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19:30 | AmFest: Indignation |
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Drama. USA 2016, 110 min. Directed by James Schamus. Starring: Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Tracy Letts. Set in 1951, the story follows Marcus Messner, the idealistic son of a humble kosher butcher from Newark, N.J. Marcus leaves for Ohio to study at a small, conservative college, where he finds himself at odds with the administration, grapples with anti-Semitism and sexual repression and pines after a troubled girl. More info
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21:40 | AmFest: The Meddler |
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Comedy/Drama. USA 2015, 100 min. Directed by Lorene Scafaria. Starring: Susan Sarandon, Rose Byrne, J.K. Simmons. An aging widow from New York City follows her daughter to Los Angeles in hopes of starting a new life after her husband passes away. More info
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14:30 | Bridget Jones’s Baby |
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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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Drama. France, Germany, Belgium 2016, 130 min. Directed by Paul Verhoeven. Starring: Isabelle Huppert, Laurent Lafitte, Anne Consigny. In French with Russian subtitles. A successful businesswoman gets caught up in a game of cat and mouse as she tracks down the unknown man who raped her.
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19:30 | Jiri Menzel Retrospective: Larks on a String |
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Tragicomedy/Political Film. Czechoslovakia 1969, 80 min. Directed by Jiri Menzel. Starring: Rudolf Hrusinsky, Vaclav Neckar, Vlastimil Brodsky, Jitka Zelenohorska, Frantisek Rehak, Leos Sucharipa. In Czech with Russian subtitles. Based on the stories of Bohumil Hrabal. The action in this caustic invective against totalitarian society unfolds in the 1950s at a steelworks, where the government sends those who have displeased the ruling regime to be reeducated. The hard labor must beat respectable members of society – which is to say, ones who don’t ask questions – out of a philosopher, an attorney, and a former merchant, on the factory’s patented metal troughs. However, in spite of the hopelessness of their situation, the heroes don’t wallow in their misery, but rather relate to their surroundings with humor, and in doing so save their inner freedom and faith in “moral law.” The film was shelved immediately after it left the cutting room, and sat there unwatched for 20 years. Received the Golden Bear at the 1990 Berlin Film Festival.
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19:30 | Manet: Portraying Life HD |
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Documentary. Great Britain 2013, 94 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky, Ben Harding. In English with Russian subtitles. This acclaimed exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts is the first ever retrospective devoted to the portraiture of Edouard Manet. Spanning this enigmatic and, at times, controversial artist’s entire career Manet: Portraying Life will bring together works from across Europe, Asia and the USA. Manet’s portraiture has never been explored in exhibition form, despite it forming around half of his artistic output. He painted his family, friends and the literary, political and artistic figures of the day, giving life not only to his subjects but also to Parisian society. The exhibition consists of more than 50 works; including portraits of his most frequent sitter, his wife Suzanne Leenhoff, luminaries of the period; Antonin Proust, Émile Zola and Stéphane Mallarmé, along with scenes from everyday life revealing Manet’s forward-thinking, modern approach to portraiture. The cinema event also reveals exclusive behind-the-scenes moments of the exhibition’s preparation, which normally go unseen by the public, and interweaves a detailed, superbly crafted biography of Manet and 19th century Paris. Host Tim Marlow and special guests will look at the craft of one of the all-time great artists.
Formula Kino Lubyanka |
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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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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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19:15 | The First Monday in May |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 90 min. Directed by Andrew Rossi. In English with Russian subtitles. Follows the creation of The Metropolitan Museum of Art's most attended fashion exhibition in history, "China: Through The Looking Glass," an exploration of Chinese-inspired Western fashions by Costume Institute curator Andrew Bolton.
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14:00 | 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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Comedy/Drama. USA 2016, 88 min. Directed by Todd Solondz. Starring: Greta Gerwig, Keaton Nigel Cooke, Tracy Letts, Julie Delpy, Kieran Culkin, Danny DeVito, Ellen Burstyn. A dachshund passes from oddball owner to oddball owner, whose radically dysfunctional lives are all impacted by the pooch.
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