The weekend starts off with a bang with the first Rostech International Fireworks Festival on Vorobyovy Gory. On both Friday and Saturday nights pyrotechnics experts from Europe, Asia, Latin America and Russia will compete for the best bang and flash in the skies. The grand finale will be a multimedia show combining fireworks, music, water and light shows. There will be restrictions on traffic near the site from 4 to 11 p.m. as well as a ban on riverboat traffic from 7 to 11 p.m.
Inside, there is a particularly rich assortment of English-language films on this weekend. For a bit of high culture, you can see two films of stage plays.
Of Mice and Men: Tony Award-winning director Anna D. Shapiro's Broadway revival of John Steinbeck's classic stars James Franco and Chris O'Dowd.
Formula Kino Praga Formula Kino Praga. 10 Nizhnyaya Maslovka, M. Savyolovskaya, 800-250-8025. Sun. at 3 p.m.
The Audience: Peter Morgan's play imagines a series of pivotal meetings between Downing Street incumbents and their queen. Directed by Stephen Daldry, stars Helen Mirren as Queen Elizabeth II. National Theater production.
Center of Documentary Cinema 2 Zubovsky Bulvar, Bldg. 7. Metro Park Kultury. 495-637-7919, cdkino.ru. Fri. at 7:30 p.m.
Or get some good feelings at Pride: U.K. gay activists work to help miners during their lengthy strike of the National Union of Mineworkers in the summer of 1984. Matthew Warchus' comedy starring Bill Nighy, Imelda Staunton and Dominic West.
35MM. 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142. Fri. at 2 p.m., Sun. at 10 a.m.
Or go '60s mod with The Man From U.N.C.L.E.: In the early 1960s, CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB operative Illya Kuryakin participate in a joint mission against a mysterious criminal organization, which is working to proliferate nuclear weapons. Guy Ritchie's action comedy starring Henry Cavill, Armie Hammer and Alicia Vikander.
35MM. 47/24 Ulitsa Pokrovka. Metro Krasniye Vorota, Kurskaya. 495-780-9142.? Fri. at 8:20 p.m., Sat. at 1:40 and 8 p.m., Sun. at 2:05 p.m. In English.
GUM Hall. 3 Red Square, line 3, floor 3. Metro Ploshchad Revolyutsii. 495-620-3062. Fri. at 12:45 p.m., Sat. and Sun. at 9 p.m.
Pioner. 21 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. Metro Kutuzovskaya. 499-240-5240. Fri. at 11 a.m., 3:25, 7:20 and 9:35 p.m.; Sat. at 1:30, 4, 6:15, 8:30 p.m. and 12:25 a.m.; Sun. at 9:30 a.m., 3:50, 6:05, 8:20 and 10:35 p.m.
If you haven't caught it, there's still time to see the Kostroma National Folk Dance Show. Kosmos Hall. 150 Prospekt Mira. Metro VDNKh. 495-234-1054. Fri., Sat., and Sun. at 7:30 p.m.
Or chill with Bacardi Music Gateaway Party featuring The Juan MacLean Band, including vocalist Nancy Whang, with the In a Dream program. Strelka. 14 Bersenevskaya Naberezhnaya, Bldg. 5A. Metro Polyanka. 495-771-7437, facebook.com. Fri. At 11 p.m.