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AIDS docu-melodrama (Film: Dallas Buyers Club – Matthew McConaughey, 2013)

Posted on February 21, 2014 by admin

‘Inspired from a real story’ can provide the premises of good movies and bad movies, or I should put it in different words – movies I like and movies I do not like. They are usually good when they aim … Continue reading →

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drama of a fallen socialite (Film: Blue Jasmine – Woody Allen, 2013)

Posted on February 17, 2014 by admin

Some of the latest films of Woody Allen seem so much taken out of life that you have the feeling that Woody’s camera caught a point in time when the story started and left the story at another point in … Continue reading →

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an amazing technical achievement (Film: The Adventures of Tintin – Steven Spielberg, 2011)

Posted on February 9, 2014 by admin

Having made some of the best and some of the most successful movies in the history of film making, Steven Spielberg has nothing to prove to anyone but himself. He is the complete master of the subjects and themes, genres … Continue reading →

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huge acting by Meryl Streep (Film: August: Osage County – Meryl Streep, 2013)

Posted on February 8, 2014 by admin

I had seen the play that inspired August: Osage County a few years back on stage at the HaBima theater in Tel Aviv and I confess that I did not remember much of the story. It took me this second … Continue reading →

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terror thriller a la americaine (Film: Secret Defense – Philip Haim, 2008)

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin

What is bluntly visible in this French film is the American look. Actually it is not only the look – the whole approach taken by the film starting with its story and I dare say with its ideology, going through … Continue reading →

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not too much to remember (Film: The Salton Sea – Val Klimer, 2002)

Posted on February 6, 2014 by admin

The test of the time is probably the best test that a movie can pass or fail. I have seen The Salton Sea two weeks ago, and did not have time to write immediately about it. Two weeks later I … Continue reading →

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Becket, dupa 50 de ani (Film: Becket – Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole, 1964)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by admin

Stranie experienta este revederea unui film la jumatate de secol (sau aproape) de la prima vizionare. Cand ‘Becket’ a aparut pe ecranele romanesti trebuie sa fi fost 1964 (anul producerii filmului) sau 1965. Memoria afectiva si selectiva a pastrat in … Continue reading →

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Becket, 50 years later (Film: Becket – Peter Grenville, 1964)

Posted on January 22, 2014 by admin

It’s a strange experience re-viewing a movie half a century (or almost) after the first viewing. When ‘ Becket ‘ appeared on the Romanian screens the year must have been 1964 (the year the film production ) or 1965. My … Continue reading →

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The ‘Romanian Evening’ at the New Israeli Opera (‘Un ballo in maschera’ at the NIO)

Posted on January 19, 2014 by admin

Un ballo in Maschera has a very convoluted history. Created in the years that preceded the unification and independence of Italy, the opera was originally written as a regicide plot based on the historical facts of the assassination of king Gustav … Continue reading →

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great film about the ‘worst director ever’ (Film: Ed Wood – Tim Burton, 1994)

Posted on January 18, 2014 by admin

One of the best thing Hollywood makes is films about Hollywood. Some may judge these movies like kind of acts of self-adulation, but the fact is that films dedicated to films making and even homage films about past stars and … Continue reading →

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