Anatoly Antohin's profile

After the End, July 11, 2009

The book is late. The catastrophe took place already. Dick Morris must know it better than anybody else -- it's the real catastrophe of morals, the true core of American conservatism. He was in the White House and saw it, he was in DC and participate in it. Financial (and economic) crisis is the result of this end of American principles. No more business common sense, no more idea of decency or shame. Too late cry "socialism" -- twenty years too late. The end of the Cold War was the time to return to American values, instead we went on the same path of self-destruction as USSR went -- the worse lies of all = lying to yourself. Too late to cry "Obama" after Clinton and Bush, my friend. "Yes,… Read more

Author Cinema, August 1, 2007

After two deaths at the end of July (Bergman and Antonioni) one more appreciates the revolution in film language, which took place in the 1960s.
Fellini has a different spot in this era of Film-Becoming-Poetry. In near future his dicoveries would be valued no less than Eisenstein's or Vertov's. In many ways Amarcord (and Rome) is more sofisticated than 8.5, which is constructed around plot (last cry of modernism), when the PoMo (late) Fellini is focusing story around thought-feeling, that is a true existential EVENT. Is possible for a requiem to be humorous?
Dante called it "Divine Comedy" ...
I hardly know any episode that doesn't belong to the poem... I think it is a… Read more

A Radical Common Sense View, August 7, 2004

You have to be in businnes or teaching acting for long time to appreciate this book fully. I don't remember when last time I read with the same interest anything on Method Acting theory. I will recommend "The End of Acting" to my Advanced Acting classes. Besides, it's a good read, although the subtitle "A Radical View" loaded with a double irony -- it's "A Common Sense View"! It will take me a while to incorporate the notes on Richard Hornby's book, I plan to do in on method.vtheatre.net pages. If Mr. Hornby would take another shot at this book with less attention to the polemical aim (very relevant today), the book has a chance to become a classic text. [I save the last star for the next… Read more