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Leo Tolstoy tears down Tinsel Town

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From: The Scotsman
Date: 20020710
Author:Stephen Applebaum

THERE is nothing unique in it, of course. Billy Wilder, Robert Altman and Mike Figgis are just three directors who have delivered scathing portraits of Tinsel Town's vanity and madness. But there is more to Hollywood satire ivans xtc. than meets the eye. For one, it is not really about Hollywood per se, but a dying man's existential crisis and spiritual awakening. It is a surprisingly faithful adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilyich. This is not Rose's first brush with the Russian author. His previous film was a glossy, page-by-page adaptation of Anna Karenina, which was ...

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