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Action, Adventure, Fantasy. USA 2016, 115 min. Directed by Scott Derrickson. Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, Mads Mikkelson, Rachel MacAdams. In English with Russian subtitles. The famous neurosurgeon Steven Strange gets in terrible car accident, and his own wounds permanently damage his career. He refuses traditional treatment and sets off on a quest for healing. After he meets the Ancient One, the Supreme Magician of the World, he discovers his ability to alter space and time. In doing so, he becomes the link between parallel dimensions and Earth’s defender in a battle with impending doom. The 14th film in the Marvel universe, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch as the all-powerful magician and Tilda Swinton as the Ancient One.
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Drama. Great Britain, France, Belgium 2016, 100 min. Directed by Ken Loach. Starring: Dave Johns, Hayley Squires, Sharon Percy. In English with Russian subtitles. Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain. Awards: Cannes Film Festival - Palme d'Or, Ecumenical Jury Prize, Palm Dog; Locarno Internatonal Film Festival - Audience Award.
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15:50 | Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Werner Herzog. In English with Russian subtitles. In his new documentary film, “Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World,” which was first shown at the Sundance Festival, Werner Herzog immerses himself in the past, present, and future of the virtual world. With his German meticulousness and romanticism, he tells the story of the Internet, from its pioneers at the University of California to contemporary visionaries like Elon Musk. However, Herzog is not merely interested by the scientific and technological achievements, nor by apocalyptic predictions connected with the development of the World Wide Web - he wants to know why the Internet has so completely changed (and continues to change) our life, to the point that even the Buddhist monks that Herzog met would check their Twitter feeds as soon as they emerged from meditation. Herzog studies the digital landscape with the same passion and dedication with which he crossed the wild landscapes of the Amazon, Sahara, or Antarctica, and tells about the mutual influence of two worlds - the online and the real - and how the latter of which, thanks to the influence of the internet, will never be the same.
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19:30 | Show US! Festival of American Documentary Films: City of Gold |
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Documentary. USA 2015, 96 min. Directed by Laura Gabbert. In English with Russian subtitles. CITY OF GOLD chronicles Pulitzer Prize-winning restaurant critic Jonathan Gold’s deep and complex relationship with the food and culture of his city, Los Angeles. Gold has long been known for his robust writing about the hidden culinary treasures in LA; he was one of the first critics to review small family owned restaurants in far-flung ethnic enclaves with as much care as the haute cuisine establishments of Beverly Hills. With a stroke of his pen, he’s changed the lives of countless recent immigrants cooking the food of their homes. Festivals: Sundance Film Festival - participation.
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Drama/Biography. France, Belgium, Czech Republic 2016, 108 min. Directed by Stéphanie Di Giusto. Starring: Stéphanie Sokolinski, Gaspard Ulliel, Mélanie Thierry, Lily-Rose Depp. In French and English with Russian subtitles. 1887. After her father’s death, the young Marie-Louise sets off for New York in the hopes of conquering America and becoming a great actress. During one of her performances, a strange thing happens: the girl gets tangled in her dress and miraculously avoids falling by spinning the fabric around her. This disastrous scene unexpectedly drives the audience and her critics wild. The reviews claim that she has created a new kind of dance, full of emotion and free of boundaries and restrictions. The now-famous actress then leaves for Paris, where she becomes known by the name Loïe Fuller. She shines on the stage of the Folies Bergères, and the most distinguished men of the time consider her to be their muse. It seems like her dream has come true. However, she soon makes the acquaintance of the young Isadora Duncan, who is fated to eclipse her. The first full-length work by director Stephanie Di Giusto, nominated for the Caméra d’Or at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. The film was dedicated to the fate of Loïe Fuller – a legendary American dancer, who is considered to have founded the modern genre in dance art.
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09:15, 23:30. Thriller/Detective. USA 2016, 112 min. Directed by Tate Taylor. Starring: Emily Blunt, Haley Bennett, Rebecca Ferguson, Justin Theroux. In English with Russian subtitles. Rachel Watson commutes by train every day from her suburb to London, and always passes by a charming cottage, in the windows of which a married couple is always visible. One morning, she notices that the woman in the pair has gone missing. From that moment on, Rachel gets tangled in a confusing web of a story – after all, it may be the case that she saw from her train window something that nobody else did…A psychological drama by Tate Taylor (“The Help”), based on the famous novel by Paula Hawkins, which became one of the biggest British bestsellers of recent years.
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Comedy. Great Britain 2016, 98 min. Directed by John Michael McDonagh. Starring: Alexander Skarsgård, Michael Pena, Theo James, Stephanie Sigman. In English with Russian subtitles. Terry Monroe and Bob Bolaño are two unsuccessful cops, who travel all over New Mexico and make a living blackmailing all the petty criminals they find on their way. Any tactic is fair game for them: extortion, threats, setups… The money keeps flowing until the two try to get the jump on someone far more dangerous than their previous victims. Now they have to think not about their easy money, but about how to save their skins in an uncontrollable war on everyone. The first American film by John Michael McDonagh (“The Guard,” “Calvary”), coming on the heels of his series of Irish tragicomedies with Brendan Gleeson. The film premiered at the 66th annual Berlin Film Festival.
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23:35 | Where to Invade Next |
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Documentary. USA 2015, 120 min. Directed by Michael Moore. In English with Russian subtitles. Famous documentary filmmaker Michael Moore (“Fahrenheit 9/11”), armed with a camera and an American flag, sets off to “conquer” the most progressive European ideas in order to introduce them to America. To his surprise, he discovers that all these innovations of the Old World are forgotten fragments of the American Dream…Before the premiere of the film – whose filming process was carefully kept secret – Moore told reporters that his work was dedicated to the United States’ “perpetual war”: “After the September 11th attacks, America has a constant need to have an enemy to keep this whole military industrial complex alive and keep the companies that make a lot of money from this in business. Who’s our next enemy?” The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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