Monthly Archives: February 2021

triangular love (film: César et Rosalie – Claude Sautet, 1972)

‘Cesar et Rosalie‘, the title of the 1972 movie by French film director Claude Sautet, can easily be misleading. It is not a simple love story, or rather it is not a single love story, but two. In other words, … Continue reading

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six facets of Bob Dylan (film: I’m Not There – Todd Haynes, 2007)

Somehow, I managed to miss the opportunity to see ‘I’m Not There‘, the film that Todd Haynes made about Bob Dylan, when it was released on screens in 2007. It’s been 14 years since this very unusual film was made. … Continue reading

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CHANGE.WORLD: Vizitatori buni, vizitatori răi

Cu doar vreo patru secole în urmă, a susține că Pământul nu este centrul Universului era un păcat pedepsit cu excomunicarea și o crimă pentru care se putea ajunge la eșafod sau la rug. Ideea că spațiul cosmic este infinit … Continue reading

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the story of the man who won for Orson Welles the only true Academy Award of his career (film: Mank – David Fincher, 2020)

Hollywood loves to make films about Hollywood, and to turn the stars of the past into the heroes of contemporary films, even at the risk of producing revisionist versions of the history of the seventh art. ‘Mank‘ released in 2020 … Continue reading

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Isabelle and Gerard (film: Valley of Love – Guillome Nicloux, 2015)

‘Valley of Love‘, the film written and made in 2015 by Guillaume Nicloux brings Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert together on screen. These two formidable French actors had never acted together for 35 years in a film. In the meantime … Continue reading

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saga and melodrama (film: La meglio gioventù – Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)

One of the great joys of a cinephile is the discovery of a formidable film made by a hitherto unknown director. Of course, it’s the cinephile’s problem, that is, mine, if I haven’t known the name of Italian director Marco … Continue reading

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Vieți paralele (carte: Matt Haig – Biblioteca de la Miezul Nopții)

Cititorii romanului lui Matt Haig ‘Biblioteca de la Miezul Nopții’ (apărut în 2020 la Editura Nemira în traducerea Cristinei Nan) vor face imediat asocierea intre formidabila metaforă care se află în miezul cărții și cealaltă bibliotecă celebră din literatura lumii, … Continue reading

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‘Reconstituirea’, 51 Years After (film: Reconstituirea – Lucian Pintilie, 1968)

Watching Lucian Pintilie‘s ‘Reconstituirea‘, filmed in 1968 and distributed in 1970, is for me a reunion with this film, after 51 years. I was, in 1970, among the lucky cinephiles in Romania who got to see the film at the … Continue reading

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CHANGE.WORLD – Visul lui Diderot

Sunt multe șanse ca zilele de 12, 13 și 15 ianuarie 2021 să fi trecut fără ca dumneavoastră și mulți alții dintre cetățenii planetei cu acces la Internet să fi marcat o aniversare importantă. Nu au fost deschise sticle de … Continue reading

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