Sacha Baron Cohen plays a bizarre North African despot in "The Dictator." On at Gorky Park's outdoor cinema and in English at Pioner. Festival Beat Film: Anton Corbijn Inside Out (2012): An intimate portrait of music video director Anton Corbijn as he travels the world. Formula Kino Gorizont Thurs. at 7:30 p.m. In English; Russian subtitles. Festival...

....m., Sun. at 7 p.m., Mon. and Wed. at 3, 5 and 7 p.m. In French, English and Polish; Russian subtitles. J. Edgar (2011): Clint Eastwood directs a biographical drama about J. Edgar Hoover starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer and Naomi Watts. Dome Cinema Call the theater for showings. In English; Russian translation by headphones. Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Puteshestviye 2: Tainstvenny Ostrov, 2012): Brad Peyton’s family adventure comedy starring Josh Hutcherson, Dwayne Johnson and...

Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in one of the capital's rundown cinemas. KABUL, Afghanistan — Clouds of hashish and cigarette smoke float across a screen showing a dancing Pakistani woman, who evokes yowls of excitement from the hundreds of Afghan men passing their time in one of the capital's rundown cinemas...

... teleportation, then it was going to be the Serbian-American whose reputation has reached new heights in recent years. How his invention ended up on Novy Arbat was a question that not even Tesla could answer. Alyona was my contact for the experience and Oktyabr cinema the venue. A friend who was living on Trubnikovsky Pereulok just around the corner said goodbye before I went in, and we agreed to meet in her flat in 2005 — a vintage year — if all worked, but instead we went to Saturn. To be honest...

... schematic and simplistic in its method that, without those events to prop it up, it is surely disposable. Simonov constructs the story of a film director who goes rogue and refuses to finish his film as his producer — the State Fund for the Support of Cinema — demanded. The state-controlled producer insisted that the final frames of the film demonstrate the Russian president efficiently solving all conflicts. The director agreed to the changes, but when he filmed the final scenes he stuck to...

...,” said Ksenia Velembovskaya, 60, editor of an academic journal. “Today, I feel great. These are our people.” Unlike the mass police presence last week, the peaceful march was epitomized by a policeman who stood near the Pushkin Square cinema and shouted at the crowd, “Careful, there are steps ahead!” Dozens of protesters at the opposition base camp at Chistiye Prudy braved chilly weather and rain on Saturday night, wrapping themselves in blankets under plastic sheets and...

... whom I know and some of whom I know only by name. Rock musician Andrei Makarevich was there. The artist Bilzho was there. The journalist and photographer Yury Rost was there. Curiously, I did not see many people who have made their mark primarily in cinema, but Moscow theater artists were out in large numbers. Playwrights were well represented by Maksym Kurochkin, Viktor Korkiya, Nina Belenitskaya, actor/playwright Sergei Yursky and others. Kurochkin and I chatted about the incredible transformation...

... the shadows. … I cannot stand this." Though she does acknowledge that her fame benefits the charity, she doesn't like being used. "You are in the public eye, and everyone has the right to use you." Khamatova has since stopped her cinema work because she found that the extra commitments caused by filming made life difficult for her theater colleagues. It is this sense of selflessness that defines her role at Gift of Life. This interview has been edited for length and clarity....