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Poster
Timur Kvitelashvili (Georgia). One of the best and certainly the most famous fusion guitarist in Georgia. Kvitelashvili is the only guitarist from the former USSR included in the list of musicians featured on the “Best Guitarists in the World” compilation, which is being released by Liquid Records this summer. Several years ago, the legendary Scott Henderson invited him to teach a master class at the Musician's Institute in Los Angeles. A month ago, Kvitelashvili performed at the most famous jazz club in the world - New York's Birdland. In Moscow, Kvitelashvili will play in the JVL club, 21.00.
Billy`s Band (St. Petersburg). The musicians themselves call the group a funeral Dixieland with always a happy ending. Couldn't have said it better. July 18 and 19 at the club “At the Nikitsky Gate” (in the courtyard of the theater) , 20.00.
DJ Yazykov and Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone). “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00.
MOVIE
"Return" (Spain, 2006). Directed by Pedro Almodóvar. Starring Penelope Cruz, Carmen Maura, Lola Duenas, Blanco Portillo, Pilar Castro. A daughter, mother and grandmother, who moved from the province of La Mancha to Madrid, beautiful Spanish women, bright representatives of three generations of a passionate Castilian family, seek their destiny to the sounds of a burning Latin tango and learn to despise death. “Horizon” 9.30, 16.40, 23.50, “Karo-Film” 14.50, 19.15, 23.40, “Kinomir” 14.35, 19.30, 0.15, “Kinocentr” 13.30, 19.20, 21.35, “October” 14.45, 19 .15, 23.45, “Five stars » 12.35, 16.55, 21.25, “Five Stars on Novokuznetskaya” 16.15, 18.45, 21.15, 23.45, “Roland” 12.00, 16.25, 20.50, “Khudozhestvenny” 14.00, 16.30, 19.00.
“How much are you worth?” (France, 2005). Directed by Bertrand Blier. Starring Gerard Depardieu, Monica Bellucci, Bernard Campan, Jean-Pierre Daroussin, Edouard Baer. A downtrodden and already middle-aged man one day walks into a night bar and invites a local beauty prostitute, whom he has been eyeing for a long time, to buy her for a month. The money, he said, he just won in the lottery. Then they decide to extend the contract until the winnings end. “35 MM” 10.30, 19.00, “Horizon” 11.55, 21.50, “Kinotsentr” 17.35, “Five Stars” 14.55, 23.45, “Five Stars on Novokuznetskaya” 16.00, 22.35, “Romanov-Cinema” 13.50, 18.15, 22. 45, " Artistic" 12.00, 21.15.
“It doesn’t hurt me” (Russia, 2006). Directed by Alexey Balabanov. Starring Alexander Yatsenko, Renata Litvinova, Nikita Mikhalkov, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Inga Oboldina-Strelkova, Sergei Makovetsky, Dmitry Meskhiev, Kirill Nabutov, Mark Rudinshtein. A melodrama about a romance between a young man who decided to earn extra money by decorating apartments and the strange mistress of a rich businessman. “Kinotsentr” 10.00, 15.40, “MDM-Kino” 11.00, 17.30, 21.00, “Five Stars on Novokuznetskaya” 11.20.
“The Oath” (China - Hong Kong - Japan - South Korea, 2005). Directed by Chen Kaige. Starring Kong Zhang Dong, Sanada Hiroyuki, Cecilia Cheng, Nicholas Tsi. Fantasy about the legendary times of Chinese history. A young slave, endowed with the gift of “outrunning the wind,” is ordered to save his king from death. But by the will of the evil witch he will be destined to protect the princess and kill the king. “MDM Cinema” 15.00, 21.30, 23.00, 3.00, “Five Stars on Novokuznetskaya” 11.05, 17.20.
“Communication” (Russia, 2006). Directed by Avdotya Smirnova. Starring Anna Mikhalkova, Mikhail Porechenkov, Dmitry Shevchenko, Irina Rozanova, Leonid Yarmolnik, Alexey Popogrebsky. A melodrama about an unexpected romance between two seemingly prosperous, happy, family people, a St. Petersburg man and a Muscovite. “Cinema Center” 11.55, “Titanic Cinema” 14.20, 18.25, 22.30.
EXHIBITIONS
Europe+. An exhibition of works by four famous conceptual artists. The first section of the exhibition is a retrospective of the works of Gerhard Richter (Germany) “Overview” - 27 exhibits representing the artist’s work from the early 1960s to the 1990s. The second section is a photo series by Boris Mikhailov (Ukraine) “Twilight” (1993) - gloomy photographs of the Kharkov bottom. The next section of the exhibition is two installations by Vladimir Tarasov (Lithuania): “Shekinah” (2003) - sacred Jewish books laid out in a dark room, which are leafed through by the wind; and “Kyoto” (2005) - bamboo sticks with water hitting stones placed along the edges of the pool. National Center for Contemporary Art , until July 30.
"Masters of the French Poster". Exhibited are works from the collection of French lithographed posters of the late 19th - early 20th centuries at the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin. The French poster of that time was a full-fledged participant in the artistic process and turned the streets of European cities into huge exhibition halls. The posters show the influence of various trends in the art of their time (the influence of impressionism is noticeable in the technique used by Jules Chéret, neo-Gothic in the works of Eugene Samuel Grasset, one of the pioneers of the Art Nouveau style), and from them you can trace the history of art of an entire era. The museum collection contains works by almost all famous masters who raised the artistic level of illustrated advertising to real art. The exhibition features more than 100 posters by French artists: Jules Chéret, Eugene Grasset, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Pierre Bonnard, Adolphe Villette, Alphonse Mucha, Théophile Steinlen, Jules Grandjuan, Paul Berton, Leonetto Cappiello and many others. Italian courtyard of the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin , until August 20.
OTHER
"Birthday with the readers." Creative evening of Yevgeny Yevtushenko . Yevtushenko will present a new three-volume collection of selected prose and read new poetry. Polytechnic Museum , 19.00.
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