Word: dostoyevskian
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...long lives, interrupted by a little jail time (Frank's life sentence was commuted to 15 years). It is also improved by the fact that Crowe's bumptious character comes to enjoy the man's company, even becoming his attorney when he leaves law enforcement. It's the old Dostoyevskian bit about cop and crook being brothers under the skin. In the film, the only truly loathsome villain is a crooked cop, Detective Trupo, played with wonderful brutality by Josh Brolin, who encourages us to think that the only real crime is to interrupt the smooth flow of criminal entrepreneurship...
...season's Don Quixote. "The classical ballet is so perfect in itself - it can't die away," he says. So far, Ratmansky's strategy is paying off. If the smiles and good cheer at its Moscow headquarters are any clue, Ratmansky has pulled the Bolshoi out of its deep Dostoyevskian funk. "There's a great feeling there, one of family and teamwork," says Wheeldon, who recently spent nearly two months working on his new piece with the company. Ticket sales are brisk, and this season will see some 60 more performances than last. And among dance historians, authors and critics...
...across the tundra, a half-starved revolutionary escaped from a Russian prison camp. Already onstage are a marooned regiment of Czech soldiers, a sexy lady photographer and a bizarre Christian sect of people whose zeal leads them to castrate themselves. With these chess pieces Meek stages a stunningly bleak Dostoyevskian drama, exploring the exaltation of the human spirit and the grotesqueries of the human body?the book's title refers not to sex but to cannibalism...
...lead cop, Vincke (Koen De Bouw), is almost as interesting as Ledda, acting out the familiar Dostoyevskian paradox of the policeman who instinctively identifies with the criminal he is pursuing. He is also embroiled in a jurisdictional dispute over the case, which frustrates his pursuit of it. He's a busy guy, our Vincke, always in danger of losing the cool reasonableness that, because it matches Ledda's calm but murderous inventiveness, is his largest strength...
...samurai and in 1970 finally committed seppuku, the ancient samurai ritual suicide, after failing to inspire a coup d'Etat. Mishima was thoroughly steeped in the traditions of Western literature - his early work shows the imprint of Oscar Wilde and The Temple of the Golden Pavilion is wholly Dostoyevskian - but he was obsessed with the notion of purifying the national character and returning Japan to its pre-Meiji era values. What is perhaps most surprising about Mishima is that his increasing political fanaticism barely tainted his artistic vision and judgment. The final novel in his Sea of Fertility tetralogy...