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Tag: Alexander Alexeieff

Posted on July 16, 2018

Fun Size Review: The Nose (1963)

Ukrainian author Nikolai Gogol’s gloriously funny story about a disembodied nose would seem to be unfilmable and yet the husband-wife animation team of Claire Parker and Alexander Alexeieff managed to create a brilliant silent short.

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Posted on March 28, 2017March 28, 2017

The Nose (1963) A Silent Film Review

A young Russian official awakens to find that his nose is missing. He then discovers that it is not only alive and well, it is wearing a splendid cape and has a higher rank in the civil service than he does! An adaptation of Gogol’s absurdist classic using the pinscreen animation of Claire Parker and Alexandre Alexeieff.

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