Metaphorical chronicle of a midlife crisis With the books of the most important contemporary Irish writer, John Banville, the Russian publishing houses “Thornton and Sugden” and EKSMO seem to be playing drunkard: to Sugden’s “Clues” - “Athena” EKSMO, these responded with “The Untouchables” - and they, please, are posting “Eclipse”, the latest novel from 2000.

Collections for this brand are made by Alberto Biani. The result is comfortable and practical clothing for every day, which

Peter Farrelly, Bobby Farrelly, USA, 2003 Starring Eva Mendes, Greg Kinnear, Matt Damon, Cher (dubbed) Two 32-year-old conjoined twins have spent their entire lives frying fast-food burgers at speed, remaining the main attraction in their remote community in the far north of America. The first twin (Kinnear) plays Truman Capote in a one-man show for local residents in the evenings, while the second (Demon) breathes into a paper bag: public speaking causes him to have a panic attack.

Personal exhibitions Tatyana Antoshina, Oksana Dubrovskaya, Vera and Lena Samorodov, Ekaterina Veshtak, Anna Taguchi, Vladimir Nasedkin. April 26 – May 11

Baek Woon Hak, South Korea, 2003 Starring Kim Seok Hoon, Park Sang Min (dubbed) “Die Hard” in Korean Sad policeman Jay, working in the subway, vowed to catch a terrorist named T, who once dutifully shot his lover. And when T hijacks the train carrying the mayor of Seoul, the thief Kay, in love In Jay, as well as hundreds of other civilians, the policeman finally has a good chance of fulfilling his oath. For the first half hour you’re still wondering whether it’s “Speed” or Besson’s “Subway”.

Jean-Pierre Jeunet, France-Germany, 2001 Starring Audrey Tautou, Rufus (dubbed) A film about a young eccentric who set in motion the mechanisms of other people's happiness and played hide and seek with her own. Montmartre, where she lives, is a paradise straight out of a 1950s Hollywood movie, with attics, Renoir paintings, concierges and café regulars, the style that defined fashion (at least in shoes and accessories) in 2001.

Theater Square, Wed May 5, 17.00; Triumfalnaya Square, Sun 9 May, 11.00 Moscow City Automobile Club, Sat 8, Sun 9 May, 12.00

Alexander Maslenitsyn "Cairo". until May 17

OPEN AIR COMPETITIONS You can always sit your child in front of the TV and turn on the “Sports” channel - the child will be happy. But it's spring. Holidays. There are motorcycle races in Cherkizovo, a regatta in Ostankino, a bike trial on Teatralnaya, and motorized paragliders fly outside the city.

Capercaillie nest Anatoly Kireev. 19.00

Tarasov's mansion on Spiridonovka, which belongs to the Institute of Asia and Africa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and to the Palibins' house, where one of the branches of the Institute of Restoration is located. It became known that there is a night skating rink in the CSKA Ice Palace. It is open from 23.00 to 5 am. Entrance fee for the whole night is 200 rubles, skate rental is 100 rubles.

Amateur performances performed by rock musicians The press release promises “concerts with elements of an enterprise” and “concerts where musical compositions are interconnected by staged plots.” The organizer of “Music in a New Format” Mikhail Gelman explains: “Just imagine, the banal Leonid Fedorov stands and sings.

“Russian light painting. Touches to history" Collections of the MDF, the Historical Museum, the Kremlin, the Institute of the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences and others. May 15-30 “Family portrait of the 19th century” Collections of MDF, Historical Museum, A.S. Pushkin Museum. May 15-30 Berenice Abbott “New York. 1935-1939". Museums of the city of New York. May 18 – June 18

A Band Apart Voice-over sounds of the “new Quentin Tarantino film”, volume two. Due to the changed locations (the action takes place on the Mexican border), the wind blew in the direction of the spaghettiwestern: as many as three compositions came from the pen of Ennio Morricone, including the theme from “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” - but not at all the one that comes to mind first. Plus Johnny Cash, Charlie Feathers and Louis Bacalov.

Richard Donner, USA, 2003 Starring Paul Walker, Frances O'Connor, David Thewlis, Anna Friel (dubbed) A group of archeology students excavating a French castle finds a message from their own professor: he disappeared a couple of days earlier, but the message definitely dates back to the 14th century. It soon turns out that the professor was thrown into the Middle Ages by some rather nefarious corporation that discovered a hole in time, and the young people set off to save their leader.