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11:05, 23:45. Mystery. Iran 2016, 107 min. Directed by Mani Haghighi. Starring: Amir Jadidi, Ehsan Goodarzi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh, Nader Fallah. In Persian with Russian Subtitles. An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building.
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13:05, 19:30. Fantasy. USA 2016, 108 min. Directed by James Bobin. Starring: Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Sacha Baron Cohen. In English with Russian subtitles. Alice returns to the whimsical world of Wonderland and travels back in time to save the Mad Hatter.
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21:00 | Beat Film Festival. Janis: Little Girl Blue |
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Documentary. USA 2015, 104 min. Directed by Amy Berg. Starring: Janis Joplin, Cat Power, Karleen Bennett, Laura Joplin, Michael Joplin. anis Joplin is one of the most revered and iconic rock’n’roll singers of all time, a tragic and misunderstood figure who thrilled millions of listeners and blazed new creative trails before her death in 1970 at age 27. This in-depth examination, presented by the Oscar-nominated director Amy Berg, is an intimate and insightful portrait of a complicated, driven, and often beleaguered artist. Joplin’s own words tell much of the film’s story through a series of letters she wrote to her parents over the years, many of them made public in the film for the first time. A new understanding of a bright, complex woman whose surprising rise and sudden demise changed music forever.
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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.
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22:00 | Beat Film Festival: Innocence of Memories |
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Documentary. UK 2015, 97 min. Directed by Grant Gee. Starring: Pandora Colin, Mehmet Ergen. Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature, opens a museum dedicated to a fictional doomed love story in 70’s Istanbul, illustrating the fictional with real, tangible artifacts: from 4,213 cigarette butts in a glass case to a collection of salt shakers. Director Grant Gee interlaces the story of this unique institution’s genesis with that of the romantic encounter that inspired it, a meditation on the city itself, and Pamuk’s relationship to all three. Documentary and archive footage, interviews with the writer, enactments of the doomed love adventures of the couple, a poetic look at the objects in the museum: all that takes the viewers on an elegant and dreamily sensous tour of memory, longing, love and loss. Public Talk with Grant Gee, Apollinaria Avrutina and Anna Narinskaya before the show (June 3, 20:00, Strelka Institute).
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19:30 | 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?
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19:00 | Beat Film Festival: We are X |
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Documentary. UK, Japan, USA 2016, 93 min. Directed by Stephen Kijak. Starring: Yoshiki, Toshi, Pata. X Japan was formed by childhood friends, Yohiki and Toshi, who ignited a musical revolution in Japan during the late 80s, created a famous Japanese cultural rock phenomenon called ‘Visual-Kei’, and were the biggest Japanese superstars in history: 18 sold out nights at the Tokyo Dome venue hosting 55,000 spectators, over 30 million albums sold worldwide. But their success never translated to the West, and the group eventually broke up in 1997, leaving millions of devastated fans and the frontmen battling with their physical and spiritual demons. Twenty years afterwards, renowned director Stephen Kijak traces their super-stardom and dissolution up to the present day, as X Japan prepare for a long-awaited reunion at the Madison Square Garden. Tune in for the story of the most influential band in the world that you haven’t heard of… yet.
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19:00 | 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.
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09:15, 17:30. Documentary. USA 2016, 86 min. Directed by Matthew Miele. Starring: Fran Lebowitz, Baz Luhrmann, Jessica Biel, Katie Couric, Amy Fine-Collins, Rachel Zoe. In English with Russian subtitles. A past to present fully authorized documentary of Tiffany & Co.
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11:55, 19:50. Drama. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Jodie Foster. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito. In English with Russian subtitles. In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
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15:20, 19:10, 21:40, 23:40. Drama. USA 2016, 98 min. Directed by Jodie Foster. Starring: George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell, Dominic West, Giancarlo Esposito. In English with Russian subtitles. In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
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Drama. Italy 2012, 122 min. Directed by Guendalina Zampagni. Starring: Michele Cesari, Diane Fleri, Alessandro Haber. In Italian with Russian subtitles.
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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 101 min. Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Gustave Kervern, Chiara Mastroianni, Ana Girardot. In French with Russian subtitles. Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 101 min. Directed by Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern. Starring: Gérard Depardieu, Benoît Poelvoorde, Vincent Lacoste, Gustave Kervern, Chiara Mastroianni, Ana Girardot. In French with Russian subtitles. Chaos ensues when a father and son travel to a farm festival via the Wine Trail in a Parisian taxi.
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11:00 | The Legend of Barney Thomson |
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Comedy/Crime. UK, Canada 2015, 96 min. Directed by Robert Carlyle. Starring: Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, James Cosmo. In English with Russian subtitles. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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13:50 | The Legend of Barney Thomson |
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Comedy/Crime. UK, Canada 2015, 96 min. Directed by Robert Carlyle. Starring: Emma Thompson, Robert Carlyle, Ray Winstone, Martin Compston, James Cosmo. In English with Russian subtitles. Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
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13:00, 21:20. Fantasy. USA 2016, 130 min. Derected by Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga. InEnglish with Russian subtitles. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
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Fantasy. USA 2016, 130 min. Derected by Duncan Jones. Starring: Travis Fimmel, Paula Patton, Ben Foster, Dominic Cooper, Ruth Negga. InEnglish with Russian subtitles. The peaceful realm of Azeroth stands on the brink of war as its civilization faces a fearsome race of invaders: orc warriors fleeing their dying home to colonize another. As a portal opens to connect the two worlds, one army faces destruction and the other faces extinction. From opposing sides, two heroes are set on a collision course that will decide the fate of their family, their people, and their home.
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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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