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21:00 | Beat Film Festival: Fonko |
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Documentary. Sweden 2016, 87 min. Directed by Göran Olsson, Daniel Jadama, Lars Lovén. The great musical revolution of our time is taking place in Africa, affecting hundreds of millions of people. But only few have told the story of this avalanche of amazing, innovative and visual music. Fonko gives a unique glimpse at the sounds of Africa, as well as travels to rapidly developing cities like Lagos, Luanda, and Johannesburg. The narrator of Fonko is one of the greatest African music revolutionaries, Fela Kuti, as if speaking from the grave. Fela was also a Nigerian political activist, uniting the change in the society, as well as the breakthough in sound. Fela died in 1997, his voice will come from old recordings. More info
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19:30 | Beat Film Festival: Heart of a Dog |
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Documentary. USA, France 2015, 75 min. Directed by Laurie Anderson. Starring: Lollabelle, Archie, Jason Berg, Heung-Heung Chin. A dreamy documentary that first seems to be world-known artist Laurie Andreson’s lament over her death of her beloved rat terrier Lolabelle, a dog whose boho West Village existence included painting lessons and a meditation teacher. However, there is something deeper than that in the movie, with Anderson narrating over a collage of 8mm home video, iPhone footage, canine-level camera, and animation. When Lou Reed’s resonant “Turning Time Around” comes on the soundtrack, it becomes clear that telling the story of her cherished dog has been a way of mourning the loss of someone else than her pet. A magical meditation on love and death, as well as a celebration of life to enjoy while we’re still here. More info
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: The Season in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger |
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Documentary. USA 2016, 90 min. Directed by : Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, Bartek Dziadosz. Starring: John Berger, Yves Berger, Melina Berger, Vincent Berger. The documentary is the result of a five-year project by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe, Christopher Roth, and Bartek Dziadosz, to produce a portrait of the intellectual and storyteller John Berger. It comprises four films about Berger, each shot by one of the directors. However, boundaries merge here, with creators crossing over and popping up in their collaborators’ films, with the whole project turning out to be a reverential, though most of the time informal, warm and affectionate, love letter to a father figure and a mentor that is the 80-year-old writer and artist John Berger. More info
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19:00 | Beat Film Festival: The Show of Shows |
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Documentary. Iceland, UK 2015, 76 min. Directed by Benedikt Erlingsson. Starring: Sigur Ros. Welcome to the circus: Icelandic director Benedikt Erlingsson takes you on a spectacular journey across a century of circuses, carnivals, and vaudeville. UK’s National Fairground Archive was the essential source of archival footage for the feature, mixing Super-8 home movies, classic Edison films, amateur footage and any other kind of moving-picture material from the beginning of cinema through the 1960s. Although there is no narrative in one sense – the film is almost completely wordless – the story is there in the editing, and in the soundtrack, composed by Sigur Ros among others. Beauty queens, human cannonballs, knife throwers give way to animal acts like lionesses riding on horseback, and polar bears on seesaws. All this circus parade leaves us somewhat in discomfort, and wondering: aren’t we still attracted to the idea of a show we’ve never seen before? And why? More info
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17:00 | Beat Film Festival: Uncle Howard |
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Documentary. UK, USA 2016, 96 min. Directed by Aaron Brookner. Starring: Rutger Hauer, Madonna, Ronald Reagan, Jim Jarmusch, Andy Warhol. Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in 1989, at the age of 35. He was gay; an Ivy League graduate; broke artist; rising Hollywood star; heroin user; jet-setter; bohemian; seedy nightlife lover; director of cult docs; an honest and devoted friend – he was many things to many people. To director Aaron Brookner, he was a loving and inspirational uncle. His body of work, which captured the late 70s and early 80s cultural revolution, was buried in William S. Burroughs’ bunker in New York for 30 years. Now in a deeply personal journey, his nephew Aaron unearths Howard’s filmmaking legacy and the memory of everything he was. Through conversations with family and close friends – including Jim Jarmusch and Tom DiCillo – comes an exploration of the New York City in the 70s and 80s, the eruption of the AIDS plague, sex, drugs, politics, and the amazing artistic determination of a filmmaker whose life was cut short. Featuring rare archival footage of William Burroughs, Patti Smith, Allen Ginsberg, Madonna, and more, the film reveals a portrait of the tumultuous and mysterious life, struggles, and untimely death of Howard Brookner. More info
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19:00 | Beat Film Festival: Waiting for B |
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Documentary. Brazil 2015, 71 min. Directed by Paulo Cesar Toledo, Abigail Spindel. Starring: Charles Angels, Bruno Brunet, Rick Caled. To wait two months in front of a stadium to get front row spots to a Beyoncé concert is something few fans can do (and would do). But if you are a Beyoncé fan in Sao Paulo, this is the only option, if you want to secure a good seat for the superstar’s spectacular show. Who are those people going for such lengths to see their Queen B? The Beyoncé phenomenon has given the city’s persecuted homosexuals both a voice and a place in the limelight: her show in the Brasilian megapolis quickly becomes a meeting place for youths who in all other walks of life encounter a wall of discrimination, but who can here finally revel in full bloom –and in full drag, if that’s what you’re into. ‘Waiting for B’ is a compelling portrait of an entire (fan) culture, but also a pretext to talk seriously and candidly about Brazilian society, discrimination and the consequences of poverty. More info
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20:00 | Beat Film Festival: Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars |
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Documentary. UK 1973, 90 min. Directed by D.A. Pennebaker. Starring: David Bowie, Mick Ronson, Trevor Bolder. This documentary is a testament of the past, when things were done differently: the funny clothes, technical mishaps, AV effects and the fortunate non-existence of smartphones blocking the experience. It’s also a piece of cultural memorabilia capturing perhaps the most amazing musician of all times at his best: Bowie has always known how to play his audience, and the film shows him as a fiercely concentrated performance artist on and offstage, micromanaging everything from his makeup palette to the length of his kimono sleeves. To cut a long story short, are you ready for some time travel? London, Odeon Theatre, July 3, 1973. Don’t miss this.More info
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Documentary. Sweden, Netherlands, Italy 2015, 110 min. Directed by Fredrik Gertten, Magnus Gertten. Starring: Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Fabio Capello, Ronald Koeman, Leo Beenhakker, Hasse Borg, Marco van Basten, Jari Litmanen. In English, Swedish with Russain subtitles. The decisive years of Swedish footballer Zlatan Ibrahimovic, told through rare archival footage where a young Zlatan speaks openly about his life and challenges. The film closely follows Zlatan, from his debut in Malmö FF in 1999, through his conflictual years with Ajax Amsterdam, up to the final breakthrough with Juventus in 2005. "Becoming Zlatan" is a coming-of-age film, depicting the complicated journey of this young, talented and troubled player who finally becomes a superstar in the international football world.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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Tragicomedy. France, Czech Republic, Belgium 2015, 129 min. Directed by Xavier Giannoli. Starring: Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret. In French with Russian subtitles. Paris, 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman, lover of the music and the opera. She loves to sing for her friends, although she's not a good singer. Both her friends and her husband have kept her fantasy. The problem begins when she decides to perform in front of a real audience.
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22:00 | Meeting People is Easy |
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Documentary. UK 1998, 99 min. Directed by Grant Gee. Starring: Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien, Colin Greenwood, Phil Selway. Meeting People Is Easy is a Grammy-nominated documentary following legendary British rock band Radiohead on their 104-concert world tour following the success of their 1997 album OK Computer. Unlike most music-focused documentaries, this film deals mostly with the downside of being on the road: director Grant Gee observes the band as they are booked into a long series of non-descript arenas, invited to perform on award shows where they clearly feel out of place, and repeatedly answer the same questions from an endless parade of journalists, with lead singer Thom Yorke often seeming to buckle under the strain. The film is an intimate exploration of the effects of super-stardom, and super-stress it entails.
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Fantasy. USA 2016, 136 min. Directed by Bryan Singer. Starring: James McAvoy, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence, Oscar Isaac. In English with Russian subtitles. With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.
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