by Nat Almirall, Nov 16 2012 // 3:30 PM
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This is the third adaptation of a novel Joe Wright has made with Keira Knightley and the second of a beloved classic. The problem is that most of the belovees have actually read Pride and Prejudice, while the many who approached Anna Karenina got about twenty or so pages into it before throwing up their hands in frustration trying to sort out the -iliaviches from the -oliaviches.
That’s not a problem for the film, however; rather I think it may hurt its chances at the box office. Then again, the novel did find new life due to the Gospel According to Oprah, and this provides what I imagine is an excellent primer.
For one, Russian novels may suit the screen even better than their English counterparts as it’s much easier to keep track of faces than names. And Wright seems aware of this, as the names are totally unimportant. A few are bandied about, but it’s never difficult to tell Anna apart from, say, Princess Myagkaya or Countess Vronskaya or Yppikaya (notably absent from the film).
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Tagged: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Adaptations, Alicia Vikander, Anna Karenina, Bill Skarsgard, Domnall Gleeson, Drama, Emily Watson, Holliday Grainger, Joe Wright, Jude Law, keira knightley, Kelly MacDonald, Leo Tolstoy, Matthew MacFadyen, Michelle Dockery, Olivia Williams, period pieces, Russian literature, Ruth Wilson, Shirley Henderson, Tom Stoppard
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by Sebastian Suchecki, Mar 22 2012 // 10:00 AM

Netflix has secured another original series with Hemlock Grove, a thrilling tale of murder and mystery adapted by Eli Roth (Hostel, Cabin Fever), is set to star Famke Janssen (X-Men, Nip/Tuck) and Bill Skarsgard (Anna Karenina, Simon and the Oaks). The series is set to be available for Netflix members to watch instantly, beginning early in 2013.
Set in a ravaged Pennsylvania steel town, Hemlock Grove starts with the body of a young girl, mangled and murdered in the shadow of the former Godfrey steel mill. There are a multitude of suspects from an escapee from the White Tower, a biotech facility owned by the former steel magnates, to a 17-year-old Gypsy kid named Peter from the wrong side of the tracks, who tells his classmates he’s a werewolf.
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Tagged: Anna Karenina, Bill Skarsgard, Brian McGreevy, Cabin Fever, Eli Roth, famk, Famke Janssen, Hemlock Grove, Hostel, J.D. Salinger, Mary Shelley, Netflix, Nip/Tuck, Simon and the Oaks, X-Men
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