Set during the first half of the 1970s, The Vanished Empire depicts a love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same Moscow university. As they argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories, the country they love undergoes sweeping and irreversible changes. The latest film by celebrated Russian filmmaker Karen Shakhnazarov (Zero City, Jazzman) is a cinematic love letter to a unique moment in the lives of the Soviet youth.SCHEDULED PLAYDATESNew York (Quad Cinema): July 10Los Angeles (Laemmles Music Hall): Sept 25 watch
After 4 years of participation as costumed historical re-enactors, Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope were given unprecedented access with their cameras to the UKs oldest and largest historical re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in rural Suffolk. watch
As the elderly residents of the Malden Retirement Home relax after dinner, just down the hall, Miles Holling, who is the world's oldest man and just one day shy of his 115th birthday, is being suffocated by a shadowy figure. Captain Stottlemeyer's wife Karen (Glenne Headly), who once profiled Holling in a documentary film she made, suspects that the elderly man's death was no accident. But Captain Stottlemeyer, citing Holling's age, believes he likely died of natural causes. Monk is brought in to settle the dispute, and he agrees with Karen. watch
