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The Silk Road of sharing cultures (Film: The Music of Strangers – Yo-Yo Ma, 2015)

Posted on September 3, 2016 by admin

Music documentaries can be fascinating in many cases. This is the case of The Music of Strangers, the documentary produced and directed by Morgan Neville which tells the story of the wonderful musical adventure and inter-culture experience which is ‘The … Continue reading →

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the horror movie that could have been (Film: The Noonday Witch – Jiri Sádek, 2016)

Posted on September 2, 2016 by admin

I know that it’s some kind of an unfair comparison, but so it happens that I have seen Jiri Sádek‘s The Noonday Witch (the original name is Polednice – Midday) at the Czech film festival, and then Pedro Almodóvar‘s Julieta in … Continue reading →

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my first 10/10 in years (Film: Julieta – Pedro Almodovar, 2016)

Posted on September 1, 2016 by admin

I loved ‘Julieta‘. Pedro Almodovar’s 2016 production is one of those films that captivates the viewers during the whole duration of the screening because of the mastering of story telling and by using human emotions. Other directors may do the … Continue reading →

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the team slowly comes together … but is it not too late? (Film: Star Trek Beyond – Justin Lin, 2016)

Posted on August 31, 2016 by admin

It takes time to build mythology. The original Star Trek was a TV show that ran for years and was followed by next and other generations of space-ships, commanders and crews, some of them memorable, other easier to forget. The … Continue reading →

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Woody Allen, edition 2016 (Film: Cafe Society – Woody Allen, 2016)

Posted on August 31, 2016 by admin

There are a few, very few things one can rely on happening every year, since the 1990s. First there is a Christmas – and yes, also a Passover – taking place each year. Then, there is the Woody Allen film … Continue reading →

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Carte: Ian Buruma, Avishai Margalit – Occidentalismul

Posted on August 30, 2016 by admin

Occidentalismul este un termen care a fost ales si in parte definit ca antiteza a Orientalismului in interpretarea descrisa de profesorul palestinian-american Edward Said in cartea cu acest nume publicata in 1978. Desi termenul insusi de Orientalism este cunoscut in … Continue reading →

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in the woods (Film: Schmitke – Stepan Altrichter, 2014)

Posted on August 28, 2016 by admin

The second film that I have seen in the Czech film festival at our local cinematheque was a first long feature film by director Stepan Altrichter, actually a co-production between the German and Czech studios, mostly spoken in German, as … Continue reading →

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the magic of ‘seven’ does not fully work (Film: Seven Psychopaths – Martin McDonagh, 2012)

Posted on August 27, 2016 by admin

There is a magic about the number ‘seven’ in cinema among other places. Some say it started with Snow White, other will mention Kurosawa. Fact is that many successful films used this magic and succeeded, some of them succeeded great. … Continue reading →

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selling weapons is not nice kids business (Film: War Dogs – Todd Philips, 2016)

Posted on August 26, 2016 by admin

‘War Dogs‘ is the second movie ‘inspired by a true story’ that I have seen in the last 24 hours, and is actually the one that I liked better (the other one being ‘The Infiltrator’). Its film-making style (director Todd Phillips) … Continue reading →

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‘boring and watchable’ (Film: The Infiltrator – Brad Furman, 2016)

Posted on August 25, 2016 by admin

I could not avoid borrowing the qualifications used by a Web site from Toronto when writing about this film. It’s ‘boring and watchable’. An unusual combination indeed. And yet, this is exactly how I feel about ‘The Infiltrator’ directed by … Continue reading →

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