Monthly Archives: August 2019

Paul Verhoeven about the black times (Film: Zwartboek / Black Book – Paul Verhoeven, 2006)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven and Quentin Tarantino belong to a separate category of directors. Their films loaded with violence and in the case of Verhoeven and eroticism, both explicit and extreme to the conventional tastes, risk calculated and intentionally attracting the public … Continue reading →

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Viii și morții (Carte: Ahmed Saadawi – Frankenstein în Bagdad)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

Irakul se află de mai multe decenii în centrul atenției comentatorilor politici și a presei internaționale, și imaginea pe care o avem despre această țară este departe de a fi pozitivă. Hibridul statal născut cu un secol în urmă din … Continue reading →

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Tarantino and Hollywood hit back (film: Once Upon the Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

Posted on August 22, 2019 by admin

What do Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar have in common? A lot, of course. First of all, both are among the most important film directors of the generation with which we have the chance to be contemporaries. Each of them … Continue reading →

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young Frankenstein, mature Mel Brooks (Film: Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks, 1974)

Posted on August 21, 2019 by admin

‘Crazy Movies Club’ is the name of the cycle in which our local cinema included Mel Brooks‘ ‘ Young Frankenstein ‘. I think it’s a very appropriate setting for the Brooklyn-born comedy creator’s personality, though this movie is one of … Continue reading →

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when citizens take arms (Film: Teroristka – Radek Bajgar, 2019)

Posted on August 18, 2019 by admin

The local cinema offers us each year a meeting with Czech cinema in a week that combines films from the Czechoslovak film school of the 1960s with movies recently produced in the Czech Republic. From this year’s selection I chose … Continue reading →

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like being there … or better (Documentary: Exhibition on Screen: David Hockney at the Royal Academy of Arts – Phil Grabsky, 2017)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by admin

Often, when we want to tell or write appreciatively about an art documentary film that describes an exhibition or a museum, we use the expression – ‘watching the film is similar / second best to the experience of visiting the … Continue reading →

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genetică si istorie (carte: Christine Kenneally – Povestea secretă a speciei umane)

Posted on August 16, 2019 by admin

Autoarea cărții ‘Povestea secretă a speciei umane – Cum ne sunt modelate identitatea și viitorul de ADN și de istorie’ publicată în 2014 și apărută la noi în 2019 la Editura Humanitas este ziarista  Christine Kenneally. Născută în Australia în … Continue reading →

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2 cops in love (Film: Chungking Express – Kar-Wai Wong, 1994)

Posted on August 15, 2019 by admin

Hong Kong is the focus of the news these days, and that was another reason to be very curious to see ‘Chungking Express‘, a film made in 1994, a few years before the start of the process in which Hong … Continue reading →

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a great gospel concert (Film: Amazing Grace – Aretha Franklin, 2018)

Posted on August 13, 2019 by admin

In January 1972, Aretha Franklin gave two concerts on two consecutive days at a Baptist church in Los Angeles. The 29-year-old soul and R&B singer had already gained worldwide fame and the unofficial crown of Queen of Soul Music. In … Continue reading →

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verbose and predictable (Film: Late Night – Emma Thompson, 2019)

Posted on August 10, 2019 by admin

Night time TV shows are an American invention, brought to the level of art by the likes of Ed Sullivan, Johnny Carson, Jay Leno, David Letterman. This is also a very masculine world, there almost were no presenters of such … Continue reading →

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