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| Belle Epoque (La Belle Époque) |
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02:05, 16:40, 19:00. Melodrama, Comedy. France 2019, 115 min. Directed by Nicolas Bedos. Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Fanny Ardant, Guillaume Canet, Doria Tillier, Pierre Arditi, Denis Podalydes, Michael Cohen. In French with Russian subtitles. If you could travel to any time period, which would you choose? Victor, an elderly caricature artist, wanted to return to May 1974, when he first met his future wife Marianne. A special firm organizes these “time travels” with the help of actors, perfectly recreated sets, and costums. For Victor, this escape to the age of his youth becomes salvation from a sad reality, where nobody needs his drawings anymore, his son speaks a different language, and his wife despises him. Even though this return to the past is just an illusion, it is there that he finds a new path to a happy future.
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09:30. Drama. USA 2019, 144 min. Directed by Edward Norton. Starring: Edward Norton, Bruce Willis, Willem Dafoe, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale, Gugu Mbatha-Raw. In English with Russian subtitles. Edward Norton’s second film as a director and a screen adaptation of Jonathan Lethem’s novel. Lionel Essrog, who suffers from Tourette’s syndrome, is blindly devoted to his guardian, Frank Minna, who dragged him out of an orphanage and set him up with a job as a private detective. When Frank is mysteriously murdered, Lionel takes on the case. Armed only with a few hints and his unfailing logic, full of words, sounds, and images, he follows the threads and uncovers secrets on which the fate of the whole city depends.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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21:20. Biography, Drama, History. USA 2017, 107 min. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon. Starring: Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Michael Shannon, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tuppence Middleton. In English with Russian subtitles. America, the late 19th century. The two greatest minds of the day, Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse, are fighting a vicious battle for the right to light the country. Edison, an outstanding entrepreneur and inventor, is ready to do anything to win. But the front lines of the current war see the arrival of a new figure: the brilliant Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla, who has his own bones to pick with Edison.
Pioner Cinema on Kutuzovsky |
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11:00. Comedy, Drama, War. USA 1940, 125 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie. In English and Esperanto with Russian subtitles. After dedicated service in the Great War, a Jewish barber spends years in an army hospital recovering from his wounds, unaware of the simultaneous rise of fascist dictator Adenoid Hynkel and his anti-Semitic policies. When the barber, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Hynkel, returns to his quiet neighborhood, he is stunned by the brutal changes and recklessly joins a beautiful girl and her neighbors in rebelling.
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17:00, 21:30. Comedy, Drama. USA 1921, 68 min. Directed by Charles Chaplin. Starring: Charles Chaplin, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan. Chaplin’s feature-length directing debut. The Tramp finds an abandoned baby in a garbage can in the slums. At first, he tries to give him away to other people, but nothing comes of his attempts, and he decides to keep the child. Five years later, the Kid and the Tramp become a real family. They try to survive together in the cruel world and even make a little bit of money. One day, the Kid gets sick, and the social services want to separate him from the Tramp upon finding out that he’s an orphan. However, the Tramp doesn’t give up, and in the end, they both find happiness and a real roof over their heads.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Cumberbatch |
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15:00. 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.
Karo Sky 17 |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Madama Butterfly |
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15:00. Opera by Giacomo Puccini. USA 2019, 191 min (with two intermissions). Directed by Anthony Minghella. Cast: Pier Giorgio Morandi, Christine Goerke, Bruce Sledge. In Italian with Russian subtitles. Hui He stars as Cio-Cio-San, the devoted geisha who gives everything for the American naval officer Pinkerton, sung by Andrea Carè. Elizabeth DeShong is her devoted companion Suzuki, and Plácido Domingo adds another role to his remarkable repertoire, singing Sharpless for the first time. Pier Giorgio Morandi conducts Anthony Minghella’s beautiful, atmospheric production.
Cinema Park Kaluzhskiy |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Magic Flute |
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15:00. USA 2006, 115 min. Directed by Gary Halvorson. Starring: Matthew Polenzani, Ying Huang, René Pape. In English. Prince Tamino and Papageno are sent by the Queen of Night to save her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the evil lord Sarastro. Adults and children alike were enchanted by the whimsical humor and breathtaking puppetry of Julie Taymor’s hit production, presented in a shortened English-language version. Under the baton of Maestro James Levine, a winning ensemble cast – including Nathan Gunn, Ying Huang, Matthew Polenzani, Erika Miklosa, and René Pape – brings fresh life to Mozart's timeless fairy tale.
Formula Kino Lubyanka |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Nutcracker |
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17:30. Ballet in two acts to music by Pyotr Tchaikovsky. 135 min (with one intermission). Libretto by Yuri Grigorovich. Choreographer: Yuri Grigorovich. One of the peaks of Tchaikovsky’s work and the quintessence of his style, The Nutcracker explicitly shows the composer’s approach to the genre. Mostly thanks to Tchaikovsky and Petipa ballet acquired single dramaturgy like symphony music, based on the contrast and interaction of the main themes and images. In over 120 years The Nutcracker has been staged in many great theatres and by many great choreographers. “The brilliant symphony of childhood” (Boris Asaev), The Nutcracker is still one of the most beautiful music fairy tales about good overpowering evil.
Fakel |
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: The Winter's Tale |
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18:00. UK 2015, 166 min (with one intermission). Directed by Rob Ashford. Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench, Miranda Raison. In English with Russian subtitles. A Kenneth Branagh Theatre Company production. Shakespeareʼs timeless tragicomedy of obsession and redemption is reimagined in a new production co-directed by Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh, following their triumphant staging of Macbeth in Manchester and Manhattan. Judi Dench will play Paulina, Kenneth Branagh will play Leontes.
Cinema Park Metropolis |
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