Oscar nominees are announced © Lincolnblues / Flickr Today, January 15, the American Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences announced a list of nominees for the 87th season of the Oscar. The largest number of nominations - nine - received “Birdman” (Birdman) Alejandro Gonzalez injarita and “Grand Budapest Hotel” (The Grand Budapest Hotel) Wes Anderson.

Charlie Hebdo saved record circulations © Thierry David / SuD Owest newspaper saleswoman with the announcement "We no longer have Charlie Hebdo." Bordeaux, January 14 The French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, who was on the verge of bankruptcy, during an attack on the editorial office of which 12 people were killed on January 7, earned about 10 million euros, selling 5 million copies of his new issue.

One of the strictly withstanding the rules of the Festival “Return” , held in Moscow for the 18th time under the unchanged leadership of the violinist of Roman Mintz and Goboist Dmitry Bulgakov, can not be repeated, you cannot play music that was played in the programs of previous years. You always need something new. It would seem that such a simple rule, everyone would like to take it into service. And how powerfully it works, spurks, holds in good shape.

It seems that there is some general agreement regarding the shares of Peter Pavlensky . “Everything is clear here,” says Igor Gulin. “An example of the intelligibility and conciseness of political art,” says Dmitry Volchek. “We all feel like that - as if our eggs are nailed with a carnation to Red Square,” summarizes Elena Kostylev. Immediately, however, there is a desire to ask a simple question: who are these “we”? Is such a generalization true to the entire population of the country?

Leviathan is nominated for Oscar © Sony Pictures Classics The film "Leviathan" of the Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev is included in the nominee for the Awards of the American Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences "Oscar" in the category "Best Film in a Foreign Language". It is reported by RIA Novosti . The Oscar award ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on February 22. The last Russian film, nominated for Oscar, was in 2007 the picture of Nikita Mikhalkov “12”.

The “Leviathan” drain into the torrents, which occurred simultaneously with the presentation of the “Golden Globe” film, shot an unspoken taboo on a pre -premiere discussion of the film by Russian criticism and sympathetic spectators (discussion, impossible without a spoiler, which actually destroys the entire dramatic mechanism of the picture). The nature of this polemic once again proves the importance of Leviathan as a cultural, and not just a political phenomenon.

Recently, several books were published in Russia on one of the most relevant and painfully sharp topics of modernity - history and mythology. Their spectrum is very wide: from a deeply funded “dictionary of historical concepts” to the Folk History genre “unexceptable history of the United States” that was written in the widespread spread.

The Ministry of Culture is going to ban cinema, "defaming national culture" The Ministry of Culture is preparing restrictions on the issuance of rental certificates for films, which "contain information that defamed national culture, which pose a threat to national unity and undermine the foundations of the constitutional system." The fact that a government decree was prepared, “in which new requirements for films for receiving a rental certificate have been formulated,” told Interfax in the

The Beat Film Festival program is announced on 2morrow/Tomorrow © Final Cut / Beat Film Festival Frame from the movie "Life Sacred" The program of the Film Festival Film Festival documentary festival at the 2morrow/Tomorrow festival, which will be held at the Moscow Museum and the Documentary Cinema Center on January 20-25, five films about the interaction of artists and intellectuals with a social and political context were included.

Dmitry Volkostrelov works a lot. At different sites. Or it seems so. The time has come to go to someone else, based on its previous practice, territory. Or-I heard something about this-a “Russian romance” (for some reason in a pretentious one for a minimalist) on the stage of the theater of nations was a decisive response to the ordered work “according to Russian classics”. In this case, the order in this case is deprived of evaluative connotations.

Leviathan was banned in the Murmansk region © "Non-Stop Production" Frame from the movie "Leviathan" The governor of the Murmansk region Marina Kovtun banned the rental of the film by Andrei Zvyagintsev “Leviathan” in the region. “The decision to ban the rental of the film was made by Marina Vasilievna. The governor remained unhappy, as the residents of the north are shown in the film, ”a source in the regional government told Flashnord .

Evgeny Savostyanov leaves the structures of the Ministry of Culture The head of the Coordinating Council for Intellectual Property Protection, Yevgeny Savostyanov, decided to leave the collegium and the Public Council of the Ministry of Culture due to disagreement with the policy of the ministry. He announced this in a letter to the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Interfax reports.

Exhibition Marco Fedole Dee Katrano "Portrait of Jenny" © Marco Fedele di Catrano "Untitled", frame from video The personal exhibition of the Italo-Swiss artist Marco Di Katrano "Portrait of Jenny" takes place in the TsTi "Factory" in Moscow.