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CHANGE.WORLD: Intimitatea Artificială

Să discutăm despre unul dintre efectele cele mai vizibile, mai disputate și mai criticate ale aplicațiilor Inteligenței Artificiale (IA): efectul lor asupra relațiilor interumane, de la tovarășii de joacă ai adolescenților până la legăturile romantice ale celor maturi. O carte … Continue reading

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confused and divisive as the world is (film: Eddington – Ari Aster, 2025)

‘Eddington‘, the fourth film by American director Ari Aster, reminded me in many ways of some of Romanian director Radu Jude’s recent films. Made in 2025, the film looks back at the first half of 2020, a period that seems … Continue reading

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a horror menu (film: The Menu – Mark Mylod, 2022)

Food movies lovers are in for a special treat in ‘The Menu‘, the 2022 film by director Mark Mylod. Or, to use the film’s terminology – a very special menu. Food movies have become an extremely popular genre, rivaled perhaps … Continue reading

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CHANGE.WORLD: Gattaca – O distopie genetică

Astăzi vă invit la cinema. Gattaca, titlul filmului din 1997 regizat de Andrew Niccol, este compus din literele folosite pentru a abrevia cele patru baze nucleotidice ale ADN-ului – G, A, T, C, mai precis, cele care identifică markerii genetici: … Continue reading

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endangered species (film: Jurassic World: Rebirth – Gareth Edwards, 2025)

Gareth Edwards, the director of the seventh film in the Jurassic series (‘Jurassic World: Rebirth‘ – 2025) was born in 1975, the year Steven Spielberg directed ‘Jaws’. In the last ten years he has specialized in monster and alien films, … Continue reading

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a piece of life (film: C’mon C’mon – Mike Mills, 2021)

Mike Mills is one of those screenwriters-directors who have a formidable talent for bringing real life, as we know it, to the screen. I noticed this in one of his previous films – ’20th Century Women’ and this opinion was … Continue reading

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Călătorind pe urmele lui Brâncuși (carte: Sorin Trâncă – Drumul lui Constantin)

‘Cine a fost Brâncuși’? Întrebarea aceasta, cred, continuăm să ne-o punem și acum, la 150 de ani de la venirea lui pe lume. Opera sa nu doar că a fost revoluționară și deschizătoare de drumuri la vremea ei. Ea a … Continue reading

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history in style (film: Amsterdam – David O. Russell, 2022)

I confess that ‘Amsterdam‘, the 2022 film by David O. Russell, confused me. The American director, who also writes his scripts, has made several films that I really liked for their stylistic consistency, for the topics related to the American … Continue reading

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CHANGE.WORLD: Ochiul robotului

Articolul de astăzi al rubricii noastre are ca subiect capabilitățile vizuale ale mașinilor automate. Am fost martori în ultimii ani ai unor progrese spectaculoase ale roboticii, care se grupau în două categorii: un salt calitativ enorm în capacitatea de calcul … Continue reading

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Cukor after Hitchcock (film: Gaslight – George Cukor, 1944)

Some American remakes are much better than the original films. There aren’t many, but they do exist. ‘Gaslight‘, filmed in Hollywood in 1944 by George Cukor, is one of them. The film reuses, four years later, the plot of a … Continue reading

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