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a not so traditional family (Film: Shoplifters – Hirokazu Koreeda, 2018)

Posted on February 25, 2019 by admin

‘Shoplifters‘ by Japanese director Hirokazu Koreeda confuses its audiences for much of the length of the film. For about three quarters of the duration of the screening, it looks like we are dealing with a family drama that takes place … Continue reading →

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neo-realism meets magic realism (Film: Lazzaro felice – Alice Rohrwacher, 2018)

Posted on February 23, 2019 by admin

From time to time, once every few years, comes a movie that does not look like anything I’ve seen before as a passionate cinema fan. It’s what’s going on with ‘Lazarro felice‘, the film made by the Italian director Alice … Continue reading →

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goodbye Mr. Hopper, goodbye Mr. Ganz (Film: The American Friend – Wim Wenders, 1977)

Posted on February 21, 2019 by admin

Both of them were formidable actors. Dennis Hopper left us in 2010. Bruno Ganz followed him a few days ago. Coincidentally, the retrospective of Wim Wenders‘ films at our local cinematheque featured the wonderful film ‘The American Friend‘, which brought … Continue reading →

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surrealist dystopia (Film: The Lobster – Yorgos Lanthimos, 2015)

Posted on February 20, 2019 by admin

After seeing ‘The Lobster‘ I have no doubt that Yorgos Lanthimos is one of the most remarkable film directors living and creating today. Each of his films shocks and disturbs, in each one there are copious doses of absurdity and … Continue reading →

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music, friendship and prejudice (Film: Green Book – Viggo Mortensen, Mahershala Ali, 2018)

Posted on February 19, 2019 by admin

‘Green Book‘ seems to have been designed according to a recipe for winning Academy Awards. The subject is historic but with reverberations in current politics and the approach is in tune with the mood at Hollywood. It addresses one of … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Pionierii imaginilor mișcătoare

Posted on February 19, 2019 by admin

Cinematograful este una dintre pasiunile mele, și am șansa să locuiesc într-un oraș binecuvântat cu o cinematecă. Povestea acestei instituții începe cu vreo zece ani în urmă. Ca în multe alte orașe ale lumii, vechile săli de cinematograf (erau trei … Continue reading →

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traveling the world, traveling the mind (documentary: Sans Soleil – Chris Marker, 1983)

Posted on February 16, 2019 by admin

‘Sans Soleil‘ is a movie that is hard to fit in any category, same as its director Chris Marker (1921 – 2012) was a cinematic persona hard to characterize or place into a single shelve of the French film history. … Continue reading →

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the final cuts (documentary: Matisse Live – Phil Grabsky, 2014)

Posted on February 15, 2019 by admin

The ‘Exhibition on Screen‘ series gave us yesterday the opportunity to watch at the local cinematheque the great exhibition of Matisse’s works in the final decade of his life, organized five years ago by Tate Modern in London and MoMA … Continue reading →

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a cinematographic essay on loneliness (Film: Documenteur – Agnes Varda, 1981)

Posted on February 14, 2019 by admin

‘Documenteur‘ is an interesting essay, but not one of the milestones in the filmography of Agnès Varda. The film follows a French woman, just out of a relationship, looking for housing and than living for a while in a non-proviledged … Continue reading →

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a laughing punch in the face (Film: Johnny English Strikes Again – Rowan Atkinson, 2018)

Posted on February 13, 2019 by admin

We live in a divided world. There are two categories of inhabitants of the planet between which there can be no compromise of any kind. There are those who like comedies with Rowan Atkinson (and with Jerry Lewis, Lous de … Continue reading →

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