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Drama/Advanture. USA 2016, 123 min. Directed by Timur Bekmambetov. Starring: Jack Huston, Toby Kebbel, Rodrigo Santoro, Morgan Freeman. In English with Russian subtitles. Judah Ben-Hur, the heir to a Jewish kingdom, is falsely accused of treason by his best friend and adopted brother. For this, Ben-Hur is sentenced to forced labor, without even the opportunity to say goodbye to his own family. After spending many years fighting in the Roman coliseums, he finally earns the chance to return to his homeland and get revenge on his accused. Timur Bekmambetov continues his successful stint in Hollywood and returns with a remake of the famous 1959 film, directed by William Wyler, which received 11 Oscars - an Academy record.
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11:35, 14:10, 21:40. Comedy/Romance. Ireland, Great Britain, France, USA 2016, 125 min. Directed by Sharon Maguire. Starring: Renée Zellweger, Patrick Dempsey, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson. In English with Russian subtitles. Bridget Jones is pushing 40. She now lives in an apartment in the centre of London, her career as a news producer is on the rise, and it seems to her for the first time that she has her life under control. But her ability to end up in the wrong place at the wrong time – and with the wrong man – hasn’t gone anywhere. Now Bridget is pregnant and has no idea who the father of her future child is – a sweet billionaire or a famous lawyer. The long-awaited continuation of the Bridget Jones saga, 11 years after the most recent movie’s release. The film is based on newspaper columns by Helen Fielding from eight years ago.
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Comedy/Drama. USA 2016 ,94 min. Directed by Woody Allen. Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Steve Carell. In English with Russian subtitles. In the 1930s, young Bronx native Bobby Dorfman (Jesse Eisenberg) arrives in Hollywood in the hopes of finding a job in the film industry, where his uncle Phil (Steve Carell) works. Phil is a well-known Hollywood agent, and Bobby discovers the world of film stars, backstage drama, and the high life, while falling in love with Phil’s secretary (Kristen Stewart). Woody Allen’s 47th full-length film has a full complement of celebrities: Corey Stoll, Parker Posey, Blake Lively, and Sheryl Lee, alongside the aforementioned Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, and Steve Carell – and opened the 69th annual Cannes Film Festival. The legendary Vittorio Storaro (“Apocalypse Now,” “The Last Emperor,” “Dune”) served as cinematographer.
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| Jiri Menzel Retrospective: Closely-Watched Trains |
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19:30, 19:35. Tragicomedy. Czechoslovakia 1966, 92 min. Directed by Jiri Menzel. Starring: Vaclav Neckar, Josef Somr, Vladimir Valenta, Vlastimil Brosky, Jitka Zelenohorska. In Czech with Russian subtitles. Based on a story by Bohumil Hrabal. The Second World War is coming to an end. At a tiny but strategically important Czech railway station, “special trains” pass by every day, heavy with war materials and weapons. At the same time as Wehrmacht soldiers frantically try to stave off their impending doom, the workers at the station solve their everyday problems. A young station guard, Milos Hrma, desperately wants to become a man, while the lothario conductor Hubicka manages to officially insult the Reich by imprinting the young telegraphist Zdenicka’s thighs with the station’s all-important official stamps…In this ironic tragifarce, Menzel’s dreamy lyricism comes together with the influence of the German grotesque. The film was honored with an Oscar and was for a long time the “calling card” of Czech cinema. The film will be presented by the director, Jiri Menzel.
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23:10 | Quickie, Love is So |
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Comedy. Spain 2016, 102 min. Directed by Paco León. Starring: Natalia de Molina, Álex García, Jacobo Sánchez. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Five stories about love in Madrid; five couples in search of happiness who find it by playing out their most secret sexual desires. Fears are overcome, taboos are broken, and now nothing can keep them from from their experiments in love. A new film from Goya laureate Paco León, who studied the subject of love and sincerity in the hopes of showing the feelings that many of us feel compelled to hide behind our “moral” façades.
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Thriller/Drama/Biography. USa, Germany, France 2016, 134 min. Directed by Oliver Stone. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scott Eastwood, Nicolas Cage, Zachary Quinto. In English with Russian subtitles. The story of infamous CIA agent Edward Snowden, who accomplished one of the most massive political reveals in the history of the United States. In June 2013, he revealed secret documents pertaining to the total surveillance by the United States of both American and foreign citizens. After this, he was forced to flee the country and, after several moves, spent three weeks in a Moscow airport. A biographical thriller from director Oliver Stone, based on Luke Harding’s book, “The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World’s Most Wanted Man,” and Anatoly Kucherena’s “Time of the Octopus.” The role of the agent is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
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12:00, 01:05. Drama/Biography. USA 2016, 96 min. Directed by Clint Eastwood. Starring: Tom Hanks, Anna Gunn, Laura Linney, Aaron Eckhart. In English with Russian subtitles. The story of Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger, who on 15 January 2009 landed a plane with two failed engines in the Hudson River in New York. Nobody on board was seriously hurt. As a result, the event was called the “Miracle on the Hudson,” and Sullenberger was considered for official government recognition. But in spite of the admiration shown by the public, the relentless scrutiny of the press and the public investigation into the incident put the pilot’s reputation and career on the line, completely changing his life in the process. Clint Eastwood’s 37th film, based on the memoirs of the famous American pilot. The role of Sullenberger was played by Tom Hanks.
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09:10 | The Light Between Oceans |
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Drama. USA, Great Britain, New Zeland 2016, 130 min. Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Starring: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz. A veteran of the Western Front of World War I, Tom Sherbourne, is working as a lighthouse keeper. He and his wife, Isabel, live on a remote island not far from the Australian coast. In spite of their best efforts, the couple can’t manage to conceive children: several of Isabelle’s pregnancies have already ended in stillbirth, and it is slowly driving her mad. One day, a small boat washes ashore with a baby, and Isabel convinces Tom not to tell the coast guard, but to instead take the baby in as their own. When the girl grows older, they meet a woman named Hannah, whose daughter disappeared into the sea at roughly the same time as Isabel and Tom found theirs. Alicia Vikander, Michael Fassbender, Rachel Weisz, and Caren Pistorius star in the screen adaptation of the M.L. Stedman novel
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