Monthly Archives: August 2020

CHANGE.WORLD: Maturitatea unui gigant

Posted on August 31, 2020 by admin

Paralelismele dintre ciclurile de dezvoltare ale firmelor hi-tech și ciclurile de viață biologice sunt tentante, însă de multe ori înșelătoare. Diversitatea este regulă și în viața economică, și în lumea vie. La fel cum în natură există organisme efemere, cu … Continue reading →

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the testimony of Mr. Laszlo Nussbaum (documentary : Nussbaum 95732 – Laszlo Csibi, 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by admin

The opening sequence of the documentary – testimony that director László Csibi dedicated to Laszlo Nussbaum, one of the last Holocaust survivors living in the city of Cluj in Romania today, reminded me of my first encounter at Buchenwald with … Continue reading →

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Mărturia Domnului Nussbaum (documentar: Nussbaum 95736 – Laszlo Csibi, 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by admin

Secvența care deschide documentarul – mărturie pe care regizorul László Csibi l-a dedicat lui Laszlo Nussbaum, unul dintre ultimii martori supraviețuitori ai Holocaustului care trăiesc astăzi în Cluj, mi-a amintit prima mea întâlnire la Buchenwald cu unul dintre locurile cumplite … Continue reading →

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the writer and his muse (film: Mr & Mme Adelman – Nicolas Bedos, 2017)

Posted on August 29, 2020 by admin

In March, I was looking forward to seeing ‘La Belle Époque‘, the second and latest film by French director Nicolas Bedos, which was due to hit our local screens just in the week when the world stopped and cinemas closed. … Continue reading →

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a job well done (film: Den of Thieves – Christian Gudegast, 2018)

Posted on August 28, 2020 by admin

‘Den of Thieves‘ belongs to the category of action movies that I like for two reasons: it’s well done and it doesn’t pretend to be anything else. From the first scene to the end, the film with which Christian Gudegast … Continue reading →

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closer to King than to Kubrick (film: Doctor Sleep – Mike Flanagan, 2019)

Posted on August 27, 2020 by admin

‘Doctor Sleep‘, written and directed by Mike Flanagan in 2019 is a ‘sequel’. It takes, I think, a significant dose of audacity (not to say chutzpah) to make a sequel to one of the most famous and best-made horror thrillers … Continue reading →

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a ‘noir’ thriller in the Paris of the 60s (film: La denonciation – Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1962)

Posted on August 25, 2020 by admin

‘La denonciation‘ (‘The Denunciation’, a title terribly translated into English as ‘The Immoral Moment‘) begins and ends with two scenes taking place on the streets of Paris. I will not tell anything about their content, because it is a ‘noir’ … Continue reading →

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a beautiful finale (film: Visages villages – Agnès Varda, 2017)

Posted on August 22, 2020 by admin

“Visages villages” (the English title is “Faces Places“) is the last big screen film directed in 2017 by Agnès Varda in collaboration with photographer and mural artist JR. Until her death in 2019, she would make another TV movie dedicated … Continue reading →

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o perspectiva alternativa a istoriei (carte: Vasile Ernu – Sectantii)

Posted on August 21, 2020 by admin

Vasile Ernu nu lasă mai pe nimeni indiferent, fie că este vorba despre literatură, publicistică sau luări de poziții în interviuri sau mediile sociale. ‘Născut în URSS’ cum spune și titlul premiatei sale cărți de debut apărută într-o prima ediție … Continue reading →

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the profile of a murderess (film: Violette Nozière – Claude Chabrol, 1978)