{"id":120,"date":"2002-04-30T06:47:44","date_gmt":"2002-04-30T13:47:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=120"},"modified":"2008-06-16T06:48:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T13:48:48","slug":"surviving-desire-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/?p=120","title":{"rendered":"Surviving Desire &#8211; New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>New York, January 27, 1992<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>Surviving Desire<\/strong> By John Leonard<\/p>\n<p>The cigarettes that Mary B. Ward smokes in &#8220;Surviving Desire&#8221; (&#8220;American Playhouse&#8221;; Wednesday,              January 22; 9 to 10 P.M.; Channel 13) are bigger than she is, and so symbolic of her charming              pretension and her existential waifdom; she also wears black tights and asks questions like &#8220;Is              Marguerite Duras a lesbian?&#8221; In Hal Hartley&#8217;s 60-minute film, a sort of lopsided grin at love              and literature on a college campus in upstate New York, Ward plays the student Sophie [sic], as              in &#8220;Sophia,&#8221; who works in a bookstore, reads too much, and needs to know everything. She&#8217;s              either seduced by, or she herself seduces, Jude, her professor of Dostoevski, played by Martin              Donovan, who shows up in all of Hartley&#8217;s movies, like Kyle MacLachlan in David Lynch&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>We have been here before, in &#8220;Educating Rita&#8221; if not in &#8220;Death in Venice.&#8221; Nevertheless, I had              fun. Jude, of course, is obscure. Although an atheist, he is suffering a crisis of faith. After              lots of Father Zossima, a little Freud, much talk about love, action, fate, experience,              understanding, and regret, and even some Dennis Potter, he goes to bed and feels worse. On his              blackboard Jude will scrawl KNOWING IS NOT ENOUGH. Sophie has smoked him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York, January 27, 1992 Surviving Desire By John Leonard The cigarettes that Mary B. Ward smokes in &#8220;Surviving Desire&#8221; (&#8220;American Playhouse&#8221;; Wednesday, January 22; 9 to 10 P.M.; Channel 13) are bigger than she is, and so symbolic of her charming pretension and her existential waifdom; she also wears black tights and asks questions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.martindonovan.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}