Pedro Almodovar, Spain, 2004 Starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Fele Martinez, Daniel Jimenez Cacho, Javier Camara (dubbed) Madrid, 1980. The successful young director Enrique Godet receives a surprise visit from Ignacio, who was his intimate friend at the Catholic boys' school and was separated from Enrique in the most heartbreaking way. Now Ignacio is trying to make his way as an actor and invites Enrique to look at his story, based on the story of their long-time boyish love, for film adaptation.

The secret Maslenitsa - each time in a new place - is carried out by Moscow restorers from the Rozhdestvenka association. This year she was near Sergiev Posad. The program includes storming a snow fortress, masquerade and dancing. Eyewitnesses talk about mass riots and almost orgies © V. Lupovskaya

Kim Ki-duk, South Korea, 2004 Starring Lee Seung-yeon, Ye Hee (voiceover) A strange young man moves into houses whose owners are away on vacation.

At the end of March, a four-part film “Brezhnev” with an unrecognizable Sergei Shakurov in the title role will be released on Channel One. St. Petersburg director Sergei Snezhkin (“Regional Emergency”) and playwright Valentin Chernykh (“Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” “Ours”) did not make a straightforward biography, but turned the last years of the life of the anecdotal tyrant almost into an elegiac dream—sublime in its old man’s slowness and bright in its sadness.

These are the kind of Italian bags that are quite famous in their homeland - pot-bellied, cheerful and perky. The most famous ones are in the shape of a cube. The cubes depict taxi checkers, scarlet Chinese dragons or ducks - just like on the doors of lockers in kindergartens. The most important thing is not to braid your hair or ponytail when you leave the house with such a bag, otherwise your friends will start to worry about you.

A middle-aged married lawyer (Gere), returning from work by train, notices a well-lit beauty (Lopez) in the window of a warehouse. He goes to get acquainted and ends up in a class where a drinking Jewish lady teaches ballroom dancing. This remake of the 1996 Japanese dance comedy magically preserves exactly what Hollywood was supposed to burn out with a hot iron - a strange, awkward verisimilitude of the whole thing. Cinema Center Thu April 7

Robert Zemeckis, USA, 2004 Animated A train is rushing across America, which during Christmas night must collect a dozen children from cities and villages and deliver them to the North Pole to visit Santa. An extremely exciting film by Zemeckis based on the 1985 book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg (author of Jumanji). Nescafé IMAX Tue 29, Wed 30 March, Fri 1 – Sun 3, Tue 5, Thu 7 – Sat 9 April

holidays party wallpaper* On the Friday before last, at the beginning of the first night, we tried for about 40 minutes to get out of the building of the Academy of Sciences, but we could not - there was an unimaginable line at the cloakroom.

Orange DJs Lantern, Polyakov, Vadim Zhukov, Diesel. Trance. 23.00-6.00 B2 DJs Street, Ace. House. 0.30 and until the last Bunker DJs Boriscoff, Roman. Disco house. 1.00 and until the last Vermeil DJ Layla. Disco, Latin, rock and roll. 23.00-6.00 Jamclub Realmen; DJs Tourist, Holod, Mart, AS, Hitretz, Shandor. Hard house. 22.00-6.00 Cooker House “Atomic Boogie Nights”: DJs Zhenya Lurie, Commandante Sorinella, Drumface, Noise. Funk, hip-hop. 23.00-6.00

292 97 31, Glinishchevsky lane, 3 3: Pushkinskaya, Mon-Thu, Sun 12.00-0.00, Fri-Sat 12.00-5.00 The menu of this cafe is replete with Lenten offerings for no particular reason, but nevertheless there is also a separate Lenten list. It contains several new inventions. Potato pancakes (75 rubles) replaced the usual sour cream with soy and didn’t get any worse from it. Vegetable salads (135 rubles and 140 rubles) contain real tomatoes (juicy, red and not watery).

Zebra “A-studio”, “Prime Minister”, Anastasia Stotskaya, “Wild Berries”. 21.00 OGI project RuShaBo. The trio unites singer Polina Runovskaya (“Zga”, “Ru-2”) and soloists of the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra Vladimir Shostak (double bass) and Vadim Bondarenko (clarinet, piano). 22.00 R-club “Asteroid”, Kutuzoff, Others. 19.00 Tinkoff Nicola Conte (Italy). 21.00 Schwein “Feast of Flora”. 22.00 Bilingua "Britain". 22.00

Shanti Vrash and Isai. Ethnodub. 21.00 Goldenmask.Club “Wa-Ta-Ga” (Karelia). The club at the Golden Mask theater festival will operate until its closing on April 9 - there is a high probability of meeting nominees, jury members and sympathizers here. 22.00

German suitcases. Leonardo DiCaprio walked through the airport with something similar in the movie Catch Me If You Can. Suitcases, as well as diplomats (what a pleasant word is “diplomat”, right?) and beauty cases are made either from a material called polycarbonate (which is cheaper) or from aircraft aluminum (then the price can reach up to €800). To be honest, I really want to exchange all my existing suitcases for Rimowa luggage.

229 55 90, 229 94 11, Tverskoy Blvd., 26a: Pushkinskaya, 24 hours A welcoming atmosphere for those who love the addresses “sir”, “madam” and “madam”. A separate Lenten sentence is composed prudently, but you don’t immediately understand the meaning of the pompous names in Russian of the 19th century. Meanwhile, it is here that the ideal balance between green salads and vegetable soups has been achieved. For proof, try a salad with green asparagus and bean sprouts and fill up with pumpkin soup.

Taylor Hackford, USA, 2004 Starring Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Clifton Powell (dubbed) A solid film biography of Ray Charles, begun during his lifetime and completed right before the musician’s death. No postmodernist twists: a thorough and honest story about the fate of a good, albeit difficult, person. Under the Dome Fri 1, Sun 3 – Wed 6, Fri 8 – Sun 10 April