It's unlikely Sergei Zhukov* reads XKCD, but if he were to have, Munroe's [feeling old](https://xkcd.com/1757/) chart contrasts nicely with lots of old-age makeup and a little confetti...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2fNVztaC58

* whom we last saw on a stairwell, at 2:20 of "[Beauty](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10215/)"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITVaiyebFj8
appears (if my machine translation is reliable ... it seems one must pay attention to the verses in order to interpret the chorus) to be a 1990's interpretation of the genre of [Gaynor and Serduchka](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10342/).


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjHuQZlU7s

is a recent Baskov video.  The tune is, well, saccharine, but the video goes to great lengths to be a "mini-movie".  Or maybe even a "mini-musical"?  Not my genre, so I may be missing otherwise obvious references, but even so, between the credits, the narration, and all the wipes on the one hand, and the pacing (*pace* Кулешов?) on the other, I found it an interesting attempt at fusion.

In other bubblegum: IOWA, going a few decades less retro, not only plays with transitions, but also drops plenty of video references which I do get...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qwBQVYEWkA

...and just to fill out a troika, I don't find it one of [their](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgdP5U28jHc) [better](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ugivNRYfjc) [efforts](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et281UHNoOU), but Leningrad's latest director seems to have watched [far too much Tarantino](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmhbOgSKF9k) lately.  (or does that horse head come from Coppola?)


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## En passant

We've had no shortage of Carnaval songs, and a [running](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-2/10679/) [theme](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10484/) [of](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-3/10706/) [chess](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино/10419/), but Friske and Leontev manage not only to combine both themes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vi6iOvWqkJI

but have set the russian themes and lyrics to a popular number from a french musical:

« les rois du monde »
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIx7z7J6uew

(compare, both for form and content, to a [more recent](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDZKoJ5XMco) francophone number)

... then again, there's always the combination of algebraic notation and slapstick in the chess episode of "Masha and Medved":

"knight's move"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1t8-QjiJ4U#t=27


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ФАБРИКА - А я за тобой
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6amCG2KHlRg

*also* has a retro element, if not so obvious as either their [baroque tendency](http://www.ravshaniya.com/#9aae2c620588907dd10bed77f0028a4e.jpg) or [those](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-4/10834/) we've just [seen](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/о-русской-музыки-и-кино-4/10871/): once one gets past the frame story, it's a quotation of "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style":

Если-б я был султан -- Кавказская пленница
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aFimeu-4DM

I already had this movie on the queue because of Geekfish's [mention](https://thoughtstreams.io/Geekfish/russian/10177/)  of [Shurik](https://thoughtstreams.io/Dave/russian/10195/), but this mention is yet more impetus to get around to it.  In the meantime, it seems apparent that one major difference over the last half-century is the cheesecake level; compare the 2016 video to the 1966 "song about bears":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr-ru9zFw48#t=92