• Favourites of the Moon. Soooo looooooong and sloooooow… Athmospheric.
• Mars attacks! Very funny and the message is clear: music will kill’em all.
• Vlyublyon po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu (In love, according to his wish). A Soviet comedy. Moralistic but still funny. I like the final scene: he and she, in bed, together! Don’t forget that sex was banned at that time, so they are rather dressed than naked. But in bed! That was something.
• SV - Spalnyy vagon (Vagon lit). A masterpiece in the rare genre: “perestroyka extra low budget trash”. Two men and two women meet in the train and discover that somehow they have met in the past, in the very embarassing situations. They just talk and fight. I suppose that half of the budget was spent for exotic frogs (also four of them). The ever drunken steward is trying to embalm them. Apart of these five people and four frogs, the train is empty and going nowhere. Obviously, it’s a metaphor for Russia, originally, if I am not mistaken, by Gogol: “Russia, where are you rushing? - No answer”. There is a novel by Pelevin, “Yellow Arrow” also written at Perestroyka times, also describing Russia as a train that is going nowhere.
• Million v brachnoi korzine. Such a disappointment.
• Dumb and Dumber. Words fail me. It’s one of my all-time favourites. I especially like the line with the blind kid and a dead parrot.

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