book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++

[Andrew Foley]

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From: Dave Monroe <monroe at mpm.edu>
To: MalignD at aol.com <MalignD at aol.com>
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Date: 8 July 2000 06:39
Subject: Re: book rec?/ if you enjoyed P, try these /++


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The Strugatskys' Definitely Maybe (Fredric Jameson, by the way,
>complains that this is a "stupid" translation, but I can't recall his more
>literal take on the title)

Something like "A billion years to the end of the world".


was also filmed, y a different Soviet director (can't
>reacll the name)

I do believe it was Aleksandr Sukorov.  I saw him in person, about twelve
years or so ago, when he visited Glasgow, long before any of his films got a
British distribution.

>as Days of Eclipse.

I saw this film ten years ago, when I lived in London, during the season of
films that the National Film Theatre presented to accompany Fredric
Jameson's tenure as BFI Visiting Fellow.  It's possibly the most boring,
tedious and incomprehensible piece of shit ever perpetrated on celluloid
(>the< most boring, tedious piece of shit ever, Bruno Nuttyen's _Camille
Claudel_, falls down on the count of being comprehensible).  I saw _Days of
Eclipse_ again, by mistake, a couple of years later, and if anything it was
even worse the second time.