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13:30, 17:30, 19:25, 23:15. 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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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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09:15, 15:30, 21:20, 01:10. Drama. Spain 2016, 99 min. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring: Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, Michelle Jenner, Emma Suárez. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Julieta is just a bit over fifty and lives in Madrid, but is planning to leave her orderly life behind and move to Portugal. Her daughter Antia, only recently having turned eighteen, disappears with no explanation, immediately after her father and Julieta’s husband, Xoan, tragically dies. After twelve years, Julieta finds out by accident that her daughter is still living in Madrid. She moves back into an apartment in the house where she raised Antiaband begins to write her daughter letters, in which she reconstructs the history of her relationship with both her daughter and Xoan, as well as with her own parents. Pedro Almodóvar’s twentieth film, in which he again tackles the familiar subject of a woman’s destiny and the relationship of a mother with her children. The film is based on three stories by Canadian writer and laureate of both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, Alice Munro. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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17:35, 21:45. Drama. Spain 2016, 99 min. Directed by Pedro Almodovar. Starring: Adriana Ugarte, Rossy de Palma, Adriana Ugarte, Inma Cuesta, Rossy de Palma, Michelle Jenner, Emma Suárez. In Spanish with Russian subtitles. Julieta is just a bit over fifty and lives in Madrid, but is planning to leave her orderly life behind and move to Portugal. Her daughter Antia, only recently having turned eighteen, disappears with no explanation, immediately after her father and Julieta’s husband, Xoan, tragically dies. After twelve years, Julieta finds out by accident that her daughter is still living in Madrid. She moves back into an apartment in the house where she raised Antiaband begins to write her daughter letters, in which she reconstructs the history of her relationship with both her daughter and Xoan, as well as with her own parents. Pedro Almodóvar’s twentieth film, in which he again tackles the familiar subject of a woman’s destiny and the relationship of a mother with her children. The film is based on three stories by Canadian writer and laureate of both the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, Alice Munro. The film was nominated for the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival.
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21:00 | Les Vacances Françaises: Les souvenirs |
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Tragicomedy. France 2014, 92 min. Directed by Jean-Paul Rouve. Starring: Michel Blanc, Annie Cordy, Mathieu Spinosi, Chantal Lauby. In French with Russian subtitles. Romain is studying literature, and thinking about writing a book of his own, but his family won’t give him a break: his father can’t come to terms with retirement, his mother wants a more exotic life, and his favorite grandmother, after her husband’s death and her move to a retirement home, spontaneously sets off traveling alone without telling anyone. While searching for grandma, Romain learns to appreciate real life, off the page…
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21:00 | Les Vacances Françaises: Week-ends |
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Romantic comedy. France 2014, 90 min. Directed by Anne Villacèque. Starring: Karin Viard, Noémie Lvovsky, Jacques Gamblin, Ulrich Tukur. In French with Russian subtitles. Sometimes all it takes is one little thing to ruin a weekend in the country. A misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a single overreaction, a little tussle – and everything goes off the tracks. Nothing seems to be going right for Christine: Jean has dumped her, and her oldest friends, Sylvette and Ulrich, are avoiding her. It seems like her whole life is falling apart, but life is always full of surprises. A romantic story about loving and leaving each other, all over one weekend.
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11:20 | 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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11:50 | 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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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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14:15, 19:15, 23:50. Action. USA 2016, 130 min. Directed by David Ayer. Starring: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Margot Robbie, Cara Delevingne, Ben Affleck. In English with Russian subtitles. A secret government agency, led by Amanda Waller, recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute incredibly dangerous and difficult missions. Only they can save the world from an unknown but powerful threat – in exchange for their freedom. But if the team suffers a stroke of bad luck, the agency will place all the blame for the fallout on them and them alone. David Ayer’s action fantasy, based on the comic books by the same name, with Jared Leto (The Joker), Will Smith (Deadshot), and, of course, Ben Affleck as Batman.
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Action. USA 2016, 130 min. Directed by David Ayer. Starring: Will Smith, Jared Leto, Jai Courtney, Margot Robbie, Cara Delevingne, Ben Affleck. In English with Russian subtitles. A secret government agency, led by Amanda Waller, recruits imprisoned supervillains to execute incredibly dangerous and difficult missions. Only they can save the world from an unknown but powerful threat – in exchange for their freedom. But if the team suffers a stroke of bad luck, the agency will place all the blame for the fallout on them and them alone. David Ayer’s action fantasy, based on the comic books by the same name, with Jared Leto (The Joker), Will Smith (Deadshot), and, of course, Ben Affleck as Batman.
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Drama. Australia 2015, 118 min. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Kate Winslet, Hugo Weaving. In English with Russian subtitles. Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage (Kate Winslet) returns to her hometown, where her mother still lives, twenty-five years after she was accused of killing a local boy while still a child. The locals greet her with suspicion, and her mother, slowly descending deeper and deeper into dementia, doesn’t immediately recognize her. But for Tilly, returning home is the only way that she can get rid of the weight that she has been carrying around all these years. She wins over the local ladies with her ability to sew stunning dresses, and is dead-set on using it to restore her good name, rebuild her mother’s life, and unravel the secrets of her past. Jocelyn Moorhouse has returned to film to direct after an 18-yeear break with an intimate story about the quirks of human nature, the hunger for revenge, and the life of a small town where everyone has their own personal skeletons in the closet.
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Drama. Australia 2015, 118 min. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. Starring: Liam Hemsworth, Kate Winslet, Hugo Weaving. In English with Russian subtitles. Myrtle “Tilly” Dunnage (Kate Winslet) returns to her hometown, where her mother still lives, twenty-five years after she was accused of killing a local boy while still a child. The locals greet her with suspicion, and her mother, slowly descending deeper and deeper into dementia, doesn’t immediately recognize her. But for Tilly, returning home is the only way that she can get rid of the weight that she has been carrying around all these years. She wins over the local ladies with her ability to sew stunning dresses, and is dead-set on using it to restore her good name, rebuild her mother’s life, and unravel the secrets of her past. Jocelyn Moorhouse has returned to film to direct after an 18-yeear break with an intimate story about the quirks of human nature, the hunger for revenge, and the life of a small town where everyone has their own personal skeletons in the closet.
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11:50, 21:35. 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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19:30 | Theatre HD Summer Festival 2016: Rembrandt |
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Exhibition Film. Great Britain 2014, 96 min. Directed by Phil Grabsky. In English with Russian subtitles. Every Rembrandt exhibition is eagerly anticipated, but this major new show hosted by London’s National Gallery and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum is an event like no other. Given exclusive, privileged access to both galleries, the film documents this landmark exhibition whilst interweaving Rembrandt’s life story with the behind-the-scenes preparations at these world famous institutions. The exhibition focuses on the highlights from the final years of Rembrandt’s life, commonly thought to be his finest years. The masterpieces he produced during this period could be called his defining works, with each piece so soulful and honest that they helped sculpt our idea of Rembrandt as a man and as an artist. This film explores each of the exhibition’s key works, through contributions from specially invited guests including curators and leading art historians. For many, Rembrandt is the greatest artist that ever lived and this film seeks to explore the truth about the man behind the legend.
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