Alexander Luzhin has a weak defense. He recognizes this midway through a chess game against an Italian grand master whom everyone expects to win. The winner will be named world chess championship. We ...

Turning a Vladimir Nabokov novel into a movie is no easy task. His work, though celebrated worldwide, is notorious for being difficult. Screenwriter Peter Berry and director Marleen Gorris (the ...

Set in the late 1920s, "The Luzhin Defence" tells the story of a shambling, unworldly chess Grand Master who arrives in the Italian Lakes to play the match of his life and unexpectedly finds the love ...

The festival closes as it began with an adaptation of an early twentieth-century novel by Vladimir Nabokov, The Luzhin Defence, a disappointing finale to what has been a very strong program overall.

THE similarities are obvious between director Marleen Gorris's "The Luzhin Defence" and "Shine," Scott Hicks's 1996 film about madness-damaged genius and the healing power of love. And not just ...

On a weekend dominated by Olympic coverage and political chatter, PBS debuts the third season of its period melodrama “Hotel Portofino!” (8 p.m. Sunday, TV-14, check local listings). The series ...

New on video store shelves this weekend: THE LUZHIN DEFENCE: Dutch filmmaker Marleen Gorris ("Antonia's Line") has turned Vladimir Nabokov's 1930 Russian-language novel "The Defence" into an absorbing ...

Vladimir Nabokov considered The Luzhin Defense, a case study of a chess champ’s midtournament crack-up, to be the warmest of his Russian novels—and although the writer is no one’s idea of a humanist ...

If you couldn’t care less about Vladimir Nabokov, whose early Russian novel this feature purports to be based on, and if you like John Turturro and Emily Watson regardless of whether you can identify ...

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