Notes from Underground
Walkow's second film, Notes from Underground, was adapted from the Dostoevsky novella. Walkow reset the story to contemporary Los Angeles. Dostoevsky's text was in the form of a first person journal. Walkow changed this framing device to a confession made to a video camera. The film stars Henry Czerny, Sheryl Lee, Jon Favreau, and Seth Green. Robert Frank, who authored the five volume study of Dostoevsky, regarded Walkow's film as the best film adaptation of Dostoevsky. Frank had been a Professor of French Literature at Princeton when he first read Notes from Underground. Profoundly moved by the book, Frank changed the course of his life to study Dostoevsky.