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CHANGE.WORLD: Optimiști, pesimiști și realiști

Posted on January 23, 2018 by admin

Sunt optimist din fire. Nu știu dacă ar trebui să acord meritul sau responsabilitatea acestei trăsături de caracter perioadei în care m-am născut și am fost educat. Era vorba atunci (școala am început-o în anul 1960) despre un optimism ideologic, … Continue reading →

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life and anger in deep America (film: Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri – Martin McDonagh, 2017)

Posted on January 22, 2018 by admin

‘Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri‘ is positioning itself as the main favorite of the Academy Awards season, and if it will win some of the statuettes in the major categories it will be by merit. It is quite interesting that … Continue reading →

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broken city, messy movie (Film: Broken City – Mark Wahlberg, 2013)

Posted on January 21, 2018 by admin

Sometimes telling the idea or describing the synopsis of the film is much clearer than the feeling that we had while viewing it. This is exactly my feeling about Broken City, a political thriller taking place in the days between … Continue reading →

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some of the best private eyes are women (TV Series: Landing on Their Feet – Mili Avital, Shani Cohen, 2017)

Posted on January 19, 2018 by admin

Women can do everything men can do and do most of these better. I am a sincere believer in the (almost) absolute truth of this saying. Applying it to the TV series ‘Landing on Their Feet ‘ (‘Noflot al haRaglayim’) … Continue reading →

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the boring life of ghosts (Film: A Ghost Story – Casey Affleck, 2017)

Posted on January 16, 2018 by admin

I am seldom asking such questions, but now I need to ask it. ‘Why did they do this film?’. Seriously. A film may made because the director or the script writer have one or more messages to transmit. In some … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Început de an

Posted on January 16, 2018 by admin

‘Semne bune anul are’ spune o zicală din bătrâni. Chiar dacă anul 2018 a început cu o săptămână de lucru scurtă în cea mai mare parte a țărilor lumii, aglomerația de știri și anunțuri pare să indice un an agitat … Continue reading →

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good old film making about good old journalism (Film: The Post – Steven Spielberg, 2017)

Posted on January 15, 2018 by admin

Movies about the late 60s or early 70s become more and more epoch films. They describe a time when dollars were kept in boxes to be used by kids ten or fifteen years later and still have some value, when … Continue reading →

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the right to forgive (Film: The Railway Man – Colin Firth, Nicole Kidman, 2013)

Posted on January 11, 2018 by admin

Can the unforgivable be forgiven? What is the right attitude towards perpetrators and collaborators of crimes of war, genocide and torture? Does time really heal? Is revenge the right answer? Is forgiveness possible and who has the right to forgive? … Continue reading →

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Poirot is Back (Film: Murder on the Orient Express – Kenneth Branagh, 2017)

Posted on January 10, 2018 by admin

It’s not easy to adapt Agatha Christie to screen in 2017, and it is even more difficult to take upon ‘Murder on the Orient Express’ which already had a fabulous and stars-blessed version made in 1974 by Sidney Lumet. The … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: 2018 – Anul care va fi

Posted on January 9, 2018 by admin

Lăsând în urmă sărbătorile și șampania Noului An, a venit din nou vremea prorocirilor. Nici anul 2018 nu promite a fi ușor pentru descifratorii viitorului, oricare ar fi metodele lor, de la ceștile de cafea și bilele de cristal, până … Continue reading →

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