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CHANGE.WORLD: Kurt Vonnegut – SF sau contracultură?

Posted on September 17, 2019 by admin

Care sunt frontierele genurilor literare și cinematografice? Dar cele dintre ‘cultura înaltă’ (traducând literal arogantul Hochkultur din limba germană) și cultura populară? Unul dintre exemplele cele mai interesante într-o asemenea dezbatere mi-a fost reamintit de vizionarea filmului ‘Slaughterhouse-Five’ (‘Abatorul cinci’), … Continue reading →

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the unbelievable past (Documentary: Utopia impusa – Marius Barna, 2010)

Posted on September 15, 2019 by admin

The documentary film ‘Utopia impusa‘ (‘The Imposed Utopia’) was made in 2009. That was the year of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Romania, and screenwriter Lucian Dan Teodorovici and director Marius Barna felt the … Continue reading →

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Leonardo, the painter (Film: Leonardo Live – Phil Grabsky, 2012)

Posted on September 13, 2019 by admin

I saw last night at the local cinematheque one of the oldest art documentaries of the series ‘Exhibition on Screen’, dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings and made in 2012 by Phil Grabsky, on the occasion of the exhibition that … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Inventatoarea – Goana după sânge în Valea Siliciului

Posted on September 9, 2019 by admin

Am scris de mai multe ori în ultimii câțiva ani despre Elizabeth Holmes. La 35 de ani a avut deja timp să trăiască atâtea evenimente câte alții adună în zece biografii. A fost considerată una dintre cele mai promițătoare nume … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Încă o vară fierbinte

Posted on September 2, 2019 by admin

Cine își mai amintește de serialul de televiziune american ‘Lunga vară fierbinte’? Acțiunea se petrecea undeva prin sudul pârjolit de soare al Statelor Unite, prin anii 1940, și era inspirată de un roman și de povestiri ale lui William Faulkner, … Continue reading →

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Paul Verhoeven about the black times (Film: Zwartboek / Black Book – Paul Verhoeven, 2006)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven and Quentin Tarantino belong to a separate category of directors. Their films loaded with violence and in the case of Verhoeven and eroticism, both explicit and extreme to the conventional tastes, risk calculated and intentionally attracting the public … Continue reading →

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Viii și morții (Carte: Ahmed Saadawi – Frankenstein în Bagdad)

Posted on August 30, 2019 by admin

Irakul se află de mai multe decenii în centrul atenției comentatorilor politici și a presei internaționale, și imaginea pe care o avem despre această țară este departe de a fi pozitivă. Hibridul statal născut cu un secol în urmă din … Continue reading →

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Tarantino and Hollywood hit back (film: Once Upon the Time in Hollywood – Quentin Tarantino, 2019)

Posted on August 22, 2019 by admin

What do Quentin Tarantino and Pedro Almodóvar have in common? A lot, of course. First of all, both are among the most important film directors of the generation with which we have the chance to be contemporaries. Each of them … Continue reading →

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young Frankenstein, mature Mel Brooks (Film: Young Frankenstein – Mel Brooks, 1974)

Posted on August 21, 2019 by admin

‘Crazy Movies Club’ is the name of the cycle in which our local cinema included Mel Brooks‘ ‘ Young Frankenstein ‘. I think it’s a very appropriate setting for the Brooklyn-born comedy creator’s personality, though this movie is one of … Continue reading →

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when citizens take arms (Film: Teroristka – Radek Bajgar, 2019)

Posted on August 18, 2019 by admin

The local cinema offers us each year a meeting with Czech cinema in a week that combines films from the Czechoslovak film school of the 1960s with movies recently produced in the Czech Republic. From this year’s selection I chose … Continue reading →

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