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23:00, 23:50. Drama, Crime. Japan, United Kingdom 2019, 108 min. Directed by Takashi Miike. Starring: Masataka Kubota, Sakurako Konishi, Nao Ohmori, Shota Sometani. In Japanese with Russian subtitles. A new film from Japanese cult classic director, the indefatigable experimentalist Takashi Miike, is an explosive mix of crime thriller, romantic melodrama, and black comedy. The young and terminally ill boxer Leo becomes the accidental savior of a call girl, Monica, who found her way into the grasp of the Yakuza. Having not even managed to fall in love at first sight, they end up in a whirlpool of Tokyo’s criminal nightlife. The young people are pursued by corrupt police, drug dealers, and killers sent by the Chinese Triads. Will they live until sunrise and preserve their young love?
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13:00, 23:20. Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Crime. USA 2019, 130 min. Directed by Rian Johnson. Starring: Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Michael Shannon, Ana de Armas, Christopher Plummer. In English with Russian subtitles. A clever contemporary interpretation of a classic detective story in the style of Agatha Christie. The family of a famous detective story author, Harlan Thrombey, gathers together in his house to celebrate the patriarch’s 85th birthday. But in the morning, they find him dead—someone’s stuck a knife in the old man’s throat. The police are joined in the mansion by the curious and gallant detective Benoit Blanc, hired by a family member who preferred to remain unknown but is nevertheless eager to find the truth. Benoit must separate false traces from real ones and untangle a twisted mass of lies in order to find the murderer among all of the deceased writer’s family members and servants: after all, each of them has something to hide.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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15:30. Documentary. USA, Germany, UK 2018, 91 min. Directed by Werner Herzog, André Singer. In English with Russian subtitles. The film is based on three extensive interviews with the first and only president of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev. He tells the story of his life, from his childhood in a Stavropol village to his retirement, including shots from newsreels and comments from the former President of Poland Lech Walesa; the last President of the Hungarian People’s Republic, Miklos Nemeth; the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, George Shultz; and advisor to Helmut Kohl, Horst Teltschik. Legendary director Werner Herzog and his co-author Andre Singer give audiences the opportunity to reassess the landmark events that Gorbachev initiated and think about how sharply and unpredictably the world changes before our eyes.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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09:10. Adventure, Melodrama. USA, UK 2019, 100 min. Directed by Tom Harper. Starring: Felicity Jones, Eddie Redmayne, Himesh Patel, Lewin Lloyd, Tim McInnerny. In English with Russian subtitles. In 1862, one of the first female hot air balloon pilots, Amelia Wren, and meteorologist James Glaisher decided to challenge weather—and conservative British society. They set off on a flight at previously untested heights in order to set a new record and make scientific discoveries, while finding their own place in the world that they left down below. But on the way, they will face physical and emotional trials that they have never faced before. The flight becomes a fight for the heroes’ survival and a real adventure for audiences.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Cumberbatch |
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19:00. Theatre production. UK 2011, 123 min. Directed by Danny Boyle. Starring: Jonny Lee Miller, Benedict Cumberbatch, Ella Smith, John Killoran, Steven Elliott, Karl Johnson, Daniel Millar, Lizzie Winkler. In English with Russian subtitles. Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein's bewildered creature (Lee Miller) is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker (Cumberbatch). Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and vengeful, determines to track down his creator and strike a terrifying deal. Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller shared both the Olivier Award and London Evening Standard Award for Best Actor for their respective performances. The Critics' Circle Theatre Awards' Best Performance by an Actor in a Play was given to Cumberbatch. The play also won the Olivier Award for Best Lighting for the filament light bulb installation designed by Bruno Poet.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Curry House Kid |
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20:00. Documentary. UK 2019, 45 min. Directed by Nick Poyntz. Star: Akram Khan. In English with Russian subtitles. At their height there were 12,000 curry houses in Britain, the vast majority run by Bangladeshi immigrants. Akram Khan’s father was one of them, and he expected his son to inherit the family business. But Akram had other ideas: he wanted to dance. Now he’s one of the world’s leading dancers and choreographers. This film sees Akram return to the curry houses of his childhood, meeting the chefs who created this culinary institution in the face of hostility and, often, violent racism. Exploring their stories of immigration, this most effortlessly global of artists comes face-to-face with his own past, his family history, and the reasons he became a dancer. All of this is woven into a poetic new piece of dance that tells a universal story – the immigrant experience in Britain.
Karo 11 Oktyabr |
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