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13:35. Drama, Thriller. USA, UK 1999, 169 min. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Starring: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Rade Serbedzija, Leelee Sobieski, Todd Field. In English with Russian subtitles. Bill and Alice Harford are an ideal married couple, living a calm and unperturbed life that lacks for nothing. But one night, the wife admits to her husband that she feels unsatisfied. Addled with jealously, Bill sets off on a journey through the city at night, full of mystery, seduction and forbidden fantasies where the line between dream and reality becomes more and more blurred—until it disappears entirely. The great Stanley Kubrick’s last masterpiece, a provocative study of the depths of the human psyche. Screenings will be preceded by a new 8-minute documentary film, “Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and ‘Eyes Wide Shut.’”
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16:40. 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.
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| On a Magical Night (Chambre 212) |
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12:20. Comedy. France, Belgium, Luxembourg 2019, 86 min. Directed by Christophe Honoré. Starring: Chiara Mastroianni, Benjamin Biolay, Vincent Lacoste, Carole Bouquet, Camille Cottin. In French with Russian subtitles. Maria, a university teacher in Paris, loves young men and no-strings-attached sex. She seduces her students and swaps one lover for another until her husband Richard finds out about this hobby. After a family argument, Maria rents a room in a hotel across from their apartment in order to think about what to do next. And while she recalls the story of her and Richard’s love, an unexpected visitor comes to her—followed by another, and yet another. A charming, provocative, and very French comedy about the peculiarities of love and memory.
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23:55. Action, Thriller, Drama. UK, USA 2019, 99 min. Directed by Zackary Adler. Starring: Gary Oldman, Olga Kurylenko, Amit Shah, Alicia Agneson, Greg Orvis, Craig Conway. In English with Russian subtitles. A powerful crime boss, Mannings, has been arrested, but there’s only one witness available to give a statement: a regular guy named Nick. He hires a mysterious female motorcycle courier to deliver a bomb with poison gas that will kill Nick. After accidentally finding out the truth about her assignment, she saves her victim from certain death. Now the unexpected duo has to challenge a whole army of hired killers. Will they survive the night?
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11:25. 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.
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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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| The Wild Goose Lake (Nan Fang Che Zhan De Ju Hui) |
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09:10. Drama, Crime. China, France 2019, 111 min. Directed by Yi’nan Diao. Starring: Ge Hu, Lun-Mei Kwei, Fan Liao, Regina Wan, Dao Qi, Jue Huang. In Chinese with Russian subtitles. Zenong Zhou is a petty criminal who steals motorbikes. One day, he accidentally kills a policeman and becomes public enemy number 1. When he tries to run away, he crosses paths with another outcast, a prostitute named Aiai Liu. Now Zhou must make a difficult choice between this beautiful stranger, his freedom, and possibly his life. But Aiai Liu holds a secret that he can’t even imagine—and which will change his destiny forever.
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| Theatre HD Live in Cinema: Frankenstein: Cumberbatch |
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19:30. 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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