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19:30 | AmFest 2017: Escapes |
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Documentary. USA 2017, 89 min. Directed by Michael Almereyda. Director Michael Almereyda showcases the storytelling talents of Hampton Fancher - flamenco dancer, film and TV actor, and the unlikely producer and screenwriter of the landmark sci-fi classic Blade Runner, as well as screenwriter on the upcoming sequel. Fancher's running commentary - with a little help from Philip K. Dick - works in concert with extensive archival footage as Fancher relates death-defying escapades from a remarkable life. Romantic misadventures, two brief marriages, and wayward acts of jealousy, chivalry, and friendship are mirrored in a parallel universe where Fancher plays cowboys, killers, fops, cads, and the occasional hero. Read more
Formula Kino Horizon  |
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17:30 | AmFest 2017: Katie Says Goodbye |
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Drama. USA, France 2016, 88 min. Directed by Wayne Roberts. Starring: Olivia Cooke, Keir Gilchrist, Christopher Abbott, Mary Steenburgen, Mirelle Enos, James Belushi. A kindhearted seventeen-year-old in the American Southwest turns to prostitution to fulfill her dream of a new life in San Francisco. Read more
Formula Kino Horizon |
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15:00 | AmFest 2017: Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer |
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Drama. USA, Israel 2016, 118 min. Directed by oseph Cedar. Starring: Richard Gere, Lior Ashkenazi, Michael Sheen, Dan Stephens, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Steve Buscemi, Hank Azaria. Norman Oppenheimer is the President of New York based Oppenheimer Strategies. His word-of-mouth business is consulting work largely in American-Israeli business and politics, that focus due to being Jewish. Most of that work is as a fixer: doing work that others don't want to do and with which they don't want to be officially associated. In reality, Norman is a shyster, and not a very good one at that. His office is comprised of his cell phone and whatever is stuffed in his satchel which is usually slung over his shoulder as he wanders the streets. What he promises is making connections, setting up a meeting between his guy and the other guy. Generally, "his guy" is non-existent, he dropping names of people he usually doesn't know to make connections. A usual tactic he uses is to say that his deceased wife was personally connected to so-and-so, such as being a babysitter, those stories always untrue. All he needs is for one of the people that he approaches to believe a story to build... Awards & Festivals: Cleveland International Film Festival - participation. Read more
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13:15, 16:15, 18:10, 23:20. Fanatasy/Thriller. USA, Canada, United Kingdom 2017, 163 min. Directed by Denis Villeneuve. Starring: Harrison Ford, Ryan Gosling, Robin Wright, Ana de Arms, Dave Bautista. In English with Russian subtitles. Officer K works in a special division of the LAPD, specializing in trapping runaway androids – a blade runner. One day, he is granted access to an ancient secret which, as far as he understands, puts the entirety of human existence in jeopardy. Wishing to find the key to the mystery, K decides to track down Rick Deckard, a former blade runner, who disappeared without a trace many years ago. A sequel to the 1982 masterpiece, filmed by Denis Villeneuve and produced by Ridley Scott. The soundtrack was created by some of the greatest contemporary film composers: Hans Zimmer and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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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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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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11:25 | 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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18:30 | Manhattan Short Film Festival |
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09:15, 19:10. 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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15:00 | Michelangelo: Love and Death |
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Exhibition film. Great Britain 2017, 91 min. Directed by David Bickerstaff. In English with Russian subtitles. To coincide with a glorious new exhibition at the National Gallery of London, this film offers a full and fresh biography of Michelangelo who, with Leonardo, is considered one of the greatest artists of the Renaissance – and perhaps of all time. This film explores his relationship with his contemporaries and his immense artistic practice that included painting, sculpture and architecture. Among the works explored are the universally adored David in Florence, the Sistine Chapel in Rome and the Manchester Madonna (today at the National Gallery). This major new film goes to the heart of just who was this tempestuous, passionate giant of art history.
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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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Biography. France, Belgium 2017, 119 min. Directed by Jacques Doillon. Starring: Vincent Lindon, Izïa Higelin, Séverine Caneele, Edward Akrout. In French with Russian subtitles. A story of the brilliant sculptor’s ascent to the top of the art world. This is the story of Auguste Rodin’s work, his countless love affairs, and his complex relationships with the women in his life – his talented student Camille Claudel and Rose Beuret, the mother of his only child.
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