Julia Idlis Benedek Fligof (photo by N. Chetverikova) This text is actually not about the film “Milky Way”, shown in the competition of the First Moscow International Festival of Author's Cinema “Tomorrow”. This text is so, tease. Because, being Muscovites and other Russians who are captured by the performance of distributors about rolling films and organizations to combat video piracy - about video piracy, you will most likely never see this film.

Julia Idlis On the first day of competitive impressions at the jury press conference, his chairman Fred Skepsy uttered a prophecy that completely came true. He said: “Festival awards are often given not for what they should be given. Prizes for the best role are awarded to actors who play famous people or disabled people and psychopaths, because in these cases it is easy to evaluate the acting. ” The distribution of prizes on the XXIX MMKF justified the skepticism of the Australian director.

Julia Idlis The cult French director Claude Lelush at the XXIX Cinema Film Festival is dedicated, as well as the opening ceremony, by Mikhail Kalatozov’s film “Cranes fly”. Fifty years ago, he came to Moscow as an assistant operator in this picture, which he proudly reported at a press conference. However, the current successes of Lelsh have little relation to flying cranes. This time he came to represent his “railway romance”, which closes the XXIX MMKF.

Julia Idlis Giuseppe Tornator (photo by N. Chetverikova) At the XXIX MMKF showed the last film of the competition - “Stranger” by Giuseppe Tornator Last year, at the Moscow International Film Festival, filmmakers and Kilumluba had high hopes for Bertrand Blier's painting "How much you are standing." These hopes did not materialize, but the film pleased ordinary mortal spectators and the editorial office of the Russian Vogue, which awarded him a prize for the best style decision.

Julia Idlis Otman Karim is a young Swedish director from Uganda. In his homeland, he is a well -known screenwriter, TV presenter, director of documentary and feature cinema. Last year, his first game picture “About Sarah” - a subtle and charming story of growing up and searching for love - received the main prize of the Moscow International Film Festival. This year, Karim became part of the jury of the main competition.

Julia Idlis The opening ceremony of the XXIX MMKF, held on June 21 at the Pushkinsky cinema, was dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Mikhail Kalatozov’s film “Cranes fly”. The famous black and white shots were played on the screen-the kiss of Samoilova and Batalov in the wedding veil, the Batalov’s mileage on the stairs, the crane wedge in the sky, crying Samoilov at the end; On the stage they sang "It seems to me that the soldiers ...".

Julia Idlis On June 7, Quentin Tarantino, the first part of the Graindhaus project, conceived and implemented by Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez, is released on the screens. Two films made in the aesthetics of horror and “slasers” of the 1970s, with the same actors who play victims in “proof of death”, and in the “planet of fear”-killers, you need to watch together. So far, the Moscow public introduced Tarantino; What will be there with Rodriguez, it remains only to guess.

Julia Idlis As you know, Soviet cards hardly corresponded to geographical and topographic reality so that the spies living in the territory of the USSR could not suddenly find something improper. It is only a trouble that in the absence of any other cards, the citizens of the USSR, like spies, used the Soviet ones.

Julia Idlis This story begins with a prologue. The prologue consists in the fact that a few months ago, when Moscow suddenly introduced additional rules for the import of Georgian products, then for the import of the Georgians themselves, and then for the import of any foreign workers, I sat in my favorite restaurant, which, thank God, does not boast of any ethnic cuisine.

Julia Idlis Writing about the TV is now fashionable. First of all, because no one is watching him. Between the observer and the observed object there was a distance necessary to understand this object: no one knows what TV is and why it shows what he shows. It opens up a huge scope for scientific and journalistic assumptions: the TV has become for us the same unknown object of study as a fragment of a Martian spacecraft.

Julia Idlis Once in the Apoprifa, the Internet guru Sergey Kuznetsov was signed by the Titr “Writer”. After that, his business partners, employees and even concierges in the office learned that they were in the immediate vicinity of the literary figure, and terribly caught fire.

Julia Idlis Yesterday, with a sense of nostalgia, I revised the “Lord of the Rings. Two towers ”in a pirate translation and poor quality. If in the near future I manage to dig up the first Harry Potter somewhere, I will reconsider it. After all, it is necessary to keep faith in good cinema, in wide rental, and also that one thing happens in another. A good movie, that is, at a wide box office, and wide rental - in a good movie.

Julia Idlis “Opening this book, you experience a strange feeling” - I want to write about every second book acquired at the international intellectual literature fairy -literature. But about the first volume of Mikhail Kozyrev’s trilogy “My Rock-N-Roll” (publishing house “Livebook Gayati” ) I especially want to write like that.

Julia Idlis The day before the opening of the Non/Fiction intellectual literature fair, which was held in the central house of the artist from November 29 to December 3, I was present during the conversation in which the head of the Soup Blogs Anton Nosik, the creator of Livejournal.com Brad Fitzpatrika, what this is non/fiction.

Julia Idlis In one beautiful novel from the life of Robin Hood, the main character, complaining about the wild customs of the people around him, says with reproach: "Still, an enlightened XIII century in the yard is not any barbarism." For him, this is an argument, so as not to eat with hands and do not burn the ancient manuscripts written by pagans.