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a study in drunkenness (Film: Withnail & I – Bruce Robinson, 1987)

Posted on April 29, 2019 by admin

‘Withnail & I‘ belongs to the category of those films in which I can appreciate many details, artistic and technical aspects, but whose watching is an unpleasant experience for me. It’s been two days since I saw the movie, that … Continue reading →

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Tema Holocaustului în filmul românesc

Posted on April 29, 2019 by admin

Câteva filme foarte vizibile și foarte discutate și disputate în spațiul public ar putea crea impresia că Holocaustul este o tema majoră a cinematografiei românești. Lucrurile nu stau deloc așa. Subiectul a fost aproape complet absent din cinematografia românească a … Continue reading →

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nothing new about Vincent (Film: At Eternity’s Gate – Willem Dafoe, 2018)

Posted on April 28, 2019 by admin

I believe that Vincent van Gogh would have been very pleased if he could get some royalties from the films that were made about him. The “damned” artist of the generation of post-impressionists, the unrecognized genius who did not sell … Continue reading →

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the greatest anti-Impressionist (Film: Degas: Passion for Perfection – David Bickerstaff)

Posted on April 27, 2019 by admin

I had the chance to visit last month the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, a respectable institution, designed as a place of spiritual recollection and of discovery of a selection of treasures of art and civilization, modeled (keeping the proportions) after … Continue reading →

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the greatest dialog about movies ever (Film: Hitchcock/Truffaut – Kent Jones, 2015)

Posted on April 26, 2019 by admin

‘Hitchcock / Truffaut‘ is a movie about a book about movies. And much more. It’s a movie about the book that many of the movie fans (I among them) think of as the best book ever written about movies. A … Continue reading →

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unskilled robbers (Film: Bande à part – Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

Posted on April 25, 2019 by admin

Jean-Luc Godard‘s films belong to a category of movies that are more interesting to talk about than to see. I do not want this statement to sound too pejorative, that’s not the intention, especially because I love the discussions about … Continue reading →

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teze și antiteze din Paris (Carte: George Banu – Scena lumii)

Posted on April 25, 2019 by admin

Nu l-am întâlnit niciodată pe George Banu. Traseul biografiei mele s-a apropiat însă cu vreo 55 de ani în urmă de al dânsului. Eram adolescent și părinții hotărâseră să-mi accelereze integrarea în lumea viitorului cu lecții particulare de engleză, suplimentând … Continue reading →

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surrealistic film noir (Film: Lost Highway – David Lynch, 1997)

Posted on April 24, 2019 by admin

‘Lost Highway‘ belongs to a category of movies that confuses many viewers, thrills many others, generates endless discussions and triggers extreme reactions. Welcome to the universe of most of David Lynch‘s films, a universe in which cinematic story telling and … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Aventura continuă

Posted on April 23, 2019 by admin

Voi încerca în aceste zile încărcate de conflicte, proteste, alegeri și divorțuri politice să schimb direcția gândurilor noastre și să mă ocup, cel puțin in acest articol al rubricii CHANGE.WORLD, de noutățile legate de această aventură a cunoașterii care este … Continue reading →

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a case of bad education (Film: Un pas in urma serafimilor – Daniel Sandu, 2017)

Posted on April 21, 2019 by admin

‘One Step Behind the Seraphim‘, the film that concluded for me the Romanian Film Festival that took place this week in Israel, reminded me Pedro Almodóvar‘s “Bad Education” in many ways. Both films can be seen as recovery exercises from … Continue reading →

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