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CHANGE.WORLD: Roboții și misiunile lor imposibile

Posted on March 23, 2020 by admin

Evenimentele legate de noul corona-virus, care se succed într-un ritm năucitor în ultimele săptămâni, au adus în atenție câteva realizări tehnologice folosite în lupta împotriva pandemiei care bântuie lumea, și cred că este o ocazie bună să le cunoaștem, să … Continue reading →

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a jewel behind the Iron Curtain (Film: Horí, má panenko / The Firemen’s Ball – Milos Forman, 1967)

Posted on March 21, 2020 by admin

‘The Firemen’s Ball‘ (the Czech title is ‘Horí, má panenko‘ – ‘Fire, my doll!’), the last film made in Czechoslovakia by Milos Forman in 1967, before the ‘spring of Prague’ and the exile that moved his career to the West, … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Un virus care îmbolnăvește planeta

Posted on March 16, 2020 by admin

Ce început de deceniu! Cine își imagina acum doar două luni și ceva, când sărbătoream Revelionul, că anii ’20 ai secolului 21 vor începe cu o asemenea zguduire de proporții? Prognozele economice, pensiile și economiile personale (cei care le au), … Continue reading →

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dead-end love (Film: Série noire – Alain Corneau, 1979)

Posted on March 14, 2020 by admin

‘Série noire‘ released on screen in 1979 is part of the gangster movie series that Alain Corneau made in the first decade of his directorial and screenwriting career. It is the French adaptation of a novel by Jim Thompson, co-writer … Continue reading →

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animated realism (film: Tehran Taboo – Ali Soozandeh, 2017)

Posted on March 13, 2020 by admin

‘Tehran Taboo‘ is a film that could not have been made in Iran today. Its creator, film director and animator Ali Soozandeh lives in exile, and the film was made in Germany and Austria in 2017. The action takes place … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Exploratoarele Spațiului

Posted on March 10, 2020 by admin

Ne aflăm cândva, pe la mijlocul anilor ’30 ai secolului nostru, să zicem în 2036. Prima expediție cu echipaj uman a ajuns pe planeta Marte. Întreaga populație a Terrei urmărește în direct transmisia istorică a primilor pași ai omenirii pe … Continue reading →

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film noir pre-Nouvelle Vague (Film: Bob le Flambeur – Jean-Pierre Melville, 1956)

Posted on March 9, 2020 by admin

Crime dramas and gangster stories became one of the most successful genres of American cinema during World War II and in the years that followed. In France, American movies had been banned during the German occupation, which only accentuated the … Continue reading →

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emigration and family melodrama (Film: The Farewell – Lulu Wang, 2019)

Posted on March 7, 2020 by admin

I’m not a big fan of melodramas, but there are themes for which the genre of melodrama is very appropriate. In ‘The Farewell‘, written and directed by Lulu Wang we find some of them. It is the director’s second feature … Continue reading →

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the philosopher and the generals (film: While at War / Mientras dure la guerra – Alejandro Amenábar, 2019)

Posted on March 6, 2020 by admin

The Spanish Civil War was one of the first intensely publicized armed conflicts, and it inspired numerous fictional and fictional stories, some of them written and published even during the events, between 1936 and 1939. ‘While at War‘ (the title … Continue reading →

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roots of evil (Film: Coup de Grâce – Volker Schlöndorff, 1976)

Posted on March 5, 2020 by admin

‘Coup de Grâce‘ by the German director Volker Schlöndorff owes its title in French to the fact that it adapts for the screen the novel with the same name of the French writer Marguerite Yourcenar. The German title is ‘Der … Continue reading →

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