I resisted applying to Please Give the catchall funny-melancholy adjective “Chekhovian” because of an actual Chekhov movie opening: Anton Chekhov’s The Duel, based on one of the author’s rare forays ...

As the title hints, “Anton Chekhov’s The Duel” is an unusually faithful adaptation of an essential Chekhov story. Like the 1891 novella, this English-language production is a devastating portrait of ...

In ANTON CHEKHOV'S THE DUEL, escalating animosity between two men with opposing philosophies of life is played out against the backdrop of a decaying seaside resort along the Black Sea coast. Laevsky ...

Celebrants of the bourgeoisie love Anton Chekhov in part because he dignifies the inconsequential lives of a superfluous class. There's more than that; as noted by Vladimir Nabokov, Chekhov wrote sad ...

THE A-TEAM Joe Carnahan's big-screen adaptation of NBC's 1983 midseason-replacement-turned-three-seasons-running-hit is convoluted, overstuffed, turned up to 11, and yet, somehow, deadly dull — in ...

Dover Kosashvili's costumer offers surroundings so vibrant that tragedy seems an indulgence. Laevsky (Andrew Scott), a young aristocrat, has run away to the Caucuses with his married mistress Nadya ...

Aristocrat Laevsky (Andrew Scott) becomes locked on a tragic collision course with conceited scientist Van Koren after falling into financial ruin and growing tired of his alluring mistress Nadya in ...

I resisted applying to Please Give the catchall funny-melancholy adjective “Chekhovian” because of an actual Chekhov movie opening: Anton Chekhov’s The Duel, based on one of the author’s rare forays ...

Observing its characters’ faults with equanimity, Dover Koshashvili’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story “The Duel” treats the residents of a seaside town in the Caucuses as specimens of ...

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