Monthly Archives: April 2022

Serenadă și recviem (carte: Zülfü Livaneli – Serenadă pentru Nadia)

Posted on April 29, 2022 by admin

Zülfü Livaneli, autorul romanului ‘Serenadă pentru Nadia’ pe care editura HUMANITAS FICTION ni l-a propus pentru lectură în 2021 în cadrul colecției ‘Raftul Denisei’, este o personalitate cu totul specială a vieții culturale și a literaturii Turciei contemporane. Născut în … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Fugile timpului

Posted on April 25, 2022 by admin

Limba română pare a fi intuit ceva din teoria relativității prin felul în care și-a definit construcțiile verbale legate de trecerea timpului. Cândva timpul ‘se scurgea’, astăzi el pare ‘să fugă’ sau ‘să zboare’. Toate aceste aceste reprezentări unesc mișcarea … Continue reading →

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Hitchcock’s colorful black comedy (film: The Trouble with Harry – Alfred Hitchcock, 1955)

Posted on April 24, 2022 by admin

‘The Trouble with Harry‘ is an unusual film in Alfred Hitchcock‘s filmography. Writing this introductory phrase, I realize that about half of Hitchcock‘s films can be called ‘unusual’. Of course, there is a ‘canonical Hitchcock’ in which corpses appear, with … Continue reading →

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traps of life (film: Fish Tank – Andrea Arnold, 2009)

Posted on April 19, 2022 by admin

‘Fish Tank‘, written and directed in 2009 by Andrea Arnold, is one of the most interesting social films I’ve seen lately. Combining the techniques of fiction and documentary films, it owes its freshness and sincerity to the fact that it … Continue reading →

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troubled motherhoods (film: The Lost Daughter – Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2021)

Posted on April 18, 2022 by admin

Maggie Gyllenhaal, an actress that I really like, now joins the respectable gallery of actors who pass on the other side of the camera and become directors. I am even happier to see that her debut film, both as a … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Energie fără baterie

Posted on April 18, 2022 by admin

Războiul din Ucraina vecină și consecințele sale, inclusiv asupra comunicațiilor și activităților științifice deschide revista evenimentelor ultimelor săptămâni. Vom mai discuta în articolul de astăzi al rubricii CHANGE.WORLD despre Elon Musk care își continuă activitățile atât pe Pământ (cu achiziția … Continue reading →

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small is the future (film: Downsizing – Alexander Payne, 2017)

Posted on April 16, 2022 by admin

Whenever I have a hard time to categorize a film in a certain genre, the reasons can be very good or very bad. Sometimes it’s one of those original and inventive films that escapes the patterns imposed by film critics. … Continue reading →

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history lesson (film: Le souper – Edouard Molinaro, 1992)

Posted on April 15, 2022 by admin

Who makes the history? How, when and where are made the great decisions that decide the fate of countries, nations, individuals? These questions, which historians and philosophers have asked and debated fiercely for centuries, are elegantly answered in ‘Le souper‘, … Continue reading →

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an undeserved rehabilitation (film: The Exception – David Leveaux, 2016)

Posted on April 14, 2022 by admin

‘The Exception‘, the 2016 late debut and by now the only feature film ever made by theater director David Leveaux, is based on a novel written by Alan Judd, whose hero is Wilhelm II, the dethroned kaiser of Germany, in … Continue reading →

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flying low (film: The Batman – Matt Reeves, 2022)

Posted on April 9, 2022 by admin

I’m not a fan of movies inspired by comics. The Marvel universe and the other parallel imaginary universes do not overwhelm or concern me. I use to judge movies as they are, and I believe that any cinematic genre provides … Continue reading →

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