Last year, the Oscar ceremony was spoiled by a racial scandal-representatives of the African American community, including the director Spike Lee, were outraged by a small number of African Americans in the nominations (and the politically responsible musical Lee did not get into the short list at all). This year, the film academy has indicatively corrected.

Awarded "Oscars" © Patrick T. Fallon / The New York Times On Sunday, February 26, in Los Angeles the 89th Oscar awarded the Awards awarded by the American Film Academy took place. The prize for the best film of 2016 was won by the drama Barry Jenkins "Moonlight". Barry Jenkins also received an Oscar for the adapted script, and actor Mahershal Ali work in the “Moonlight” brought the award in the category “Best Male Role of the Supporting”.

The film about Perm-36 prisoners will be shown in the Central House On March 5, in the center of documentary cinema (CDC) in Moscow, a show of documentary Sergei Kachkin “Perm-36. Reflection ”dedicated to the three former political prisoners of the Perm-36 camp. Heroes of the film "Perm-36. Reflection ” - worker Viktor Pestov, literary critic Mikhail Meilay and human rights activist Sergei Kovalev.

The premiere of “Requiem” Alexander Manotskov will be held in Moscow On March 15, in the Moscow International House of Music (MMDM), the world premiere of the composition of Alexander Manotskov “Requiem, or Children's Games” written for the children's choir will be held. “A familiar ritual is turned into action, a performance, a performance. The child step by step “loses” the plots that are actually a genuine hidden core of many children's games, ” the MMDM website said.

Next to me are the two heads of the dragon. We are sitting in the Moscow Art Theater Hall, I am at the passage, dragons - neat boys of about ten years - on the right. They do not laugh, sit quietly. The performance is already about fifteen minutes. No, more: while we were sitting, it seemed like a buzzing-from an old TV, where there was no picture, but only ripples, the creaky totalitarian and grass marches poured from the stage. Then Lancelot (Cyril Vlasov) appeared in the black doorway.

Russians noted the improvement of the quality of domestic cinema According to the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), most residents of Russia believes that over the past two years, the quality of Russian cinema has grown. A study in the form of a personal formalized interview was conducted by order of the Film Foundation in December and January in cinemas of 10 cities of the Russian Federation.

Last week, Ilya Kormiltsev “Illuminator”, in which “Chayf”, “Bi-2”, Nastya Poleva and Vyacheslav Butusov took part in the light of the memory of Ilya Kormilter. Following the compilation of songs to Kormiltsev’s poems, the collection of his works is expected to be expected to enter, journalism, essays and letters. Denis Boyarinov asked Vyacheslav Butusov about how they were friends and worked with Ilya Kormiltsev, recorded the Titanic and Yablokitai.

Isaac, it seems, will not be transmitted to the Russian Orthodox Church. The Kremlin washes his hands, foggy saying that Governor Poltavchenko had “not agreed” with this rash step with the first person. The Ministry of Culture is more clearly expressing his bewilderment and stood up for museum workers. Liberal Petersburg rejoices: "We won!" For the most part, the townspeople are careful and tuned to the partisan struggle - regardless of the enthusiasm of opposition politicians.

The first season of the Lyceum literary prize was opened Today, February 27, at a press conference in Moscow, the first season of the new literary prize "Lyceum" named after A.S. Pushkin. The prize fund of the award established to encourage young authors is 4.8 million rubles.

In Yekaterinburg, a performance was staged by Chechen diaries Polina Zherebtsova © Yeltsin Center On March 4, on the Theater Platform “In the Center” in Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, a performance on the Chechen diaries of Polina Zhertsova “Ant in a glass jar will be presented. Chechen diaries 1994-2004. " The director of the performance is Semyon Serzin, the artist - Alexander Miklyaev. Ekaterina Sokolova, Dmitry Zimin and Ivan Popov are employed in the play.