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On the 100th anniversary of his birth, three grids celebrating the inimitable Toshiro Mifune in the films of his most frequent collaborator, Akira Kurosawa.
Mirror delusions in Jean Cocteau's ORPHEUS and David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DR.
In MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003), actors look at the camera repeatedly, including in the film's final frame (bottom right). Director Bong Joon-ho did this to communicate to the real murderer, still at large, that justice would never stop looking for him; in 2019, he was apprehended.
Eyes are the windows to the soul in Ridley Scott's BLADE RUNNER (top) and Denis Villeneuve's BLADE RUNNER 2049.
Nothing to CGI here: the creatures from REC, CRIMSON PEAK, THE CONJURING 2, and MAMA, all brought to life by actor Javier Botet.