei Balabanov,
the celebrated creator of such
post-Soviet blockbusters as “Brother” and
“Brother 2”. Balabanov reveals his
artistic plans (among other things, such
as hatred for Hollywood and the
West in general).
>
> Balabanov:
“I have five or six ideas [for new movies]. The first would be
to adapt
Nabokov’s “Camera obscura” (Laughter in the Dark – Y.L.)”
> Interviewer:
“A girl betrays a blind man, who is unaware of the betrayal?”
> Balabanov:
“Yes. And then there is the scene with the two adjacent hotel
rooms that
share a single bathroom. This is the most cinematic piece in the
Russian
literature!”
> (# 70, July-August 2003, P.
27).