I like this film!! Perhaps because I have barely watched any pantomime before, I am really involved in the show and try to find out what will happen. As the characters in Nosteratu use there dramatic gestures and facial expressions … Continue reading
The film was excellent. It was an hour and a half long, but it really felt like short T.V. episodes, especially since a lot of the time is allotted to showing captions and comments. The one distinguishing mark of the … Continue reading
Within the first few minutes of the movie, I realized that I was watching a silent film. And in my naivety and twenty first century mindset, I expected a high quality, modern film like The Artist. Every thing that I … Continue reading
When I first searched up Nosferatu, I was extremely pleased to learn that it was a horror vampire film — two of my favorite things. I didn’t expect it to be as scary as the horror movies today, but that’s … Continue reading
Looking at the description for Nosferatu, I looked forward to an epic horror thriller. However, I was greatly disappointed. The music did not do the film justice. Yes, it gave the silent film a voice and fitted most scenes well, … Continue reading
Reading Gogol’s The Nose, I was thoroughly confused. One of my first thoughts were “What is up with these Eastern European guys writing about someone turning into a giant insect…and now about a runaway nose?” (after having read Kafka’s Metamorphosis as … Continue reading
This story is definitely on my list of strange symbolic tales. The idea of my barber accidentally cutting off my nose and then finding it in his bread is a scary image. Then waking up without my nose and seeing … Continue reading
When I started reading Nicholas Gogol’s The Nose, I didn’t know what to expect because it began with a barber, Ivan Jakovlevitch, having a normal conversation with his wife, Prasskovna Ossipovna. The description of Ivan’s cheap and dirty clothing reminded … Continue reading
“The Nose” by Nikolai Gogol was a very strange piece to say the least. While reading this short story, I immediately thought of Voldemort from the Harry Potter series, when Major Kovaloff realized he lost his nose. Over the course … Continue reading
Only a few pages into The Nose, I already felt myself making connections to the still-fresh-in-my-head Metamorphosis. The obvious similarity between the two was the ridiculously absurd storyline. When I first read that Kovalev’s nose had fallen off, I immediately pictured … Continue reading
