Movies in cinemas in Prague - 15.6.2012

Nader and Simin argue about living abroad. Simin prefers to live abroad to provide better opportunities for their only daughter, Termeh. However, Nader refuses to go because he thinks he must stay in Iran and take care of his father, who suffers from Alzheimers. However, Simin is determined to get a divorce and leave the country with her daughter.

Nominated for 2 Oscars including Best Foreign Language Film and Best Original Screenplay

Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami, Sareh Bayat, Shahab Hosseini, Merila Zare'i, Sarina Farhadi

About heroin with love. “Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol, and dental insurance.… But why would I want to do a thing like that? I chose not to choose life. I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who needs reasons when you’ve got heroin?” Mark Renton (Ewan McGregor), hero of the cult novel by Irvin Welsh as well as its successful film version, is a junkie of his own free-will who, together with his “friends” Spud, Sick Boy, Tommy and sociopath Begbie, indulges in heroin. Their revolt against the values of mainstream society might be a bit weird and self-destructive, nevertheless, they enjoy it enough, without realizing its inevitable ends. However, Renton decides to give up heroin – yet, can “normal life” offer him the same excitement as a proper dose? This is the second feature film by Danny Boyle (also known for The Beach or Slumdog Millionaire) and the drug scene of Edinburgh in the 80s, struck by economic crises, is shown here with authentic rawness. This is, however, perfectly balanced by black humor and surrealistic emphasis. The film also features an unforgettable soundtrack, with all the brilliant stars of British guitar and electronic music of the early 90s (Blur, Primal Scream, New Order, Pulp). Moreover, the song Born Slippy. NUXX by Underworld became a manifesto of the whole generation.

Ewan McGregor, Ewen Bremner, Jonny Lee Miller, Kevin McKidd, Robert Carlyle, Kelly Macdonald, Peter Mullan, James Cosmo, Susan Vidler, Shirley Henderson, Irvine Welsh, Keith Allen, Kevin Allen, John Hodge

When Fidel Castro opens the harbor at Mariel, Cuba, he sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives in the United States. Among all the refugees, there is one who wants it all, his name is Tony Montana. Tony and his friend Manny arrive in the United States and start in small time jobs. Soon, they are hired by Omar Suarez to pay money to a group of Colombians. When the deal goes wrong, Tony and Manny leave with the money and succeed in their job. Soon Tony meets with drug kingpin Frank Lopez and falls for his boss’s girl, Elvira. Pretty soon Tony will know that those who want it all, do not last forever; that is the price of power. The world will know Montana by one name – Scarface.

Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Robert Loggia, Miriam Colon, F. Murray Abraham, Paul Shenar, Harris Yulin, Al Israel, Mark Margolis, Richard Belzer, Gregg Henry, Brett Ratner, Katt Shea, Lana Clarkson, Gary Carlos Cervantes

Continuing the epic big-screen adventures started in “Iron Man,” “The Incredible Hulk,” “Iron Man 2,” “Thor” and “Captain America: The First Avenger,” “Marvel’s The Avengers” is the superhero team up of a lifetime. When an unexpected enemy emerges that threatens global safety and security, Nick Fury, Director of the international peacekeeping agency known as SHIELD, finds himself in need of a team to pull the world back from the brink of disaster. Spanning the globe, a daring recruitment effort begins.

Robert Downey Jr., Jeremy Renner, Scarlett Johansson, Chris Evans, Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Hemsworth, Mark Ruffalo, Clark Gregg, Lou Ferrigno, Tom Hiddleston, Cobie Smulders, Paul Bettany, Gwyneth Paltrow, Stellan Skarsgård, Jenny Agutter, Enver Gjokaj, Walter Perez, Stan Lee, Alexis Denisof, Ashley Johnson, Powers Boothe, Harry Dean Stanton, Damion Poitier, Arthur Darbinyan, Jerzy Skolimowski

The movie is based on a popular TV series Okresni prebor (County Championship). As the title promises, the movie features the legendary figure of a licensed coach – Josef Hnatek. And as this man starred in the series only as ashes spread on the pitch of the Houslice village, the filmmakers decided to give the audience his live version. That sets the story of the feature movie in this man’s life, spinning the dilemma of an all-life football addict. Well, football is more than life to him. The title role of this Houslice’s persona is played by Miroslav Krobot – a theater director, art director of the Prague Dejvicke divadlo and an occasional actor.

Miroslav Krobot, Ondřej Vetchý, Luděk Sobota, Jaroslava Pokorná, David Novotný, …

(Prometheus)Ridley Scott / USA, 2012English version / Czech subtitles, 123 minA team of scientists journey through the universe on the spaceship “Prometheus” on a voyage to investigate Alien life forms. The team of scientists becomes stranded on an Alien world, and as they struggle to survive it becomes clear that the horrors they experience are not just a threat to themselves, but to all of mankind.

Noomi Rapace, Guy Pearce, Michael Fassbender, Charlize Theron, Idris Elba, Sean Harris, Kate Dickie, Logan Marshall-Green, Rafe Spall, Benedict Wong, Patrick Wilson, Emun Elliott, Lucy Hutchinson

A documentary about the design of cities, which looks at the issues and strategies behind urban design and features some of the world’s foremost architects, planners, policymakers, builders, and thinkers.

Agent J (Will Smith) time-travels back to the 1960s, where an alien with its sights on the younger version of Agent K poses a threat to the future of the MIB organization – and humankind’s very existence.

Will Smith, Tommy Lee Jones, Jemaine Clement, Josh Brolin, Lady Gaga, …

Comic Sacha Baron Cohen re-teams with director Larry Charles (Borat, Bruno) for this satirical tale of an oppressive, democracy-hating dictator and a goatherd (both played by Cohen) whose misadventures in America lead to a series of outrageous culture clashes. Anna Faris, Ben Kingsley, and Curb Your Enthusiasm’s J. B. Smoove co-star.

Sacha Baron Cohen, Ben Kingsley, Anna Faris, Megan Fox, B. J. Novak, …

In the epic action-adventure Snow White and the Huntsman, Kristen Stewart plays the only person in the land fairer than the evil queen (Charlize Theron) out to destroy her. But what the wicked ruler never imagined is that the young woman threatening her reign has been training in the art of war with a huntsman (Chris Hemsworth) dispatched to kill her. Sam Claflin joins the cast as the prince long enchanted by Snow White’s beauty and power.

Kristen Stewart, Charlize Theron, Chris Hemsworth, Ian Mcshane, Bob Hoskins, …

After a pope dies the conclave meets in order that the cardinals may choose his successor. Several rounds of voting must take place before white smoke over the Sistine Chapel finally announces that the new pope has been elected, and before the traditional announcement from the balcony in front of St. Peter’s Basilica: “Habemus papam.” But this time around the faithful assembled in the square below, a crowd hundreds of thousands strong, wait in vain for the balcony doors to open and the new head of the Catholic Church to appear. The cardinal who has been chosen is suddenly hit with a panic attack over the responsibilities he must take on. Anxiety? Depression? Fear that he is not up to the task? The Vatican is in shock and everyone is searching for a remedy. They decide to call in an eminent psychotherapist to help solve the situation.

Michel Piccoli, Nanni Moretti, Margherita Buy, Jerzy Stuhr, Renato Scarpa, …

Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippopotamus set out to return to New York after escaping to Africa. Dependent on the mechanical know-how of the notorious chimpanzees and penguins, their plan inevitably goes awry and they find themselves stranded in Monte Carlo, where they try to escape Europe from animal control by joining up with a traveling circus by chance. Led by the venerable Siberian tiger Vitaly, the animal-centered circus has seen better days. During the course of a tour through a series of European cities that ends in a fabulous big top in the heart of London, Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria help Vitaly, Gia the jaguar, and Stefano the sea lion, rediscover their passion for show business and reinvent circus performance.

Ben Stiller, Sacha Baron Cohen, Martin Short, Cedric the Entertainer, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Andy Richter, Frances McDormand, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain, Paz Vega, John Di Maggio, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, Tom McGrath

Ota, a former teacher, is a bit whimsical at his age, which complicates the lives of his son and daughter-in-law. He is about to undergo a big surgery, which makes Ota decide that this is the right time to seek that someone who had influenced his life many years ago. Meeting the actress Jana turns out to be different than he’d imagined. Nevertheless, it is this vital lady, rejecting to give up her active life, who twists Ota’s life again. Thanks to Jana, he sets out on an adventurous road-movie, one he’d probably not dared to go at a younger age. This important meeting is what persuades both of them that the worst thing one can do is give everything up!

Radoslav Brzobohatý, Jiřina Bohdalová, Ivan Trojan, Jiří Dvořák, Jiřina Jirásková, …

In the year 1752, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from Liverpool, England to start a new life in America. But even an ocean was not enough to escape the mysterious curse that has plagued their family. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet-or at least the town of Collinsport, Maine. The master of Collinwood Manor, Barnabas is rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy…until he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death: turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once-grand estate has fallen into ruin. The dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better…

Johnny Depp, Eva Green, Jackie Earle Haley, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Lee, …

In 1983 arrived in communist Czechoslovakia at last full wave of punk. Eighteen year old Miki and his friend provocative Dejvidem not want to be left behind. Do not Stop is the story of one year of life, even when not thinking about tomorrow or the consequences of their decisions, but only to promote the generation of the right to their own lifestyle. – Translated by Google Translate

Patrik Děrgel, Lukáš Reichl, Jiří Kocman, Jakub Zedníček, Oliver Cox, Viola Černodrinská, Klára Pollertová-Trojanová, Kristína Svarinská, Jiří Štrébl, Stanislava Jachnická

Marion (Delpy) has split up with Jack and now lives with her DJ partner Mingus (Rock) and their children. But when her French family come to visit her in New York, her nympho sister decides to bring Marion’s ex-boyfriend’s along. She is unprepared for the chaos that follows as she tries to juggle her personal life with a forthcoming art exhibition where she plans to sell her soul to the highest bidder. As before, Delpy writes, directs and stars in the laugh-out-loud sequel to 2 Days in Paris.

Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, Aleksia Landeau, Kate Burton

MS One: Maximum SecurityTweetSet in the near future, Emilie (Maggie Grace), the President’s daughter is visiting a maximum-security prison in outer space when an unexpected riot breaks out, and the criminals take over the space craft. The government has no choice but to send in Snow (Guy Pearce), a snarky, wrongly-accused convict and former government agent who is offered his freedom if he can rescue her.Action, Thriller, Sci-Fi – France, USA, 2012, 95 minAvailable from:15 let

Maggie Grace, Guy Pearce, Peter Stormare, Vincent Regan, Tim Plester, …

While on holiday, David (Xavier Samuel) and Mia (Laura Brent) meet and fall in love. By the end of the week, David proposes to Mia and they will be married within a few days. David travels back to England and rounds up his three best friends, sensible Tom (Kris Marshall), naive Graham (Kevin Bishop), and recently dumped-in turn depressed Luke (Tim Draxl), and the groom and his best men trek to Australia for David and Mia’s wedding. But Mia’s parents, Barbara (Olivia Newton-John) and Jim (Jonathan Biggins), are skeptical of this sudden elopement and when Jim’s prized sheep gets involved, all chaos breaks loose.

Laura Brent, Xavier Samuel, Kris Marshall, Kevin Bishop, Tim Draxl, …

A story about Kathy and her dog Hugo. Hugo is a dachshund, a gift to Kathy from her grandfather Mojmír, who is the only one convinced that his granddaughter does not need “medication”, just a good friend. In other words, grandpa Mojmír has discovered the the usefulness of dog therapy. His eight-year-old granddaughter suffers from ADHD (she has difficulty concentrating and hyperactivity), which manifests itself in the form of inattentiveness, absentmindedness, forgetfulness, and continuous motion – so she may appear to other people as a naughty and rude child. Hugo is her guardian, he is a source of tension and release, and last but not least he gets her into humorous situations.

Lukáš Vaculík, Jitka Ježková, Vladimír Javorský, Veronika Divišová, Simona Stašová, …