Depeche Mode is a group, the first impression of a meeting with which can be deceiving. As the photographer Anton Corbein recalled, he was reluctant to take his first shooting with Depeche Mode , because he believed that this Basildon Boyzbend, who burst into the hit parades with the I Just Canomet Get En feing, is a one-day darling. It was 1981 in the yard. Depeche Mode only released the debut album “Speak and Spell” , most uncomplicated songs of which were written by Vince Clark.

From July 20 to 23 , the II Moscow International Festival of Experimental Cinema will be held in the Moscow Electr theater Stanislavsky. In addition to the cinema and video art in his program-multimedia events like the performance Dmitry Volkostralov or the Vije-Set of the Dutch researcher Esther Uldrus, who is engaged in the reconstruction of fossil technologies for the manufacture and processing of the film (in the "Stanislavsky" she will create a video company on four 16-mm projectors).

Full program Strelka Film Festival 2017 © Institute "Strelka" Frame from the film "Holy Mountain" Eleven films were included in the program of the second International Film Festival Otkritie X Strelka Film Festival, which will be held at the Institute of Media, Architecture and Design of Strelka in Moscow from July 19 to 28.

George Romero died © Lucca Film Festival On July 16, the American-Canadian film director George Romero died in Toronto at the age of 77. According to Variety , the cause of death was lung cancer. George Romero was born in 1940 in New York, graduated from the University of Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh (1960), in 1968 he shot his first full-length film for $ 114, “Night of the Living Dead), which gathered $ 30 million and laid the foundation for a whole direction in the movie- Zombie-Horror.

For the first time in many years, access to the courtyard courtyard has been opened © Official portal of the mayor and the government of Moscow The State Tretyakov Gallery expanded the pedestrian space in Lavrushinsky Lane, opening the courtyard to visit, which was closed for several decades. “Walking along the new pedestrian route, Muscovites can see the rear facade of the Church of St. Nicholas in the Tolmaci of the 17th century.

If you can reduce the book of poems, complex, overflowing fuzzy, blurred in the air, to one, main, theme, the rod of the leitmotif, on which the leaves of the sheets are collected by a hut, then it turns out that the “tornado behind the forest” of Leo Oborin is all about time, elusive physical, historical. And indeed about a tornado, twisted, directed not only forward and backward, but also in the sides with spread hands.

A retrospective Jean-Luka Godard will be held in St. Petersburg and Moscow © "Noveokino" frame from the film "Mad Pierrot" From July 20 to July 22, the cinemas of St. Petersburg and Moscow will take place of the Retrospectives of Jean-Luka Godard, organized by Noveokino. “The leader of the French new wave opened for world culture not only the possibility of alternative ways to create a film, but also a new space of language and thinking.

The book of Marcus Leman "forcibly baptized" is recognized as an extremist The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation entered the federal list of extremist materials by the book of Marcus Leman “forcibly baptized”, an adventure novel from the life of Lithuanian and Polish Jews of the XIV century.

The first volume of Konstantin Somov’s diaries, one of the most prominent Russian artists of the turn of the XIX -XX centuries, the brightest representative of the art of art association, was published in the Publishing House of Dmitry Sechin. About this first full edition of his diaries Colta.ru already wrote here . On July 11, the Moscow Presentation of Tom with records of 1917-1923 was held in the bookstore of the Words in the “Stanislavsky Electric Theater”.

The appearance in the program of the ex-en-product "Carmen" Georges Bizet seemed a joke. The last time the festival cultivating the Gourmet opera taste allowed itself such gluttony 60 years ago. But it was precisely so unobvious for this score that the context made curiosity. The name of the director Dmitry Chernyakov was also poorly glued in mind with the plot about everyday murder on the basis of jealousy. Not that Chernyakov is always looking for an exclusive repertoire.

In December 2013, waiting for landing on a flight to Cape Town to anyone unknown PR manager of the American digital publishing house IAC, Justin Sakko sent a tweet: “I'm going to Africa. I hope not to catch AIDS. Kidding. I'm white! " In principle, for its 170 followers, replicas playing stereotypes on the verge of a foul were familiar, but do not underestimate the power of one retweet. Upon arrival in Cape Town, Juustin was already in Twitter's trends.

Kurentzis will perform in Novosibirsk for the first time since 2011 © Novosibirsk State Philharmonic On December 24, at the closure of the XII of the International Christmas Arts Festival in Novosibirsk, a concert of the Musicaeterna orchestra under the direction of Theodore Krentzis will be held - the first since 2011, when he left the position of musical leader of the Novosibirsk opera and moved to Perm. The evening program has the seventh "Leningrad" Symphony Shostakovich.