ALMATY, Dec 9
USA-UK: Polygram Film Entertainment, 1999.
123 min.
Showing at the Iskra cinema, equipped with new screens and fine sound. The film is shown both in afternoons and evenings.
Knotting Hill is a romantic comedy, with Hollywood stars Julia Roberts and Hugh Grant in the lead roles. Julia Roberts, a red-haired girl with a wide smile became famous after her 1991 performance in Pretty Woman. She was awarded a Golden Globe for best leading actress (Comedy/Musical) for that role. Hugh Grant first gained notoriety as the �beauty� in Four Weddings and A Funeral.
The film by Roger Mitchell is a speculation on the theme of �rich and poor.� Julia Roberts almost seems to be playing herself, as movie star Anna Scott who has everything she needs to be a prima donna: millions of dollars, a capricious character, a jealous friend and many others complexes. William Taker (Hugh Grant), owner of a small bookshop in a quiet district in London, leads an average man�s life. He is not at all interested in movies. They live in parallel worlds that, according to the laws of geometry, will never cross.
The two had a one in a million chance of meeting, but they were lucky. The sort of luck that happens in Hollywood films. On the day of the London premier of her film, Anna enters the shop where William sells books�
Can a film star fall in love right on the street? You will know the answer if you watch Knotting Hill. You may enjoy watching this ideal couple�s stormy love for 2 hours. Or you may not. Either way, the film is one that should be watched in the cinema, with a large screen and a good sound.
Iskra cinema
44 Dostyk Ave., at Dzhambul St.
ALMATY, Dec 9
(THE GLOBE)
In the Modern Art Gallery Tengri-Umai, an exhibition of two painters � Oleg Chekmezov, sculptor and Vsevolod Demidov, graphic artist � has opened. The exhibition is called �Favorable Fjord�.
Two intellectual hermits open the viewer�s eyes to nature and creation. They are hard-working as miners and devoted as treasure hunters; they have created these works which appeal to people in the language of plastic and paintings. The mystery and magic of images are presented through traditional artistic techniques.
Oleg Chekmezov and Vsevolod Demidov populate the world with wise men, elders and wanderers, symbols and idols and other philosophic images. Thus, they transform into variety of the world with a rapture of primitive painters such as �Temei�, �Lao-tzy�, �Pindola�, �Hermit�, �Chjuan-zjy�, �Karma�, and �Trizna�).
Moving mythical continents; esoteric boats drifting on endless waters; changing generations of people, sea giants, flying objects � all these are outside the normal time and space that unites human time into a homogenous life. Some of their strongest examples are the works �Mother and a child�, �Seller of birds�, �Fisherman letting fish out from the net�, �Square of changes�, �Dao wheel� and �Fish of changes�.
In fact, the Fjord seems favorable for painters who are free to express themselves for centuries.
December 10, 1906 President Theodore Roosevelt became the first American to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, for helping to mediate an end to the Russo-Japanese War.
December 10, 1931 Jane Addams became a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the first American woman so honored.
December 10, 1948 the UN General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.
December 10, 1950 Ralph J. Bunche was presented the Nobel Peace Prize, the first black American to receive the award.
December 10, 1964 Dr. Martin Luther King Junior received the Nobel Peace Prize during ceremonies in Oslo, Norway.
December 10, 1984 South African Bishop Desmond Tutu received the Nobel Peace Prize.
December 11, 1937 Italy withdrew from the League of Nations.
December 12, 1963 Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
December 10
Russian Drama Theatre. �Rendez-vous with Gunshot� by F. Weber. 6.30 p.m.
New Scene Theatre. �Mademoiselle de la Belle-Isle� A. Dumas. 6 p.m.
December 11
New Scene Theatre. �Love� by G. de Montpassant. 6 p.m.
December 12
New Scene Theatre. �Glass Menagerie� by T. Williams. 5 p.m.
November 25 to December 20
Kasteev Museum. �Dva pitertsa� exhibition � paintings by Dulat ALIEV and sculpture by Dair TULEKOV. Two artists from the school of the St. Petersburg Arts Academy.
From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., except Monday.
December 2 to February 4
Kasteev Museum. Exhibition of the Semipalatinsk Nevzorov Arts Museum. �Russian art of the late 18th to the early 20th centuries.� (Paintings, graphics).
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday.
Kasteev Museum. Exhibition of works by S. Kalmykov, I. Itkind, V. Eifert and one painting by Rudolf Nuriev.
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday
November 27 to December 12
Tengri-Umai Gallery. Exhibition of Vsevolod Demidov and Oleg Chekmezov �Favorable Ford�. (Small plastics, graphics, collages).
From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., except Monday.
Kasteev State National Museum � 30a Satpaev. Tel.: 478356
Archeological Museum � 85 Dostyk, at Abai. Tel.: 618585
Tribuna Gallery � 14a Republic Square. Tel: 694628
Orkhon Modern Arts Gallery � Zangar Trade House (TsUM), 3rd floor
Tengri-Umai Gallery � Ablai Khan at Abai, in the lobby of the Russian Drama Theatre
New Scene Theatre � 103 Panfilov, at Zhibek Zholy, in the Kazaktelecom Building
Russian Drama Theatre � Ablai Khan at Abai.
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