eugene hutz has an interview in the latest issue (fall 2005) of my favourite feminist arts mag, venus. there is also a review of the movie, but i don't really take it seriously or to heart, because the author of the article did not read the book.


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Who's seen it yet? Any thoughts?

( SPOILER WARNING. DO NOT READ if you don't want to be spoiled for the SIGNIFICANT CHANGES made in the plot. )

this is related to jonathan safran foer, but if this post was deleted and i would understand why.

i just thought i should post this link that i found for the movie version of jsf's other novel, extrememly loud and incredibly close. there is absolutely no information on who is in it. i haven't read this book yet because i just haven't gotten my ( Read more... )

In a book of such rich and interesting language, there are many beautiful passages and lines. What line from the book is your favourite? Why? After my third reading I went back and made a list of all my favourites, and I can narrow it down to two, both from Alex ( Read more... )

So glad to have found you!

Its amazing, the casting of Hutz as Alex. Gogol Bordello is very close to my heart. Its still difficult to believe the pieces fell this way, to have him playing Alex.

In case you are interested, here's a good source of pictures of Hutz for your icon-making:

Lately I've been wondering how the movie would deal with Brod's parts, because a large chunk of the novel is dedicated to her and the rest of JSF's family. I was thinking that they may not include any of it at all, which would be upsetting because I think that with the right direction and cinematograhy those parts could be done very well ( Read more... )

We know from the photograph in Augustine's box that Grandfather was identical to Alex when he was Alex's age. We also know, thanks to the (small) photo album at Who is Augustine, what Grandfather looked like in the year 1946, when he would have probably been in his twenties. Now I love Eugene Hütz, but he really isn't the Alex I pictured in the ( Read more... )

I went a little crazy with Photoshop and made a bunch of icons, relating to both the movie and book. Feel free to use with credit.

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Welcome.

To start off with, here are the links to the websites for both the book and the movie. The book's website, Who Is Augustine?, is a lot of fun to snoop around, and there is some interesting insight on both Alex and Jonathan. Also, if you search carefully, you can see what Alex looks like.