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Drama/Biography. USA 2016, 115 min. Directed by Antonio Campos. Starring: Rebecca Hall, Michael C. Hall, Tracy Letts. The story of 1970s TV reporter Christine Chubbuck who commited suicide live on the air. Christine is an unblinking yet also understated character study of an unstable woman with a consuming professional drive, who hits a wall as her 30th birthday approaches and sees no way around it. Played out against the unfolding of Richard Nixon's fall from grace on the national political stage, the film juxtaposes that dramatic news fodder with the mind-numbing items Christine is forced to cover on her community-interest beat — strawberry festivals, egg production, zoning disputes. Even when she tries to get her teeth into a story, micromanaging every segment with backup from her supportive cameraperson, Jean, her irascible producer, Mike, yawns. With ratings in the toilet and advertising down, Mike delivers a new mandate calling for juicier stories: "If it bleeds, it leads." But Christine fights him every step of the way, refusing to sensationalize work that she approaches with integrity. Her eventual attempts to compromise, by uncovering some grit in sunshiny Sarasota, are unimpressive. But when word trickles down that station owner Bob Anderson is looking to poach talent for a new network in Baltimore, a top-30 market, Christine's bids to play the game become more manic. More info
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19:30 | AmFest: Hello, My Name Is Doris |
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Comedy/Drama/Romance. USA 2015, 95 min. Directed by Michael Showalter. Starring: Sally Field, Max Greenfield, Tyne Daly. After a lifetime of being overlooked and ignored, a woman of a certain age finds her world turned upside down by a handsome new co-worker and a self-help seminar that inspires her to take a chance on love in Hello, My Name is Doris, a witty and compassionate late-life coming-of-age-story. Awards and festivals: SXSW Film Festival - Audience Award. More info
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14:30, 19:10. 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: Seclusion Near a Forest |
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Comedy. Czechoslovakia 1976, 95 min. Directed by Jiri Menzel. Starring: Josef Kemr, Zdenek Sverak, Daniela Kolarova, Ladislav Smoljak, Jan Triska. In Czech with Russian subtitles. A married couple with two children spend their vacation in the woods. While renting a room from old man Komarek, they hope to soon buy his entire house from him, for the old man is planning to leave the business and move in with his son in Bratislava. However, time is passing, and the owner of the house won’t move from his place. He quickly gets used to his guests, and begins to consider them his own family…This film is convincing proof of how Menzel, seriously limited in his choice of subjects for his films after the suppression of the Prague Spring, managed to find a worthy creative outlet in the genre of “popular comedy.” The film’s authors found an endless source of comic situations in the differences in lifestyles between city-dwellers and country folk.
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12:15 | 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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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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17:00 | 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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09:15 | 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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