Word: gogol
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Black Sunday (Galatea-Jolly; Al), for instance, is a piece of fine Italian handiwork that atones for its ludicrous lapses with brilliant intuitions of the spectral. Taken from a tale (Fry) by Nikolai Gogol, Black Sunday tells the story of a female demon who once every century rises from a moldy old Moldavian crypt to terrorize the countryside. Director Mario Bava makes subtle use of a Gothic setting-much of the film was shot in a medieval Italian castle-to enhance the Gothic mood. One shot is pure black magic. The vampire's coach, black as a hearse...
...joys of space. Sunshine flooded his cabin. "I saw with my own eyes that the earth was a sphere. Blue coronas on the horizons were really indescribably beautiful. The stars seemed brighter. The spaceship seemed to be standing still and the moon floating by," he rhapsodized, quoting Gogol's "dark sky over which the moon floats." Then he added: "The cosmos awaits the painters and poets...
Perhaps the most obvious of Chukhrai's talents is his surefire sense of comedy. The poor hilarious schlemiel of a train guard, for example, might have shuffled right off one of Gogol's funniest pages. But certainly the deepest of his gifts is his vital, life-accepting sense of humor. In the film's strongest scene, a rabble of Russian soldiers, ragged and cold and hungry, roll through the night behind the battle lines like cattle stacked in a boxcar and heading for the knacker. They look at each other, they look at what life has done...
...York's City Center, brilliant Pantomimist Marcel Marceau is doing everything from minor impressions of a high-wire performer to a wordless enactment of Gogol's The Overcoat; at the Phoenix Theater, Tyrone Guthrie's production of H.M.S. Pinafore slaps salt freshness into Gilbert and Sullivan...
...Manhattan's City Center, Marcel Marceau was for half the evening the superb solo mime he had proved before; in the second half, introducing his famous Compagnie de Mime, he performed movingly in a "mimodrama" of Gogol's The Overcoat. This igth century tale of an out-at-elbows clerk who for years toils obsessively to own a fine overcoat only, after an intoxicated moment of triumph, to be robbed of it, is one of literature's most surcharged parables, often with meanings beyond words. And without words Marceau at times approached those meanings as-against...