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CHANGE.WORLD: Vizitatori buni, vizitatori răi

Posted on February 8, 2021 by admin

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)

Posted on February 6, 2021 by admin

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)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by admin

‘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)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by admin

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)

Posted on February 2, 2021 by admin

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)

Posted on February 1, 2021 by admin

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

Posted on February 1, 2021 by admin

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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Deneuve and Binoche at their best in a smart and sensible movie by Hirokazu Koreeda (film: La vérité – Hirokazu Koreeda, 2019)

Posted on January 30, 2021 by admin

The presence of Catherine Deneuve or Juliette Binoche in the cast would be reason enough to make me run to see a movie. ‘La vérité‘ (the title in English is ‘The Truth‘) made in 2010 gave me the double opportunity … Continue reading →

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love in dark times (film: Cloudy Sunday – Manousos Manousakis, 2015)

Posted on January 28, 2021 by admin

‘Cloudy Sunday‘, the 2015 film by Greek director Manousos Manousakis is one of those docu-dramas that remain in the memory of the audiences as references for the historical periods in which the stories take place, although they are conceived as … Continue reading →

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when alien encounter meets romantic comedy (film: Starman – John Carpenter, 1984)

Posted on January 27, 2021 by admin

Moviegoers who wish to see how movies depicting extraterrestrial encounters in the 1980s were made can be use the 1984 movie by John Carpenter ‘Starman‘ as a case study. In fact, I should be a little more accurate – it’s … Continue reading →

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