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Johnny O is currently touring across 2 countries and has 8 upcoming concerts.

Their next tour date is at Grand Park in Los Angeles (LA), after that they'll be at Grand Park Los Angeles in Los Angeles (LA).

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Juan Oritz, aka. Johnny O is an artist I’ve been following for some time, after hearing a single from his self titled album on the radio some years ago. Since then, I’ve listened to all of his back catalogue of music, and have become a huge fan. I was super excited to see him in concert, and I’d heard some exciting things about the performances he gives. I must say, I was not at all disappointed, and if anything, he completely exceeded me expectations with the show he put on.

He opened with his famous track Fantasy Girl from the debut album, and got everyone singing and dancing along right from the start by shouting out ‘come on everybody, put your hands in the air’. Of course he’s got an incredible voice, but his dancing was off the scale, I had no idea that he could move the way that he did. He totally commanded the stage from start to finish, and did some incredible dance moves.

He played a great selection of his music, new and old, and even picked someone from the crowd to go up on stage with him when he played Highways of Love, which was an awesome touch to the show.

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Johnny O’Reilly is the Irish director behind the new Russian language film ‘Moscow Never Sleeps’. Having studied Russian and Classics and Trinity College, O’Reilly Worked as a journalist in Russia and Ireland before starting out as a filmmaker in 1996.

What was the attraction for an Irish director to make a Russian film set in Moscow?

Moscow’s a fantastic city, full of excitement, dynamism and contrast. It’s the biggest city in Europe and most people know nothing about it. With its hulking Soviet blocks, massive gridlocked avenues and beautiful parks, the place is stunning. However, it’s the people who are the biggest attraction for me. There’s a lot of cruelty and suffering in the lives of Russians. But there’s also a lot of soul.

How did you approach the Irish Film Board with your Russian story?

I went through the standard application procedure for any Irish film and received support from them throughout the whole process. Their financial support amounted to only about 10% of the budget, but their moral and logistical support was hugely important. It’s a film set in Russia, but all the main creative elements were Irish and all post-production took place in Ireland, so it easily fit their remit.

The film was beautifully shot, bringing Moscow to life in many different aspects. Did the two of you make a conscious choice to avoid showing picture-postcard Moscow?

Yes, we did. The film itself is an attempt to subvert Western stereotypes about Russian people by showing them in all their natural complexities, so I felt that we had to get away from iconic imagery that reinforced those stereotypes. Besides, everyone around the world knows Red Square and the Kremlin, but most Muscovites pass by them without a second glance.

What’s the reaction to the film been like from Russian critics and audiences?

The reaction was amazing. Many people loved it, but there was a minority who resented the depiction of Russians in the film. Mainstream opinion in the Russian media is currently skewed in support of a myopic government cultural policy which advocates nationalism and the glorification of Russian culture. So, the idea of a foreigner making a film about Russian that did not subscribe to this considered to be a provocation by some media commentators. The Liberals tended to support the film but the nationalists thought it was an attack on the Russian soul. And I was just delighted to be part of the conversation.

What would you like Irish audiences to take from the film? Do you see parallels with modern Dublin city life too? Moscow and Dublin are very different cities, but there are parallels to the extent that all people essentially share the same fundamental hopes, dreams and fears. I want Irish audiences to sympathize with the characters in the film and to recognize themselves in them. While the setting of the film is specific, the stories are universal and I hope that they will engage and resonate with Irish audiences.

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There may well be a whole section of the Muscovite elite that feels like punching the air, or perhaps clinking champagne glasses, in triumph at the end of Johnny O’Reilly’s “Moscow Never Sleeps,” a fleet-footed skitter of loosely interconnected storylines unfolding across the Russian capital over the course of one day. It’s not often, after all, that we get such a fresh-faced look at a city that foreign art house and festival devotees know better from the laceratingly critical work of brilliant doom-meister Andrey Zvyagintsev, among others. But with something of the zeal of the convert, Dubliner O’Reilly, who lived in Moscow for a decade, presents his low-cal-Altman stories of life, love, death and catharsis against a backdrop that gleams with modernity. Even when the location is a run-down, poky apartment full of old-lady tchotchkes and clashing-print furniture covers, Fëdor Lyass’ crisp, sleek photography confers a high-def elegance on the frame. But this glittery, helicopter vision of Moscow comes at some expense: The various story currents move swiftly but don’t run particularly deep, so the film works better as a kind of best-foot-forward overview of modern urban Russia — “Moscow, I Love You” — than it does as a multi-stranded human drama.

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O’Reilly also wrote the screenplay for the film, which is his third directorial outing after collective filmmaking experiment “Co/Ma” and Siberia-set thriller “The Weather Station.” Within it he is clearly at pains to present a slice of life that is as cross-sectional as possible. This leads to incidental rather than particularly insightful connections — the unlikely heroes of one storyline are the swiftly dispatched villains of another — but then, perhaps the social stratification of Moscow is such that the upper echelons would seldom find reason to commingle with the lower without some stroke of coincidence or fate intervening. In any case, the film’s virtues are its economy and the breadth of its ensemble, meaning we never spend enough time with any one set of people to get impatient with them, nor even to worry that they are archetypes rather than flesh-and-blood characters.

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Set during the 24 hours of Moscow’s City Day celebrations, the film’s various strands are collected around two families, and each will experience a death before the day is through. The powerful class is represented by Anton (Alexey Serebryakov, the craggy star of Zvyagintsev’s “Leviathan”), a wealthy businessman being outmaneuvered on a development deal, who is married to trophy wife and aspiring pop singer Katya (Evgenia Brik). Katya, however is being stalked by her ex-lover Ilya (Oleg Dolin) who is the son of well-known celebrity comedian Valery (Yuri Stoyanov), who wakes up in the film’s opening scene in a gleaming hospital he mistakes for the afterlife. Valery, who has had a wife and a mistress on the go for many years, is given only a few weeks to live and resolves to spend at least some of them drinking. Having given his nurses the slip, however, he is immediately spotted by local chancer Arto (Rustam Akhmadeyev) and his gang, who decide to kidnap the TV personality for kicks.

The second, lower-status family is that of aging, practically mute grandmother Vera (Tamara Spiricheva), who is being placed in a nursing home by her remorseful grandson and rather less caring son Vladimir (Mikhail Efremov). Vladimir has his own troubles at home: His pretty, sexually provocative teenage daughter, Kcenia (Lubov Aksenova), and his more withdrawn stepdaughter, Lera (Anastasia Shalonko), do not get on (Lera is pining for her biological father). When forced to go out together that night, the two girls end up in the same club as Arto, and thus the tenuous link between the two spheres is established.

“Moscow Never Sleeps” is engaging, but there are only a few occasions when it feels genuinely inspired. A slow-mo montage set to a melodic piano motif within Roman Litvnov’s pleasant score comes closest to the kind of choral effect achieved in O’Reilly’s obvious touch point, Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Magnolia.” And some of the vignettes brush against challenging questions of how traditional Russian values of familial duty and loyalty can possibly synthesize with the demands of the modern urban lifestyle. But refreshing as it is to see a vision of Moscow so unusually unencumbered by social critique or political allegory, mostly the absence of that subtext gives “Moscow Never Sleeps” its brittle, surface-level feel.

“New York is overrated,” Ilya tells Katya at one point. “You think Moscow is so much better?” replies Katya. “Yes” is the simple reply, and it sounds like the film’s manifesto: Moscow deserves to be considered alongside the great cities of the world in terms of cosmopolitan sophistication. Couched in fine performances and slick filmmaking, the film just about persuades, but with a city, rather than any of its inhabitants, the star of the show here, there’s little human resonance. The vast wides of sparkling nighttime streets pulsating with traffic under skies bursting with fireworks are impressive but also prove the impersonal truth that while hearts within might be breaking — or stopping altogether —  life in the impervious city goes on.

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• Production: (Russia-Ireland) A Cavu Pictures release of a Snapshot Productions and AI Films presentation of a Snapshot Films production in association with Blinder Films. (International sales: MonteCristo International, New York.) Producers: Johnny O'Reilly, Katie Holly. Executive producers: Len Blavatnik, Yevgeny Katsenelson, Aviv Giladi. Micky Buyé, Javier Braier. Co-producers: Andrey Zakharov, Jacques Der Megreditchian, Robert Mantse, Daniil Grubman, Michael Workman, Kieron J. Walsh.  
• Crew: Director, writer: Johnny O’Reilly. Camera (color): Fëdor Lyass. Editors: Dermot Diskin, Nico Leunin. Music: Roman Litvnov.
• With: Alexey Serebryakov, Evgenia Brik, Yuri Stoyanov, Mikhail Efremov, Lubov Aksenova, Oleg Dolin, Anastasia Shalonko, Elena Babenko, Tamara Spiricheva, Rustam Akhmadeyev, Elena Safonova, Sergei Belov. (Russian dialogue)

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In this age of distrust and political speculation, sometimes we need to turn to film to set the record straight. If nothing else, movies like Moscow Never Sleeps allow us to step behind the red curtain and see for ourselves what another culture has in store.

The film follows five individuals whose vibrant lives in Moscow intertwine on one fateful day: Moscow City Day. The characters include: an entrepreneur in financial trouble, a teenage girl in search of her father, a terminally ill comedian, a singer caught between two men, and a young man caring for his aging grandmother.

Moscow Never Sleeps opens with sweeping shots of the city, eventually transporting us into the hospital in the opening scene. Each scene feels like being swept up alongside the characters; I felt myself cringing when a group of bumbling imbeciles kidnapped Valeriy, the ailing comedian. And I wanted Vera, the teenage girl, to find her way out of that noxious nightclub. I could literally feel those men’s grimy hands on her skin.

In a separate twist of fate, I got in contact with the publicist of Moscow Never Sleeps , who passed along the following questions to Johnny O’Reilly. Below are Johnny’s answers via email.

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Sophia Cowley For Film Inquiry: Before Moscow Never Sleeps , you wrote and directed the thriller, The Weather Station . How did you make the move from thriller/mystery to drama? 

Johnny O’Reilly :   I like both genres. My short films were mostly dramas. All characters and stories have an emotional structure and integrity. I rarely ever think about genre when I’m writing stories. Of course, they become categorized as such only once they’re completed. Genre is a useful shorthand pigeonhole with which to describe a film, but I don’t have a personal preference for one genre over another.

What inspired the five interwoven narratives? Tell us a bit about your writing process.

Johnny O’Reilly :   I’m a curious person by nature. When I meet people, I tend to want to find out about their lives and personal histories. Russian people live much more extraordinary lives than we do in the West. They need to fight harder in order to survive. There’s more cruelty and compassion there. The country is a well of inspiration for any writer. I started off with a few characters and half ideas gleaned from stories and people I knew in the real world. Once I started writing, the stories developed on their own, guided by my imagination.

Who or what are you greatest influences?

Johnny O’Reilly :   Truth is always stranger than fiction. I’m inspired by real life, by stories I come across about real people and things that I read about in newspapers and books. The writers who have influenced me the most are Tolstoy and Chekhov . Among my favourite filmmakers are Orson Welles , Ingmar Bergman , Mike Nichols ,  Pavel Pavelowsky , Andrey Zvyagintsev .

Throughout the film, there seem to be recurring themes of hyper masculinity and the crossing of personal boundaries. (The girls are literally pushing two guys off of themselves in one scene.) Can you talk a bit about where these ghastly male characters came from?

Johnny O’Reilly :   Russia is a very traditional society. This is particularly true in relationships between men and women. It’s also quite a lawless country. Single mothers for example, have very little recourse in law to obligate men for alimony payments. Rape charges are rarely ever successfully prosecuted. Because of this and many other discriminatory practices, women in Russia are very vulnerable. This means that they have to be very strong to survive. This is reflected in the film. The plight of the 16-year-old Lera, the granny and the abused middle-aged wife in the film reflect both the vulnerabilities and the strength of Russian women.

This film features some pretty beautiful, well-choreographed shots. How did you find funding for Moscow Never Sleeps ? What about distribution?

Johnny O’Reilly : Funding for MNS was a hybrid of European co-production finance and the ancient Russian traditions of patronage. 50% came from Irish and European government subsidies and the other 50% from private Russian financing. Because of some of the film’s provocative subject matter, the Russian Ministry of Culture attempted to suppress the film. We struggled to secure a big Russian distributor but in the end, we managed to release the film on 500 prints with a small indie distributor and received rave reviews in the Russian media.

What are your concerns—if any—about Americans’ reaction to the film?

Johnny O’Reilly : I’m more concerned about reach rather than reaction. It’s hard to grab the attention of a wide audience in the US with a foreign language film. Given the current geo-political dramas, however, we believe there’s a big appetite for a film that shows life behind the curtain in Russia and that now is a good time to release the film.

Thanks to Johnny for the interview! Do you think  Moscow Never Sleeps  will do well in American cinemas, considering the current political drama? Tell us your thoughts in the comments below!

Moscow Never Sleeps made its New York premiere on Friday, June 9th , followed by its LA premiere on June 16th, and Washington D.C. premiere on June 30th. The film will play in select cities across the US over the summer. For more information and for showtimes near you, please visit their website .

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‘moscow never sleeps’: film review.

Irish director Johnny O'Reilly's drama 'Moscow Never Sleeps' concerns the lives of several interconnected characters living in the Russian capital city.

By Frank Scheck

Frank Scheck

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You’ll be booking that dream vacation to Moscow after watching Johnny O’Reilly’s drama depicting the intertwined lives of several denizens of the Russian city. Clearly influenced by the likes of Robert Altman and Paul Thomas Anderson, Moscow Never Sleeps provides a glamorous portrait of its setting courtesy of its non-Russian director, who has clearly taken a shine to it after living there for more than a decade. Although the film’s overstuffed, overpopulated storyline proves only sporadically interesting, it’s notable for at least providing an alternative view of a city more commonly associated with wintry gloom, corruption and heavy drinking. Not that the film doesn’t include at least two of those elements.

The one not showcased is bleak weather, as the story takes place on Moscow’s annual local holiday City Day, held in September. The story’s numerous characters include: Anton ( Alexey Serebryakov , who starred in Leviathan , a far less upbeat film about Moscow), a wealthy businessman who finds his empire threatened by government bureaucrats who want their piece of the pie; his trophy wife Katya ( Evgenia Brik ), a young pop singer whose career he’s working to advance; Katya’s ex-lover Ilya ( Oleg Dolin ), who’s embarked on a relentless campaign to get her back; and Ilya’s father Valery (Yuri Stoyanov ), a famous actor/comedian who juggles a wife and girlfriend and learns he only has a few weeks to live.

The Bottom Line More broad than deep.

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That list doesn’t even include the feuding teenage stepsisters of a lower-class family and the young man agonizing over his decision to put his elderly grandmother in a nursing home. The jumble of storylines inevitably results in narrative confusion, and the relationships linking them, some of which are only revealed late in the proceedings, don’t resonate strongly. And some plot developments — such as when Valery , after fleeing the hospital, gets kidnapped by a gang of teenage louts who claims to be his “fans” — just feel silly.

Still, there’s no denying the filmmaker’s passion for his titular setting, which he presents as a sophisticated, cosmopolitan city filled with gorgeous architecture, a vibrant night life and crowded streets. O’Reilly doesn’t ignore the darker aspects of the Russian capital and the nation’s culture, as illustrated by Valery’s sardonic comment after waking up in the hospital and being informed he’s still very much alive. Or when the government apparatchiks threatening Anton’s business tell him, “You don’t like it, go live in London.”

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Although the performances by the large ensemble wildly vary in quality, there are standout turns by Stoyanov , who captures both the world-weariness and vulgar humor of the burnt-out Valery , and Serebryakov , who is intensely commanding as the businessman embroiled in a fight with the system that he almost certainly can’t win. Their characters provide the high points of this ambitious but uneven portrait of a modern Russia still mired in Soviet-era problems.

Production companies: Snapshot Productions, AI Films, Blinder Films Distributor: Snapshot Productions Cast: Aleksey Serebryakov , Mikhail Efremov , Evgenia Brik , Lubov Aksenova , Elana Babenko , Yurly Stoyanov , Anastasia Shalonko Director-screenwriter: Johnny O’Reilly Producers: Katie Holly, Johnny O’Reilly Executive producers: Len Blavatnik , Yevgeny Katsenelson Director of photography: Fyodor Lyass Editors: Dermot Diskin , Nico Leunen Production designer: Katia Zaletaeva Costume designers: Victoria Bagdanova , Aleksandra Feodosieva Composer: Roman Litvinov

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