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closer to King than to Kubrick (film: Doctor Sleep – Mike Flanagan, 2019)

Posted on August 27, 2020 by admin

‘Doctor Sleep‘, written and directed by Mike Flanagan in 2019 is a ‘sequel’. It takes, I think, a significant dose of audacity (not to say chutzpah) to make a sequel to one of the most famous and best-made horror thrillers … Continue reading →

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a ‘noir’ thriller in the Paris of the 60s (film: La denonciation – Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, 1962)

Posted on August 25, 2020 by admin

‘La denonciation‘ (‘The Denunciation’, a title terribly translated into English as ‘The Immoral Moment‘) begins and ends with two scenes taking place on the streets of Paris. I will not tell anything about their content, because it is a ‘noir’ … Continue reading →

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a beautiful finale (film: Visages villages – Agnès Varda, 2017)

Posted on August 22, 2020 by admin

“Visages villages” (the English title is “Faces Places“) is the last big screen film directed in 2017 by Agnès Varda in collaboration with photographer and mural artist JR. Until her death in 2019, she would make another TV movie dedicated … Continue reading →

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o perspectiva alternativa a istoriei (carte: Vasile Ernu – Sectantii)

Posted on August 21, 2020 by admin

Vasile Ernu nu lasă mai pe nimeni indiferent, fie că este vorba despre literatură, publicistică sau luări de poziții în interviuri sau mediile sociale. ‘Născut în URSS’ cum spune și titlul premiatei sale cărți de debut apărută într-o prima ediție … Continue reading →

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the profile of a murderess (film: Violette Nozière – Claude Chabrol, 1978)

Posted on August 21, 2020 by admin

In 1978, when Claude Chabrol made ‘Violette Noziere’, many people in France remembered very well the criminal case of the woman who gives the film its name. It had been one of the scandalous, passionate, and morbid stories of the … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Semne de viață

Posted on August 17, 2020 by admin

A fost o săptămână dificilă pentru colegii săi de faimă și de inițiative în marile companii din lumea hi-tech. Miercuri, 29 iulie, liderii giganților tehnologici Amazon, Apple, Facebook și Google au trebuit să răspundă întrebărilor foarte incomode și să asculte … Continue reading →

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a Van Gogh like no other (film: Van Gogh – Maurice Pialat, 1991)

Posted on August 15, 2020 by admin

I had the joy of living another one of those events that give beauty to the life of a cinephile. My first encounter with Jacques Dutronc dates about half a century ago when I was listening to the shows on … Continue reading →

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the painter and the writer (Film: Cézanne et moi – Danièle Thompson, 2016)

Posted on August 14, 2020 by admin

Films about the painters of the artistic revolution in France of the last decades of the 19th century have long become a stand-alone cinematic genre. Impressionists and post-impressionists changed the course of art and reinvented the process of artistic creation. … Continue reading →

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L.A. in flames (film: Hotel Artemis – Jodie Foster, 2018)

Posted on August 13, 2020 by admin

There are quite a few reasons why ‘Hotel Artemis‘, the 2018 film by first time director Drew Pearce, would be worth seeing. First of all, the cast, in which Jodie Foster appears for the first time after a five-year break … Continue reading →

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distorted reality (TV series: Losing Alice – Ayelet Zurer, 2020)

Posted on August 12, 2020 by admin

‘Losing Alice‘ (the Hebrew title is ‘L’abed et Alice‘) is a very ambitious Israeli television production, an eight-episode mini-series that bears no resemblance to anything ever produced for the ‘small screens’ in Israel. Apple TV bought this series, together with … Continue reading →

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