Summer hits guide

The main films of the year, according to tradition, go to a large screen in the summer season, the beginning of which the distributors consider May. The New Times is just as traditionally publishes its movie review

Traditional disclaimer: the author has his own view of what is called a “hit” and this is not necessarily identical to what will be in mass demand. Since Russian rental is unpredictable, the release dates of the films must be clarified, and - more than once. It is bad that our rental is not just unpredictable, but, paraphrasing Woland, suddenly unpredictable. What once again confirmed the story with the film “Number 44” (see NT No. 13 dated April 20, 2015 ), which was withdrawn a rental certificate the day before the exit.

May 14

"Mad Max: Road Road",

Director George Miller,

Australia-Ssha

Day a day with access to Russian rental, the film will be officially presented at the Cannes Film Festival. The 1979 Mad Max, which had two continuations, is a cult film for the owners of the first video recorders in the USSR. This is an action movie about the world of the future, where everything gradually begins to fall apart. Ex-policeman avenges for the death of loved ones to the Besses, who rule the roads. Unusual: the remake of a cult film 36 years after his release was created by the same director that the original did, Australian George Miller. This seems to be the first such case in the movie history. Once the Mad Max turned Mel Gibson into a superstar. Now instead of him in the main role of Tom Hardy. Pares with him - Charlize Theron, although the original crazy max did not have a couple.

May 21

"Red Army",

Director Gabe Polski,

USA-Russia

A year after the premiere at the last year's Cannes festival, the documentary thriller should finally go out about the confrontation between the hockey teams of Canada and the USSR, which was not only sports, but also ideological. If you forget about the confrontation, this is the drama about the great team of CSKA, the name of which in America was translated as Red Army, and the greatest hockey five of the 1980s: Krutov-Makarov-Larionov-Fetisov-Kasatons. Fetisov is almost the main narrator and the hero of the film, very, by the way, respectful and friendly in relation to the USSR and his outstanding hockey.

June 4

"Under the electric clouds",

Director Alexei German Jr.

Russia-Polsha-Ukraine

It is clear that any films raised by the German family must watch. “Under the electric clouds”-a philosophical anti-utopia, which develops in the 2017th close to us, when the world is threatened by the universal war-in the current situation this is not such a fantastic forecast. The heroes of the film are marginals. At the recent Berlin Film Festival, which is considered No. 2 in Europe after Cannes, the film received a “silver bear” for outstanding artistic achievements.

June 18

"Remove from friends",

Director Levan Gabriadze,

USA

The filler of the film, stated, broke records for viewing on Twitter. The bottom line is that this is a pseudo -order horror of a new generation. Its action develops on the screens of monitors - in computers of several characters that are included in Skype and became its captives. All of them, as it turns out, are guilty of the death of their girlfriend. The film continues the traditions of “witch from Blair” and “paranormal phenomena”. The main producer of the film is Timur Bekmambetov. True, in America, where he had just appeared, the film, despite the promotion on the network, has not yet become a rental leader.

June 25

"Inborn vice",

Director Paul Thomas Anderson,

The film based on the cult novel Thomas Pincon (he, in fact, has all the cult novels), made by the famous director, the author of “Nights in the Bugy style”, “Magnolia” and “Oil”. The main character - a private detective - begins to look for an ex -friend, who suddenly disappeared along with a new rich fan, on his own initiative. Pinchon is a pinchon. And Anderson is Anderson. Whatever the film, the author of these lines will be among its first spectators.

"The dove sat on a branch, thinking about life",

Director Roy Andersson,

Sweden-Germania-Norwegia-France

One of the main art khits of the year is the owner of the Golden Leo of last year's Venetian Film Festival. The Swede Roy Andersson, who made his first famous films in the late 1960s-mid-1970s, acquired in the world the glory of the Scandinavian Alexei German Sr., that is, the director who takes a long time, painfully and cannot complete the next picture. Now, however, he has been filming the film every seven years. “Songs from the second floor” were made in 2000, “You, living” in 2007, “pigeon” in 2014. Another difference between Andersson and Herman is that he is a finished surrealist, with an incredible sense of humor. The main thing that moves Andersson to surrealism and humor is human nature: “songs”, “you” and “pigeon” - a trilogy about what lies in the depths of human essence.

July 2

"Terminator: Genesis",

Director Alan Taylor,

To increase cash fees, many superchites are confined to America in America to a long holiday weekend of Independence Day on July 4, guaranteeing super -scenes. This time, a special bet is on the next “Terminator”, in which the chief terminator of all time - Schwarzenegger - is computer -rejuvenated. But he, apparently, is not the main one here. But as for the main characters, the action seems to be very confused: who came from the past, some of the future, who fights for people, who - for rational, but malicious, seized power in the future of cars? An autopsy will show.

"Away from the distraught crowd",

Director Thomas Winterberg,

USA - Great Britain

The fate of the co-authors of the once famous Danish manifesto “Dogma-95”, who sought to return the cinema to the truth, develop in different ways. The chief ideologist of the manifesto Lars von Trier is still burdened with the idea of ​​pursuing a slap in the face of social taste-his last film was a four-hour provocative “Nymphomaniac”, in which there are scenes, according to formal signs related to porn. The closest ally of Trier Thomas Winterberg makes a career more conventional director, regularly moving from Denmark to English -speaking countries. After the Non -Conformist Danish “hunting” of 2012 (the film that a worthy person can be easily stipulated - the whole society, including former friends, is viciously rebelled against him), he made a beautiful adaptation of the novel by the English classic Thomas Hardy. “Far from the distraught crowd” is the early Roman Hardy, in which the emancipated woman of the Victorian era is tormented by the need to make a choice between three worthy, but completely different in character, political views and social status men. The woman is played by one of the best young actresses of our time - Carey Malligan.

July 30

"Outside"

Director Tarsem Singh,

Antiopia - films about the gloomy future of mankind - are more and more popular in Hollywood, which obviously speaks of the increasing fears of modern society. This time we are talking about that it will soon become possible to gain immortality: the soul and consciousness are simply transplanted from your old sick body to young and healthy. The operation is not only expensive, but also illegal. Nevertheless, a billionaire, who depicts Ben Kingsley, is being decided on her. He gains the new body of Ryan Reynolds. But hardly anyone will be surprised if we say that everything will go wrong as planned. Behind the new body, its train inevitably stretches. The problems of this body (in the film “Outside” they are deadly), whether it wants whether its new owner wants it, must be allowed. Actually, the great Michelangelo Antonioni spoke of something similar in the film “Profession: Reporter”: Antonioni, however, had no fantasy-just a person who tried to escape from himself, decided to pass himself off with all the ensuing consequences: he was forced to escape from everyone from all-including unknown people, but dangerous. It is worth noting that the director of “outside of himself” Tarsmam Singh removed in 2000 a aesthetic thriller “cage”, plunging into a talentedly perverted subconscious of a dangerous maniac.

August 6

"The mission is impossible: the tribe of the outcasts",

Director Christopher McCorry,

The movie series “The Mission is impossible”, based on the motives of the same fashion television series of the late 1960s-early 1970s, was started by Tom Cruz almost twenty years ago as an alternative to an old-fashioned bondian. Bond was then portrayed by the father, but Cruise was young. Now Cruz has reached the age of the papik, but Bondiana was sharply revolutionized, having left the militants from the parody as much as possible and approaching reality. Nevertheless, all the series of "missions" is interesting to review. The fourth of them, the “protocol phantom” of 2011, reflected the new relations between Russia and the United States, called rebooting. The secret American agent depicts Cruz at first opposed, but then he began to help in the fight against the world evil a harsh Russian hebist with unquestioning assistants in leather cloaks and the face of Vladimir Mashkov. In the new series, Russia is not relevant. But the “mission” is finally approaching the old Bondian, which was once opposed. After all, the secret special team, under the guidance of a character in Cruise, fights with a supranational syndicate (a variant of the Bond spectrum), which seeks to establish a new world order.

August 13th

"Agents A. N. K. L.",

Director Guy Richie,

The Russians, surprisingly, are not bad (as if there is no new cold war), they act in the film by the ex -husband of Madonna Guy Richie, who was long considered the British Tarantino. He made a comedic militant from the time of the First Cold War - already a parody, a film directly correlated with the then Bondiana. In the early 1960s, the CIA and the KGB join the efforts almost in the KGPont Charlie district (the checkpoint between the western and eastern sides of Berlin after the construction of the wall) to combat the secret organization of the former Nazis who strive to control nuclear weapons. Both sides represent the best agents. CIA - Napoleon Solo (what is it here), KGB - Ilya Kuryakin (I could not imagine a more ridiculous Russian surname Gai Richie). Surprised by Russian distributors. They actually often surprise, inventing completely awkward names for foreign tapes. But in this case, ingenuity was required. Indeed, in the original the film is called The Man from Uncle, what does "agents A.N.K.L." have to do with it? It would be possible to fantasize.

August 20

"Everything as you want"

Director Terry Jones,

United Kingdom

And for a snack - a comedic anti -utopia from masters. For the sake of an experiment, aliens are endowing a loser teacher with the ability to fulfill any desires. For example, he wants to understand that the dog’s head - the dog begins to speak in a human voice. The unconditional charm of the film (no matter how it ends up) is in the connection of representatives of different comedian-parody schools. The film was shot by the director Terry Jones, the leader of the famous British comedian, Monty Pyton. One of the roles was performed by the other great representative of this group - American director Terry Gilliam. The protagonist is played by Simon Pegg, the face of another English comic team (in particular, the new television andodter-vatson, as well as the “hobbit” Martin Freeman), who created such hits as “Zombies named Sean”, “Type of Cool Lygovy” and “Armageddets”, is also included. By the way, Pegg also plays in the “mission”, which is “impossible”. Finally, it was this film that became one of the last for the classic of the genre Robin Williams. Watch, of course, is worth it.

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