Slog - Comments on Liveblogging War and Peace http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace The seven-hour Soviet War and Peace is in residence at SIFF Cinema for two whole weeks. This film is long (seven hours long) not because the book on which it is based is long, but because the subject of its story is the state. And any story the state has to tell is going to be a very, very long one. War and Peace was not made by a director, a mere individual, but by the state itself: the USSR. The state made it in 1968, paid a fortune for its production (the critic Michael Atkinson claims that in today’s... Copyright 2008 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:22:02 -0800 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:18:17 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Line Out Fan thank god that will be over by the time dan starts live blogging the next project runway. you had me worried.

]]> Line Out Fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871445 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871445 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:24:52 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle I just can't wait for you to liveblog all the deathly dull reality TV shows we'll be living with soon ...

Must. Not. Jump.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871496 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871496 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:46:13 -0800 Comment by Clint Did he lose a bet or something?

]]> Clint http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871506 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:50:07 -0800 Comment by lol the only thing worse than sitting through 7 hours of war and peace: 7 hours of mudede pontificating on the hegelian dialect that is war and peace, and anything else that comes to his mind.

]]> lol http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871555 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871555 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:22:54 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley http://youtube.com/watch?v=AW1_oJ4q-_I

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871564 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:27:29 -0800 Comment by Jim Demetre It's OK to laugh at Austen but not to giggle.

]]> Jim Demetre http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871652 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871652 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:41:09 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE In "Love and Death" Woody Allen's comedic masterpiece, "War and Peace" is distilled down to 85 minutes of brilliant satire, word play and japery. "Shall we share his letters?" "Yes, I'll take the consonants, you may have the vowels."

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871707 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871707 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:44:45 -0800 Comment by mirror The BBC 18 episode version with Anthony Hopkins kicks Bondarchuk's butt for getting the tone of Tolstoy's work and characters. I highly recommend it for lovers of the book War and Peace who find Bondarchuk's film irritating.
IMNSHO

]]> mirror http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871870 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/12/liveblogging_war_and_peace#c871870 Film Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:18:17 -0800