Dreaming of Space and 7th Avenue

Dreaming of Space (Kosmos kak predchuvstvie)
Russia, 2005 (90 minutes)

Saturday June 10, 1:30pm Lincoln Square
Monday June 12, 9:30pm The Neptune

Victor (Yevgeni Mironov) dreams of being a cosmonaut. He meets Gherman (Yevgeni Tsyganov), who longs to defect, at the local gym and they become sparring partners. Victor, or "Horsie" as his girl Lara (Irina Pegova) calls him, follows Gherman around like a puppy and soon they are inseparable friends. Set in a Russian coastal town on the North Sea days after the satellite Sputnik was launched, Dreams of Space has a beautifully muted color palette and the bitter-sweet humor and considerate touch that is a defining feature of Russian film. Victor mimics the English he hears on Gherman’s transistor radio and its very hard not to smile and love this guy. Victor, Gherman, Lara and her sister Rimma (Yelena Lyadova) double date, switch partners and even that somehow doesn’t seem so bad. Part buddy picture, part melodrama and part romantic comedy, Dreams of Space is warm, sentimental and visually engaging.

And the answer is ...

These beauties took up residence atop a theater built in 1929 on the corner of Seventh and Olive, for most of it's sixty-one years known as the 7th Avenue and later the Music Hall.

Well, I thought is was pretty cool.