Orphan Brooklyn (Motherless Brooklyn)
For his second directorial project, Edward Norton (director of the film “Keeping Faith”, an actor in the films “Fight Club”, “Illusionist”, “American History X”) chose difficult material - Jonathan Lethem’s novel Orphan Brooklyn, whose action, however, from 1990s moved to 1950s.
Norton plays Lionel Essrog, a detective living with Tourette’s syndrome. He works for private investigator Frank Minnu (Bruce Willis) with friends in an orphanage. When the mentor of Lionel is killed, the hero decides to take up the investigation. It leads him to a girl struggling with widespread gentrification, held in New York with the knowledge of the main developer of the city of Moses Randolph.
The retrodrama gathered a powerful acting ensemble: in addition to Willis and Norton, Alec Baldwin, Bobby Cannavale and Willem Dafoe play in the film.
Read more about the film in an interview with Edward Norton.
Aeronauts (The Aeronauts)
Felicity Jones continues to work out the feminist agenda (since the story of Ruth Ginzburg in the tape "By Sex") - this time in the film "Aeronauts".
The film is based on data from the flight of British aeronauts James Glacier and Henry Coxwell in 1862. Coxwell in the film for the sake of trends was replaced by a fictional female character - Amelia Ren.
Wren is a wealthy woman, keen on aeronautics. James Glacier is a meteorologist who invites her to take a desperate journey on a balloon.
Jones in flight will be a partner in the "Stephen Hawking Universe" Eddie Redmayne.
Rzhev
The military drama of Igor Kopylov is dedicated to one of the most bloody battles of the Great Patriotic War - the Battle of Rzhev. The screen action takes place throughout the day, however, in addition to the chronicle of the day, the narrative contains stories from the peaceful life of various characters, and also shows the specifics of the wartime order - from the relativity of the concept of expediency to the contradiction of cruel laws to common sense.
The film was shot on the story “Atone with Blood” by Vyacheslav Kondratiev, who reflected his own experience and stories of fellow soldiers (the writer who personally participated in the battles near Rzhev was awarded the medal “For Courage”). In addition, the actors brought into the picture the features of their front-line relatives to honor their memory.
Read more about the premiere in RT.
The Current War
The “current of war” was the confrontation between inventors and businessmen Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse (on the side of which the scientist and engineer Nikola Tesla spoke). As you know, Edison advocated the development of a direct current network, and his opponent - for the idea of alternating current.
The dispute, begun by scientists back in the 1880s, ended only in November 2007: then New York refused to use direct current in favor of alternating current.
The development of a film dedicated to the confrontation of inventors was originally undertaken by Harvey Weinstein's company. The premiere of the picture took place at the Toronto festival in 2017, but because of the scandal that erupted, it did not go on a wide rental. As a result, Timur Bekmambetov and Martin Scorsese began producing the tape.
The academic community was embodied on the screen by Benedict Cumberbatch (Edison), Michael Shannon (Westinghouse) and Nicholas Holt (Tesla).
End of season
Three sisters - Vera, Elena and Anna - live in the Baltic town and earn by renting rooms in their own house. Among their guests are a novice writer, punk and military man. The sisters themselves, meanwhile, are dreaming of returning to Moscow.
“End of Season” is a free interpretation of Chekhov's “Three Sisters” by director Konstantin Khudyakov and producer Stanislav Govorukhin. The main roles in the film were played by Julia Snigir, Julia Peresild and Anna Chipovskaya.
Red ghost
The director of the drama “Judah” Andrei Bogatyryov, December 3, on the Day of the Unknown Soldier, releases his fifth full-length work “The Red Ghost” - a historical drama with Alexei Shevchenkov and Vladimir Gostyukhin in the lead roles.
The tape tells about the events in the village of Vyazma in the early 1940s. At the village, a group of Soviet soldiers collides with one of the units of the Wehrmacht. Exhausted by hunger and cold, the Red Army did not think to give up. On the side of the Soviet partisans is the Unknown Soldier, who is called the "Red Ghost".
I decided. Zero
“I decided. Zero ”- a prequel to two criminal dramas under the general name“ Solved ”. The screenwriters of previous films Zhargal Badmatsyrenov and Alexander Kuzminov were engaged in staging a new picture.
Russia, 2008. Two friends Kostya and Zavgar prefer to earn in an illegal way. As a rule, friends successfully perform financial fraud, but the risk does not always justify the means.
Dark Night
July 20, 2012 during a session of Christopher Nolan’s film “The Dark Knight: The Renaissance of a Legend” in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, the American fired a smoke bomb and started shooting at the audience. As a result, 12 people died, 70 were injured.
Chronology of events in Aurora was later shown by director and screenwriter Tim Sutton in the film “Dark Night”, which was released abroad in 2016. The painting was shown as part of the Horizons section at the 73rd Venice Film Festival. Now the film has reached Russia.
Simple pencil
The director of “Daughters” Natalya Nazarova shot a drama about drawing teacher Antonina, who had moved to the outback to her husband, who was serving time in a colony, and settled in a local school. Soon, the heroine finds out that the whole village is kept in fear by the older brother of her student, and the locals try not to notice the lawlessness. Antonina decides to challenge such orders.
Filming took place in the city of Segezha in Karelia. The tape participated in the main competition of the film festival "Window to Europe" this year.