Angels and laborers Non-competition screenings of the Moscow International Film Festival: "Megacities" and "The Imaginary Life of Angels" Let's start with numbers. The population of Moscow and New York is approximately 8-9 million. About 24 million people live in Mexico City, 15-17 in Bombay. Nobody knows the exact numbers, because it is impossible to say with certainty where monster cities begin and end. Not only spatial boundaries are arbitrary.

How Aki nailed Mike to Grandma The first week of the MIFF has passed , and it’s time to sum up the interim results. First, about the competition program. The best competitive film of the first week of the festival is “Lust for Life” by 87-year-old Japanese classic Kaneto Shindo. A beautifully shot, touching film about the complex relationships between children and the elderly, certainly deserves attention, as does the fact that, by and large, it does not yet have a single serious competitor.

A good person always has somewhere to go Competition films of the Moscow International Film Festival Having completed the festival route halfway, we note that there were no surprises: today's MIFF is more reminiscent of the St. Petersburg "Festival of Festivals" than an international film forum of category "A". Among the numerous “panoramas” and special screenings, the competition program looks pale. In addition, the weekend was marked by a scandal.

On the development of the Internet in France From correspondence between A. Velichko and E. Gorny Anatoly Velichko anatoli.velitchko@cegetel.fr Paris, July 5, 1999 Dear Zhenya! In one of your previous letters you asked me how things are with the Internet in France. I must say that I am not a great expert in this matter, although I am currently working as a programmer, as you know. My specialty is databases and management systems.

"Serving her is ideal freedom" Oleg Genisaretsky Publication date: July 26, 1999 Robert Graves. White goddess. Historical grammar of poetic mythology. Per. from English L. Volodarskaya. - M.: "Progress-Tradition", 1999. - 591 p. In the 60s, this book by R. Graves was a cult among the young generation of the then underground, many of whose people are known today under different, sometimes quite decent, sometimes scandalous, names.