“Nabokov loved the comedy of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, and the Marx brothers, and more than thirty years later could reel off scene after scene in sharp-focus detail. He admired a few serious features like Dreyer’s La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc, Rene Clair, or the best of German Gothic (The Hands of Orlac, Murnau’s The Last Laugh).”—Brian Boyd, Vladimir Nabokov: The Russian Years
An excerpt from an interview with Alfred...