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19:00 | AmFest 2017: Band Aid |
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Comedy/Romance. USA 2017, 91 min. Directed by oe Lister-Jones. Starring: Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally, Fred Armisen. A couple who can't stop fighting embark on a last-ditch effort to save their marriage: turning their fights into songs and starting a band. Awards & Festivals: Sundance Film Festival – participation; Calgary Underground Film Festival – Special Jury Award. Read more
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17:10 | AmFest 2017: Person to Person |
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Drama. USA 2017, 84 min. Directed by Dustin Guy Defa. Starring: Abbi Jacobson, Michael Cera, Tavi Gevinson. Follows a variety of New York characters as they navigate personal relationships and unexpected problems over the course of one day. Awards & Festivals: Sundance Film Festival - participation; Locarno International Film Festival - participation; Montclair International Film Festival - participation; Sarasota International Film Festival - participation. Read more
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15:00 | AmFest 2017: Sweet Virginia |
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Drama/Thriller. USA, Canada 2017, 105 min. Directed by Jamie M. Dagg. Starring: Jon Bernthal, Christopher Abbott, Imogen Poots. A former rodeo star, with a small time life, unknowingly starts a rapport with a young man who is responsible for the violence that has suddenly gripped his small town. Every character from his loved ones to his business patrons, plays a part in the unravelling of this community. Our aged hero must face his relationships of past and present to come up against this unpredictable predator. Awards: TriBeCa Film Festival - World Premiere. Read more
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Drama. USA 2017, 101 min. Directed by Benny Sadie, Josh Sadie. Starring: Robert Pattinson, Benny Safdie, Jennifer Jason Leigh. In English with Russian subtitles. Desperate to find work and get money to pay his debts, Connie plans a bank robbery. Connie’s partner in this heist is his mentally-challenged brother, Nick. The robbery is a failure, Nick ends up behind bars, and the bag with the money explodes, covering Connie in dye from head to toe. Feeling guilty for what she’s done to her brother, he decides to do whatever it takes to get him away from the police. A drama by Benny Safdie, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. The director himself played the role of Nick, with Robert Pattinson playing opposite as Connie.
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Criminal drama. USA 1995, 171 min. Directed by Michael Mann. Starring: Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer, Diana Venora, Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Ashley Judd. In English with Russian subtitles. Neil McCauley is a hero of the Los Angeles crime world. Against him stands Vincent Hanna – one of the best police officers in the city. They have a lot in common, but everything is on opposite sides of the law – against each other in a fight not for life, but for death. "Heat" is a film masterpiece by Michael Mann, who put two Hollywood greats on the same screen for the first time since "The Godfather 2:" Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Today, without this film about life, death, and fate, it would be impossible to imagine the crime drama genre, with all of its sharp-witted characters, 90s cinema or Los Angeles itself, a city of open spaces and an endless horizon – where you can’t hide from fate or yourself.
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18:00, 23:40. Thriller/Drama. Georgia, Russia, Poland 2017, 104 min. Directed by Rezo Gigineishvili. Starring: Irakli Kvirikadze, Tinatin Dalakishvili, Avtandil Makharadze. In Georgian with Russian subtitles. Movie describes real events that took place in 1983 when seven young Georgians, all from intellectual elite families, attampted to flee the Soviet Union by hijacking an airliner. The crisis ended with a storming of the airliner by Soviet special forces that resulted in eight dead. The surviving hijackers were subsequently tried and executed.
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15:30 | Kingsman: The Golden Circle |
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Action/Comedy. Great Britsain, USA 2017, 135 min. Directed by Matthew Vaughn. Starring: Taron Egerton, Julianne Moore, Halle Berry, Colin Firth, Mark Strong. In English with Russian subtitles. A new challenge for the Kingsman secret service: their headquarters has been destroyed, and the whole world is being held hostage by unknown criminals. The super-agents discover that on the very same day that their organization was founded, the Americans founded their secret counterpart: “Statesman.” Now these two elite services must join forces and challenge their common enemy. The second part of Matthew Vaughn’s spy thriller, with Julianne Moore as the lead villain.
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17:00 | Manet: Portraying Life HD |
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Exhibition film. 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.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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| Manhattan Short Film Festival |
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11:30, 23:50. Short films. New Zealand, Spain, USA, United Kingdom, Syria, Italy, Switzerland, Georgia 2017, 115 min. Directed by Rosanne Liang, Ángel Gómez Hernández, Stephen Ward, Ben Price, Ignacio Redondo, Pavel Gumennikov, Rana Kazkaz & Anas Khalaf, Marta Savina, Fabio Friedli, Gega Khmaladze. In the original with Russian subtitles. The famous festival celebrates its 20th birthday this year. In the programme are two “Sundance” nominees, an experimental animated film from Switzerland, and a Spanish thriller, as well as the first short films in the festival’s history from Georgia and Latvia, among others. Per tradition, the festival screenings will start simultaneously in Moscow and New York, Saint Petersburg and Madrid, Yaroslavl and Prague, Los Angeles and Ekaterinburg, and many other cities.
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Drama. France 2017, 84 min. Directed by Christian Carion. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Mélanie Laurent, Olivier de Benoist. In French with Russian subtitles. Julien is so obsessed with his work that he has no time left for his family. His constant business trips have ruined his marriage, and raising his seven-year-old boy, Mathys, has fallen on his ex-wife and her new lover. One day, he learns that the boy has been kidnapped, and he throws himself into the search. The further he goes into his investigation, the more desperately he wishes for revenge. An experimental film by Oscar and BAFTA nominee (for “Merry Christmas/Joyeux Noël”) Christian Carion. The film was shot in only six days, and Canet was entirely unfamiliar with the screenplay – he relied on nothing but personal experience and the experience of Mélanie Laurent, who followed her own script to the letter.
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Comedy. Italy 2017, 106 min. Directed by Simone Godano. Starring: Kasia Smutniak, Pierfrancesco Favino, Marta Gastini, Andrea Bruschi. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Sofia is a talented and ambitious TV anchor, prepared to achieve her goals by any means necessary. Andrea is a successful neurosurgeon. They’ve been together for ten years, and in order to return their prior love and mutual understanding, the couple undertakes an experiment which ends completely differently than expected. Now Andrea is Sofia, and Sofia is Andrea. As they find themselves in their spouse’s bodies, they must first learn a new (to them) profession, and then understand a great deal about each other.
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