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becoming a child like all the other (Film: Pinocchio – Matteo Garrone, 2019)

Pinocchio fascinates filmmakers. The first atru to bring to screen Carlo Collodi’s novel took place in 1936, as an animated feature, in Italy, but the first to complete the project were Walt Disney and his colleagues in 1940. Another 20 … Continue reading

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Portret: Beatrice Bernath – work-in-progres

BB sau Betty sau Beatrice Bernath este un fenomen. Cei care o cunosc în persoană nu pot scăpa de farmecul și prezența ei magnetică. Cei care îi cunosc întâi doar cărțile sau doar picturile se află la începutul unei explorări … Continue reading

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it could have been a masterpiece (film: The Lady from Shanghai – Orson Welles, 1947)

‘The Lady from Shanghai‘ (filmed in 1946 and released in 1947) is considered by some movie critics and historians, and by many film art lovers as a masterpiece. Revisited today, we can find in it many exceptional moments of cinema … Continue reading

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before The Godfather was The Clan (film: Le clan des siciliens – Henri Verneuil, 1969)

Half a century after its making of ‘Le clan des siciliens‘ (English title – ‘The Sicilian Clan’ – a 1969 production) remains in my opinion one of the best mob films ever made. Of course, the casting of Jean Gabin, … Continue reading

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the fascinating Rita (film: Gilda – Rita Hayworth, 1946)

‘Gilda‘ was one of the great hits of the 1946 film year. It was screened at the first Cannes Film Festival and even had an atomic bomb named after it (or after it, to be exact). The director of the … Continue reading

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CHANGE.WORLD: Zborul spre Lună al lui Fritz Lang

Călătoriile spre Lună se află în aceste săptămâni în centrul atenției. Pare paradoxal, dacă ținem cont de faptul că întreaga planetă este confruntată cu pandemia produsă de virusul COVID-19, dar probabil că nu ar trebui să ne mirăm așa de … Continue reading

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Coco before Chanel, Audrey after Amelie (film: Coco avant Chanel – Audrey Tautou, 2009)

Anne Fontaine‘s film ‘Coco avant Chanel‘ (the English title is ‘Coco Before Chanel‘) has three serious reasons to be a movie that I like. Their names are Audrey Tautou, Benoît Poelvoorde and Emmanuelle Devos. Two actresses and an actor who, … Continue reading

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mid-age crisis of the New Wave (film: Irma Vep – Olivier Assayas, 1996)

Movie about movie making are a cinematic genre that has produced many remarkable creations over time. Filmmakers like to make films about their profession. Many of them are tributes to the great creators of the past, rarer are films that … Continue reading

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the discrete horror of the bourgeoisie (Film: La Fleur du Mal – Claude Chabrol, 2003)

‘La fleur du mal‘ (English title ‘The Flower of Evil‘) made in 2003 by Claude Chabrol opens with a fairly long frame in which the camera takes us from the ground floor to the second floor of a bourgeois villa … Continue reading

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a rediscovered jewel from the French cinema of the 60s (film: La fiancée du pirate / A Very Curious Girl – Nelly Kaplan, 1969)

The life of a cinephile holds surprises and sometimes these surprises are very pleasant. This is the case with the discovery of a film made in 1969 – ‘La fiancée du pirate‘ (in English it was distributed under the title … Continue reading

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