Monthly Archives: March 2019

CHANGE.WORLD: O aniversare agitată

Posted on March 26, 2019 by admin

La 11 martie sistemul informatic pe care îl numim World Wide Web a împlinit 30 de ani. Într-unul dintre articolele viitoare ale rubricii CHANGE.WORLD voi prezenta o scurtă retrospectivă istorică a primelor propuneri legate de Internet (care împlinește 50 de … Continue reading →

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istoria țării de la capătul lumii (Carte: Jonathan Clements – A Brief History of Japan)

Posted on March 25, 2019 by admin

Am călătorit deja de trei ori în Japonia și sunt îndrăgostit de această țară. Contactul cu peisajele, oamenii, cultura Japoniei reprezintă pentru orice vizitator european o experiență unică. Din multe puncte de vedere Japonia este opusă țărilor în care am … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: De la Esculap la doctor Apple

Posted on March 19, 2019 by admin

Toate premiile Nobel în disciplinele științifice decernate în anul 2018 au fost legate sub o formă sau alta de cercetări teoretice sau descoperiri din domeniul diagnosticelor și tratamentelor medicale. Medicina cu diferitele sale ramuri se află astăzi în avangarda cercetării … Continue reading →

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the first talkie by Hitchcock is a pleasant surprise (Film: Blackmail – Alfred Hitchcock, 1929)

Posted on March 19, 2019 by admin

‘Blackmail‘, Alfred Hitchcock‘s first ‘talkie’ is a pleasant surprise, a movie that is worth watching and can be seen with the eyes of 2019 viewers, and not just for documentary and historical research purposes. It’s a crime and blackmail story … Continue reading →

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synonyms or false friends? (Film: Synonyms – Nadav Lapid, 2019)

Posted on March 18, 2019 by admin

Nadav Lapid‘s talent as a director and scriptwriter is visible in the excellent scenes that open and conclude his movie ‘Synonyms‘ (‘Milim Nirdafot‘ in Hebrew) Which received the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Yoav, the film’s hero, … Continue reading →

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the proof of fire (film: Sauver ou périr – Pierre Niney, 2018)

Posted on March 17, 2019 by admin

Pierre Niney is one of my favorite French actors at the moment. At age 21 he became the youngest resident actor ever at the Comedie Francaise. In the last few years he has captured the attention of cinema lovers and … Continue reading →

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men in water (Film: Le grand bain – Gilles Lellouche, 2018)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by admin

The very fact of making a movie about men in these years when women’s films are the focus of attention is a proof of originality from the director and co-scriptwriter Gilles Lellouche, better known as an actor and only at … Continue reading →

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portraits and letters (Film: Cézanne, Portraits of a Life – Phil Grabsky, 2018)

Posted on March 15, 2019 by admin

Paul Cezanne’s life can be divided into two very different periods. Born in 1839 in a prosperous family, with a banker father, he chose a life and artistic career very different from the expectations of the bourgeois environment. All his … Continue reading →

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a Hitchcock before Hitchcock (Film: East of Shanghai – Alfred Hitchcock, 1931)

Posted on March 14, 2019 by admin

In the perspective of the almost nine decades elapsed since its filming and launching, ‘Rich and Strange‘ (the English title) a.k.a. ‘East of Shanghai‘ (the American title) is an atypical film in Alfred Hitchcock‘s career. It is one of his … Continue reading →

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better than ‘Green Book’ (film: Roma – Alfonso Cuarón, 2018)

Posted on March 13, 2019 by admin

As I belong to a specie in danger of extinction – those who have not yet subscribed to Netflix -, I had to wait for a rare public screening of Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón‘s film ‘Roma‘, which almost won the … Continue reading →

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