This year, Colta.ru decided to go to the experiment and invited to temporary curators over the section “Photo projects” of young and talented representatives of leading Russian photocurium. We divided the calendar year between six curators and asked them to select the most interesting samples of modern Russian photography for publication.

"Stalker" entered the "Venetian classics" © "Mosfilm" Frame from the movie "Stalker" The special program “Venetian Classics” of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival will show the film by Andrei Tarkovsky “Stalker” (1979), restored at the Mosfilm studio under the leadership of Karen Shakhnazarov. This was reported by TASS with reference to the Directorate of the Festival. Also, this program will show the Soviet-Italian film by Nikita Mikhalkov “Black Eyes” (1987) with Marcello Mastroianni.

Veli & amos: “Wars of styles-2” and other art projects © ANAïS Chatellier Swiss-Slovenian artists Graffiti and Amos (Veli & Amos) will present their film “Wars of Style-2 Wars” and other art projects on July 22 in the Moscow Palace of Culture “Trekhogorka”. From July 28 to August 18, shows of the film and meetings with Veli & Amos in Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will be held.

"Memorial" revealed the names of 40 thousand Stalinist executioners © "Memorial" The Memorial Society issued the disc “personnel composition of employees of the state security bodies of the USSR 1935-1939”, which is the most complete overflow of the NKVD from the times of a large terror. The publication provides information about 90% of the staff of state security agencies, one of the leaders of the project, co -chair of the Moscow Memorial, Jan Rachinsky, told the site “Lessons of History” .

The release of VHS-formatophone ceases © Ramografie.de The Japanese company Funai Electric - the last manufacturer of video recorders for the VHS cassettes - will turn their production by the end of July 2016. It is reported by Interfax . Funai Electric has been producing video recorders for 33 years, recently - in China under the Sanyo brand. In 2015, only 750 thousand were sold, while in the past sales exceeded 15 million devices per year.

Joanna Stingrei not only opened the Leningrad Rock to the world , but was also a noticeable rock singer and TV presenter in post-Soviet Russia. Those who grew up in the 1990s remember her songs composed with Boris Grebenshchikov and Victor Tsoem, and the video clips that the producer of the Red Wave collection herself shot.

A month ago, I wrote for the colts an article “On the side of evil” about people who in one form or another make their life choice in favor of the state, find a common language and common values ​​with it, find themselves in the state and, as a result, turn into features what.

The Moscow City Hall did not agree on a rally against the "Package of Yarova" © Prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow Alexei Mayorov, Head of the Department of Regional Security and Combating Corruption of the city of Moscow Today, July 22, referring to violations in the application, the Moscow authorities refused the organizers of the action against the "package of Yarova" in its holding.

From July 27 to July 31 in the Moscow Horizon, the St. Petersburg Aurora and the Novosibirsk “Victory” the mini-dertrospective Jim Jarmusha will be held (to support Colta.ru, having bought a subscription to the entire program at a discount, you can here ). What do the cult films of the 90s look from the 2010s-and why watch them now? Reason Daria Silver. “In his paintings, he does not try to display life, but there is no place for death in them, there is only a stop, a pause. Painter Syncop.

An analogue of Hulu may appear in Russia © Motionarray.com The five largest Russian media companies are discussing the possibility of creating a joint online platform to broadcast their content. A similar service exists in the USA - the Hulu.com website broadcasts content Fox, ABC, NBC and other television channels. According to Kommersant , the shareholders of the project can be the first channel, Gazprom-Media, VGTRK, National Media Group (NMG) and STS Media.

Last week, the Minister of Culture of the Perm Territory Igor Gladnev suddenly fired the artistic director of the Perm Theater-theater Boris Milgram. No one expected such a turn of events: the Milgram contract did not expire, plans for the next season were painted. The Khudruk himself began preparing the new performance “Caligula” based on the play by Albert Camu.

From July 22 to August 18, Russian cities (Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Perm, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok) will tour the Swiss-Slovenian duo Veli & amos. Artists will show their film “Style Wars 2”-a kind of sequel to the legendary picture of the 1983 New York street art, Row-Muy, dedicated to graffiti scene in the States, Europe, Israel, Palestine. As well as music clips and videos of their many projects, which combine kichevy rap, street art and other disciplines. - For starters: how did you meet?

The point is not even in the Pokemon, which should be caught and trained using a augmented reality screen in phones. The fact that Pikachu and other pocket monsters have triumphantly returned twenty years later, exploding all mobile applications stores by downloading-indisputable marketing and commercial luck Nintendo , but this is perhaps the topic for a serious business research. We should not even occupy us of behavioral reasoning that the game-de makes now walking the streets.

On July 23, the GIPSY club will host a festival of music and style Back to the 60's , dedicated to the leading sixties. The initiator of the festival, the leader of the Bravo group, Evgeny Havtan, spoke about what the 1960s must be appreciated for, about the subculture of mods and beloved Russian festivals. - Did you personally come up with the Back to the 60's festival ? - Life came up with! This kind of festivals are all over the world - in America, in Europe, in England.

Bekmambetov: Filming of the film with Cumberbatch and Gillenhaol will begin this year © america.pink Timur Bekmambetov, the producer of the film “The Current War” with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jake Gyllenhaol in the main roles, said that the picture would begin at the end of 2016. Bekmambetov told RIA Novosti about this, noting that now preparations are underway for the filming process.