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Blinded by Love (Film: Seisaku’s Wife – Yasuzô Masumura, 2005)

Posted on December 3, 2012 by admin

My discovery of the fascinating world of the Japanese cinema progresses slowly. The cinematheque in my city scheduled the projection of a few films belonging to another of the great Japanese directors of the post-war generation – Yasuzo Masumura. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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Blood Border (Film: Machete – Robert De Niro, 2010)

Posted on December 2, 2012 by admin

Action movies are one of my not so secret guilty pleasures and I do not even feel so guilty since directors in the genre get recognition not only from audiences but also from critics, and the genre is celebrated at … Continue reading →

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… and the rest is NOT silence (Film: The Artist – Michel Hazanavicius, 2011)

Posted on December 1, 2012 by admin

The Artist is a good and entertaining film, and it may deserve the handful of Oscar prizes that it received. I missed it in the theaters, then I bought the DVD when I was in Paris, and it’s only now … Continue reading →

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Bad Neighborhoods (Film: Tropa de Elite – Brasil, 2007)

Posted on November 29, 2012 by admin

Brazilian cinema is for me another almost completely unexplored territory. Have I ever seen a Brazilian movie before? Probably not, maybe a couple of documentaries about Brazilian music. Director Jose Padilha‘s Elite Squad was for me as big a surprise … Continue reading →

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Carte: Joyce Carol Oates – Gradina placerilor lumesti

Posted on November 27, 2012 by admin

‘Cat de infricosatoare par profetiile unui tanar scriitor, privite retrospectiv! Daca vom scrie suficient de mult si vom trai suficient de mult, viata noastra va fi, in mare, un deja vu, iar noi insine, personajele-fantoma pe care credeam ca le-am … Continue reading →

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3Dance (Film: Pina – Wim Wenders, 2011)

Posted on November 25, 2012 by admin

Reading some the interviews that Wim Wenders gave about Pina I learned that this film ended to be something quite different from what the director originally intended. While fascinated a long time by Pina Bausch’s creation and especially Cafe Muller, … Continue reading →

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21st century Bond (Film: Skyfall – James Bond, 2012)

Posted on November 24, 2012 by admin

The century is the 21st according to one of the popular counting methods and ‘Bond, James Bond’ is still spoken from the screen by a man dressed in a tuxedo with a glass of a selected cocktail in hand. Yet, … Continue reading →

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Uncertain Future (Film: Sound of My Voice, 2011)

Posted on November 23, 2012 by admin

There are many interesting scenes and ideas  in Sound a My Voice, the first film of director Zal Batmanglij. Co-written with Brit Marling, one of the two feminine stars of the film it tells the story of a young couple … Continue reading →

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A Fall on the Social Slope (Film: The House of Mirth – Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, 2000)

Posted on November 22, 2012 by admin

The local cinematheque screened a few weeks ago the 2000 adaptation of Edit Wharton’s now classic novel The House of Mirth, whose first screen adaptation to screen dates back from 1918.     The House of Mirth is a combination … Continue reading →

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1984 + 1 (Film: Brazil – Terry Gilliam, 1985)

Posted on November 20, 2012 by admin

I got very late to seeing Brazil. 27 years later. It was released in 1985, one year after Orwell’s year, which was also the exact moment I left my own Orwellian universe, the one where I had lived the first … Continue reading →

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