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Pavel Chirkov14.05.2020

It is impossible to control something boundless, but everything can be declared a zone of one’s interests. In the American film “Frankie Rulez!!!” by director San Charoenchai, the comic character Frankie does something similar. He teleports to various parts of the infinite Universe for the sole purpose of fixing flags everywhere with his own portrait […]

Eugenia Gorbunova01.05.2020

Throughout the history people are fascinated by freaks. Scared, disgusted, but still fascinated. And it is no surprise that we see freaks on the big screen. “Frankenstein”, “Freaks”, “The Elephant Man” so on and so forth… It is such a vivid way of showing the difference between human and non-human. Every time we see a […]

Leon Pufferson27.04.2020

Recently, I was revising my collection of animated films and came across a film that I recommend to watch for everyone over 50 years old. “La Maison en Petits Cubes” is either a cautionary tale of environment or a sentimental story. The world gets flooded and each time the water level goes up, the residents […]

Eugenia Gorbunova26.04.2020

“Nothing in life is perfect. Except for a lucky few…” What can be better than an endless holiday? Waking up every morning you understand that there is nothing more to do than to just enjoy yourself. That was the thinking of a creepy monkey-like creature. Every day is a celebration and in the best traditions […]

Kathryn Kazantseva23.04.2020

Probably, each of us at least once thought about thing, as about something living with our own feelings. People have always endowed the inanimate soul in ancient tales, in books, in films, and, of course, in cartoons. And for the Japanese it’s completely customary to believe that everything created by nature is a container of […]

Eugenia Gorbunova21.04.2020

Finding your place in the world might be not easy. And the life of a small acorn from the animated short “Acorn” is a good confirmation of this. When it was the right time he fell from his oak-tree and goes on an adventure chasing his dream. Sounds familiar? We, people, do exactly the same: […]

Film

“Lord” of the Universe

Who Do You Call a Freak Here?

Oscar-winning Absurd Story

Limits of Happiness

About Soul and Light

One Ordinary-Extraordinary Journey

Lubyanka — the KGB House in Moscow

Olga Chekhova — the “Queen of the Nazi Reich” and Russian Spy

Do Animals have Conscious Thought?

Gavriil Popov — the First Post-Communist Mayor of Moscow