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stir-fry in the sauna (Film: Mestari Cheng – Mika Kaurismäki, 2019)

Posted on November 15, 2019 by admin

‘Mestari Cheng‘, the film of the Finnish director Mika Kaurismäki (yes, his brother …), which opened last night at the local cinematheque the Nordic film festival, is one of those films for which as a spectator you cannot refrain from … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Imersați în artă

Posted on November 13, 2019 by admin

Am abordat în câteva rânduri în cadrul rubricii CHANGE.WORLD subiecte legate de realitatea virtuală (VR – Virtual Reality) și realitatea extinsă (AR – Augmented Reality). Este un domeniu tehnologic în plină dezvoltare, atât din punctul de vedere al aparaturii, cât … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Istoria, prezentul și viitorul aerului condiționat

Posted on November 5, 2019 by admin

Locuiesc într-o țară aflată pe țărmul Mediteranei și la marginea unuia dintre cele mai aride și mai fierbinți deșerturi ale lumii. În timpul lunilor de vară, din iunie până în septembrie, soarele strălucește aproape permanent, ploile sunt evenimente cu totul … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD – Premianții – ediția 2019

Posted on October 29, 2019 by admin

Ca în fiecare an pe vremea asta, voi trece în revistă, pentru rubrica CHANGE.WORLD, lista premianților Nobel și voi încerca să descriu pe scurt realizările pentru care li s-au atribuit premiile. Desigur, mă voi concentra asupra premiilor legate de științe … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Știința somnului

Posted on October 22, 2019 by admin

Aristotel a considerat subiectul destul de important, pentru a scrie în anul 350 î.e.n. un eseu despre ‘Somn și Insomnie’.  Michelangelo Buonarroti i-a dedicat un poem: ‘Mi-e somnul preţios şi-mi pare bine că piatră sunt şi-am simţuri adormite cât timp … Continue reading →

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nasty times (Film: Flesh + Blood – Paul Verhoeven, 1985)

Posted on October 21, 2019 by admin

Paul Verhoeven‘s films leave indifferent few of the spectators who dare to watch them. The combination of violence and eroticism that characterizes them has been around for 40 years and is a mark of most of the Dutch director’s films. … Continue reading →

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melodic drama (film: Judy – Renée Zellweger, 2019)

Posted on October 19, 2019 by admin

There is in ‘Judy‘, the film directed by Rupert Goold, a scene that could be worth an Oscar. Renée Zellweger who plays a Judy Garland beyond the peak of her artistic career, prematurely aged and overwhelmed with personal problems, climbs … Continue reading →

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surprising Renoir (documentary: Exhibition on Screen: Renoir – Reviled and Revered – Phil Grabsky, 2016)

Posted on October 18, 2019 by admin

We have the chance to see the films from the ‘Exhibition on Screen’ series at our local cinematheque. Yesterday we had the pleasure not only of watching the documentary ‘Exhibition on Screen: Renoir – Reviled and Revered‘, but also of … Continue reading →

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camera passion (Film: Amator – Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1979)

Posted on October 16, 2019 by admin

Political scientists and historians have been debating for four decades why Poland was the first country in Eastern Europe to begin the process of breaking away from the communist bloc. The first of these causes, quite rightly, is the ascension … Continue reading →

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a dark Joker (Film: Joker – Joaquin Phoenix, 2019)

Posted on October 15, 2019 by admin

Todd Phillips‘ ‘Joker‘ surprised me. It was something completely different than what I expected from watching the trailers and reading the reviews written by those who saw the film before me. Apparently the film would belong to a genre that … Continue reading →

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