The First Scene shows the shoes of the guy who hang himself with the letters: K.S. = Kubrick Stanley. I think Roman whote this movie mirroring the Life of Stanley and Mr. Kubrick do the same with Eyes wide Shut who portraits the life of Polansky.
Stupendous selection, superb editing. A great deal of thought must have gone into producing it. There goes a genuine movie geek, if ever there was one.
Where the rainbow ends is reference to mkultra where they go through induced trauma to eventually detached from reality and go to "where the rainbow ends" or "follow the yellow brick road"
A little fun fact is that they had a Swedish actress in both their movies. Marie Richardson acted in Eyes Wide Shut and Lena Olin acted in The Ninth Gate.
to took me another 20 years to discover mad dog killer........I never really paid much attention to the tv in the scene......I was too engaged in watching Robert work with Quentin........