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On the Subjectivity of Gaze in 'The Silence of the Lambs'
January 3, 2026
Author: Evgeny Raev
Analysis of how cleverly and brilliantly the film works with the subjectivity of gaze — through whose eyes and how we look at what's happening in the film.
Crossing Parallel Film Universes: How Tarkovsky and Trejo Connect
December 15, 2025
Author: Константин Макаров
A quick dive into one of those film-industry coincidences that make my brain melt: the family tree linking Danny Trejo, Andrei Konchalovsky, and Andrei Tarkovsky.
There's a film with James Belushi, 'K-9, Dog's Work'. And I only found out today that K9 (kay-nine) in English sounds like 'Canine', which is literally the scientific term for 'Dog'...
Remember the old jokes about Donald Duck never wearing pants or how Goofy is dressed while Pluto isn't? Here’s a playful taxonomy of cartoon wardrobe choices.
For me, one less mystery today — what exactly sounds in the Netflix intro (the iconic tu-dum intro). It turns out, it's the sound of a fist hitting a table — and not some abstract fist, but a very specific one...