Music for the film Down House Director: Roman Kachalov Script: Ivan Okhlobystin Cast: I. Okhlobystin, F. Bondarchuk, B. Brylska, A. Troitsky, A. Buklovskaya. Russia, 2001. Denis Zakharov Publication date: May 25, 2001 Any film is accompanied by sound. This sound range cannot always be called music. Just like not every film can belong to the art of cinema. I would not like to argue about whether the film directed by Roman Kachanov “Down House” can go down in the history of world cinema.

Trapped in the Human Zoo Ziauddin Sardar New Statesman Being famous has long been beautiful. For modern people, celebrities have become reference points and role models. They replace religion, ideology, history and everything else for us. Moreover, they have become the main currency of the modern globalized economy. It looks like it will soon be difficult to get funding for a scientific project without some famous footballer or movie star backing it.

Selfish mime This article received the largest number of reader votes Richard Dawkins Publication date: May 25, 2001 Many years ago, at Oxford, I had a student who had an unusual habit. When I asked her some thought-provoking question, she would close her eyes tightly, lower her head low, resting her chin on her chest, and freeze in this position for about half a minute. After which she raised her head, opened her eyes, and then clearly and quickly answered the question posed.

About literature in Soviet Russia “Before the 19th Party Congress, issues of literature and art occupied a modest place in the repertoire of Georgy Malenkov . It is all the more remarkable that at the 19th Party Congress Malenkov “turned his face” to Russian culture. The “candidate” to be Stalin’s heir expressed dissatisfaction with the quality of Soviet literature... Malenkov is dissatisfied because the country has a lot of “trash works, written sluggishly and boringly”...

Interpol, issue 49. Worse than theft Ivan Davydov Publication date: May 25, 2001 Today, oddly enough, we will talk about new election technology. We will trace in detail the mechanism of its practical implementation, talk about the advantages and disadvantages of this amazing method. And finally, a little about compromising evidence and what happens when children, whose timid souls are poisoned by online pornography, turn into high-tech journalists.

Cinema on TV: May 28 - June 3 Ekaterina Barabash Publication date: May 25, 2001 I will be radical from the very beginning: the “everyday” part of the week is so low-grade that I will pay only a little attention to it. On Monday, those who get up early but don’t go to work can admire the muscles of Sylvester Stallone , which he will willingly play on TVC in the film “Cliff Climber” (9.15).

I planned to escape... Arkady Gaidar. Blue cup Alexandra Veselova Publication date: May 25, 2001 What kind of children are these days, really? There is no control over them! We waste our health on them, But they don't care about that. So-and-so! Escaped from the palace So-and-so! Upset my father. Y. Entin, Song of the King and Courtiers from the film "In the Footsteps of the Bremen Town Musicians" A children's writer always sits between two chairs.

Excitement and trepidation Politics as a sacred game Kirill Yakimets Publication date: May 25, 2001 What is politics? I do not ask “insiders” or experts about this, who associate politics primarily with their own professional activities. Question for the others. Politics is the content of the news and a topic for “talking about politics”, right? We are not talking about turning politics into a set of PR campaigns, although this idea is close to me.

Texts about hypertext: 4 Dmitry Essering Publication date: May 25, 2001 Arcadia From today we are closed. Unfortunately, market conditions today are not favorable for the development of Internet commerce projects. This is an objective reality and we are forced to accept it. officially announced its closure On May 17, a month and a half after his actual death, the online store Arkadia.ru . The event for the state of the Runet in which it is located is, in general, unremarkable and ordinary.

Cinema-40: Egyptian slides Retrospective Roy Andersson. (Festival show) . All the work of the cult Swedish director, preceding the "songs from the second floor." Before the break at twenty-five years, he shot in the 70th (and received several awards at once) The Swedish Love History, a kind of "romance about lovers" about very, very young and happy children. Then, in the 75th, already grotesque, and therefore not understood by the contemporaries of the Giliap.