There were already rumors about the new “cheap” Apple smartphone, but new information has appeared on the Web. It is reported that the device will be released for the release of the iPhone 5s. The company expects that it will become a hit of sales in developing markets, such as China. At the moment, the release date is still unknown, however, according to Macotakara, the production of phones will begin in the near future.

Lists Arcade Classics of the 70s, the end of the world and destroyed Moscow-in reviews of experts Look at Me Every week, in the Chekpont section, our experts, lovers of video games, talk about what they played this week: about the best old games and recent releases, about shooters and quests, about dungeons and racing tracks.

Close -up Spanish, English, French-with the same energy and pressure In the “close -up” section, we traditionally analyze the branded techniques of beloved actors. This week, a new film by Pedro Almodovar “I am very excited” with Penelope Cruz, albeit in an insignificant role, was released. Her characters, as a rule, differ in expressive speech (regardless of the language in which the actress has to speak).

Film director Daria Belova received the Discovery Prize for her short film “Go and Play,” Filmpro.ru reports. The film was presented as part of the International Criticism Week program at the 66th Cannes Film Festival. The 30-minute film “Come and Play” by a student from St. Petersburg, based on her own script, tells the story of the relationship between Russians and Germans after the events of World War II.

Other "Problems begin when ten musicians want to go to a restaurant" Today, the English group Chrome Hoof will perform at the opening of the summer program of the Strelka Institute. For more than ten years, so, so to say, the ensemble (in different times happens from 8 to 25 people) extremely skillfully crosses the freest jazz, psychedelic rock and even metal, receiving at the exit Text: Artem Luchko Dance music is literally for everyone.

In New York, a life-size X-wing fighter jet made entirely of Lego was unveiled in Times Square. The design became the largest model the company has created to date. The ship is 3.3 meters tall, 13 meters long, has a wingspan of 13.4 meters and is an exact replica of Lego set #9493. The design was assembled in the Czech Republic from more than five million parts. The fighter weighs just over 20 tons (including the steel reinforcement that supports the structure from the inside).

Amanda Seyfrid, who recently shone in the musical “outcast”, is negotiating about the participation of Noah Baumbach in the new film, reports The Wrap . An indie director, whose new film “Francis Ha” last week was released in American rental (Russian premiere-June 20), plans the painting “While we are young”. The plot talks about a married couple, which makes an acquaintance with a younger couple.

Charli XCX throws a party in every video she makes. Charlotte had fun at a weapons factory , had a bachelorette party at a hotel , and now the singer chose the most suitable place for a party - a smoky nightclub. The Take My Hand video was directed by Ryan Andrews. The video maker and Charlotte met in a nightclub, which explains the choice of such a location for the video. In an interview with Urban Outfitters, the artists said they get along great.

After seven years of silence, Boards of Canada have finally released a new song, Reach for the Dead. The electronic composition will be part of the new album by the Scottish brothers Tomorrow's Harvest. Five minutes of new material was supported by visualization. In the video, where there is not a single living soul, the viewer is given the opportunity to see spectacular landscapes and fly between heaven and earth. This video was first shown on May 22 on the big screen in Tokyo.

Lists Perhaps the last hits of the current generation of consoles and other important new products This summer, Sony and Microsoft represent their new game consoles. The games of the new generation will appear only in the fall, but the enthusiastic graphics can be appreciated soon - in the main hit of the summer The Last of US.

Google presented the redesign of the Trends service, which collects information about which search queries are most popular at the moment. A new full -screen visualization mode of “hot searches” is colored tiles where requests pop up. In the upper left corner, you can choose the type of grid, and from below - indicate the region of interest to you from the currently supported. The Chart page now resembles the summarizing of annual results, but with a division by months until 2004.

The Polish graphic designer Mikhal Krasnopolski created a series of minimalistic posters for classical films, using only the simplest geometric shapes built into a hard grid: a circle inscribed in a square and divided into 8 sectors. “I just drew these two lines, one red, the other green, turned out to be a“ Jedi Return, ”Mikhal said in an interview with FastCodesign . From this scheme, he built a grid template, which he used to create a series of 22 new drawings.

Director David Vincent Wolfe filmed the guys from Portugal. The Man took a close-up, distorted their faces in a video editor and made a video out of it. In the black and white video you can hear the new song Atomic Man, which will be included in the seventh album of the group Evil Friends. Release date: June 4. Evil Friends was produced by Danger Mouse. It is also known that while working on new material Portugal. The Man was inspired by the album Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd.

Petr Efimovich Todorovsky died in a Moscow hospital at the age of 88 after a long illness, RIA Novosti reports. In early April he suffered a heart attack, and in May the director underwent treatment.

Stephen Soderberg officially completed his career as a film director, but he did not say anything like this about television. His last work-“For Candeles” about the famous pianist liberal-is somewhere on the border between TV and the big movie: the film was shown in the competition of the Cannes Film Festival, but it will not be released, and the American premiere will be held on the Sunday on the HBO channel.