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09:30, 13:50, 16:00, 18:15, 22:20, 00:15. 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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10:00, 19:25. 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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Comedy. France, Belgium 2016, 101 min. Directed by Dominik Moll. Starring: François Damiens, Vincent Macaigne, Veerle Baetens, Jeanne Guittet, Tom Rivoire, Michel Aumont. In French with Russian subtitles. Philippe Mars is a typical “small man:” he works in IT, but dreams of space. His children consider him a loser; his sister – a nerd; and even the ghosts of his dead parents poke fun at him. Everything changes with the appearance of his funny, somewhat scary colleague, Jérôme. Along with his mistress, freshly escaped from a psychiatric clinic, they turn Philippe’s house and life upside down and force him to make a real choice for the first time in his life: to fly to Mars. A new comedy from two-time Palme d’Or nominee Dominik Moll (“Lemming,” “With a Friend Like Harry / Harry, un ami qui vous veut du bien”). The film premiered at this year’s Berlin Film Festival.
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Drama. Italy 2014, 94 min. Directed by Davide Ferrario. Starring: Walter Leonardi, Manuela Parodi, Eugenio Franceschini. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Ugo (Walter Leonardi) is a jobless erudite who kills time riding his bike, reading (and profusely citing) poet/philosopher Giacomo Leopardi, and otherwise lounging around the motley suburban house he inherited from his deceased parents. When he’s not brooding alone in bed, he playfully chats up his two housemates: the handsome zookeeper and aspiring writer, Dario (Eugenio Franceschini), and the romance-seeking travel agent, Maria (Manuela Parodi), whom Ugo desperately tries to get in the sack. As the different storylines never quite coalesce, Ferrario tries to weave them together via a series of artsy, documentary images of Turin, which, as a voiceover explains, is located on the 45th parallel and thus equidistant between the North and South Poles. While such moments feel tacked on to the rest of the movie and never add much to the characters, they do offer up a virtual sightseeing tour of the city, captured by cinematographer Dante Cecchin in vibrantly lit, widescreen compositions (some of which are purposely lopsided, in a stylistic move that can be distracting).
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11:40 | Pelé: Birth of a Legend |
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Biography. USA 2016, 107 min. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist. Starring: Kevin de Paula, Seu Jorge, Mariana Nunes, Leonardo Lima Carvalho. In English with Russian subtitles. A biographical drama about the whirlwind beginnings of Brazilian wunderkind Edson Arantes do Nascimento’s football career – better known to the world as Pelé. While growing up in the slums of Sao Paulo, Pelé first stepped onto a football pitch for an official match at age fifteen, and within two years he brought Brazil a World Cup with the deciding goal against the hosting Swedish team. The young Zimbalist brothers’ biopic is not so much a documentary about the outstanding career of one of the most famous athletes of the 20th century as it is the story of a footballer who couldn’t and wouldn’t play like everyone else – and instead turned his playing style into a world standard.
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17:25 | Pelé: Birth of a Legend |
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Biography. USA 2016, 107 min. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, Michael Zimbalist. Starring: Kevin de Paula, Seu Jorge, Mariana Nunes, Leonardo Lima Carvalho. In English with Russian subtitles. A biographical drama about the whirlwind beginnings of Brazilian wunderkind Edson Arantes do Nascimento’s football career – better known to the world as Pelé. While growing up in the slums of Sao Paulo, Pelé first stepped onto a football pitch for an official match at age fifteen, and within two years he brought Brazil a World Cup with the deciding goal against the hosting Swedish team. The young Zimbalist brothers’ biopic is not so much a documentary about the outstanding career of one of the most famous athletes of the 20th century as it is the story of a footballer who couldn’t and wouldn’t play like everyone else – and instead turned his playing style into a world standard.
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11:10, 15:45. Action. USA 2016, 120 min. Directed by Justin Lin. Starring: Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Simon Pegg, Anton Yelchin, Karl Urban, Idris Elba. In English with Russian subtitles. The events of the film unfold two years after the beginning of a new five-year mission for the team aboard the USS Enterprise. The ship withstands an attack by an unknown alien race and is left practically destroyed. Spock and several other members of the crew disappear. Captain Kirk and the remaining crew members perform an emergency landing on a distant planet, where they are dragged into conflict with a new and merciless foe that hates any and all representatives of the Federation. The 13th full-length film of Gene Roddenberry’s cult classic franchise, and the third with J.J. Abrams (“Lost”) at the helm – though with Justin Lin (“True Detective”) in the director’s chair this time.
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Adventure/Comedy. USA 2016, 95 min. Directed by Dan Kwan, Daniel Scheinert. Starring: Paul Dano, Daniel Radcliffe, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Timothy Eulich, Richard Gross, Marika Casteel. In English with Russian subtitles. Having gotten stuck on a desert island, Hank was prepared to give up all hope, but everything changed when he finds a corpse on the shore named Manny. As time goes on, he begins to speak and help Hank survive in the wild and find joy in life. Together, they set off on an epic journey to return Hank to the girl of his dreams. An absurdist hit! A tragicomedy by young American newcomers which instantly gave birth to a whole internet cult following after its premiere – owing, no doubt, to the comedic duo of the year: Paul Dano as Robinson and Daniel Radcliffe as the living corpse. The film won Best Director at Sundance.
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20:30, 20:35. Film Noir/Thriller. USA 1947, 87 min. Directed by Orson Welles. Starring: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane. In English with Russian subtitles. On a deserted street in nighttime New York, the unemployed sailor Michael O’Hara (Orson Welles) frees the beautiful Elsa from hooligans. She introduces herself as a Russian girl, originally from Shanghai. Though Michael senses something funny, Elsa half-tricks him into working on a yacht owned by her husband, the successful (and polio-ridden) lawyer Arthur Bannister. Smitten on the spot by the blonde bombshell, Michael sets off together with them on a cruise to San Francisco. And slowly falls into a deadly trap set by his companions. Orson Welles’ visually-stunning and technically-advanced noir, The Lady from Shanghai, was one of the first big Hollywood films primarily shot on location, rather than in the studio. San Francisco became one of the central locations, with its long and hilly streets, opening into deep narrowing perspective shots, tram tracks, ocean boardwalks, and gigantic public parks, all of which took on an ominous character in Orson Welles’ imagination. The unbelievable “Lady from Shanghai” has appeared on many lists of the “best films of all time,” and the final scene, in a hall of mirrors – an infernal funhouse – has long been considered one of the greatest achievements of cinematic art.
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13:30, 18:05, 22:30, 00:50. Thriller. France, Denmark, USA 2016, 118 min. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves. In English with Russian subtitles. The young Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves out of her podunk hometown to Los Angeles in the hopes of becoming a model. She rents a cheap room in a dubious motel and agrees to a photo session with the first photographer she meets. Soon she begins to attract the attention of agents who have grown tired of the stereotypical look of California models. Jesse’s quick rise can’t help but attract the jealousy of her competitors, and her friendship with the stylist-turned-mortician Ruby (Jena Malone) doesn’t bode well. A new film by Nicolas Winding Refn (director of “Valhalla” and “Drive”) that caused an uproar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A frightening fairy tale about the Los Angeles fashion world, which is turned into a two-hour-long surrealist performance by the glitz, flashes, neon lights, and Cliff Martinez’s music – reminiscent either of a David Lynch movie “or a very sick version of a Calvin Klein commercial,” according to Variety.
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Thriller. France, Denmark, USA 2016, 118 min. Directed by Nicolas Winding Refn. Starring: Elle Fanning, Christina Hendricks, Keanu Reeves. In English with Russian subtitles. The young Jesse (Elle Fanning) moves out of her podunk hometown to Los Angeles in the hopes of becoming a model. She rents a cheap room in a dubious motel and agrees to a photo session with the first photographer she meets. Soon she begins to attract the attention of agents who have grown tired of the stereotypical look of California models. Jesse’s quick rise can’t help but attract the jealousy of her competitors, and her friendship with the stylist-turned-mortician Ruby (Jena Malone) doesn’t bode well. A new film by Nicolas Winding Refn (director of “Valhalla” and “Drive”) that caused an uproar at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. A frightening fairy tale about the Los Angeles fashion world, which is turned into a two-hour-long surrealist performance by the glitz, flashes, neon lights, and Cliff Martinez’s music – reminiscent either of a David Lynch movie “or a very sick version of a Calvin Klein commercial,” according to Variety.
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15:00 | Theatre HD Summer Festival 2016: Girl with a Pearl Earring |
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Exhibition Film. Great Britain 2014, 80 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. Discover the secrets behind one of the world’s most enigmatic masterpieces. ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ by Johannes Vermeer is one of the most enduring paintings in the history of art. Even today, its recent world tour garnered huge queues lining up for the briefest glimpse of its majestic beauty - In Japan 1.2 million people saw the exhibition. Yet the painting itself is surrounded in mystery. This beautifully filmed new documentary seeks to investigate the many unanswered questions associated with this extraordinary piece. Who was this girl? Why and how was it painted? Why is it so revered? After its world tour, the ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ returned to the much-loved Mauritshuis in The Hague, Netherlands, which has just completed extensive renovations. Enjoying unparalleled exclusive access to this historical exhibition, the film takes the audience on a journey as it seeks to answer many of the questions surrounding this enigmatic painting and its mysterious creator, Vermeer. Using the recently completed and highly complex makeover of the museum as its starting point, the film goes on a behind the scenes detective journey to seek out the answers that lie within the other masterpieces housed in the collection.
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