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Kol Nidre 5773

Posted on September 24, 2012 by admin

“All [personal] vows we are likely to make, all [personal] oaths and pledges we are likely to take between this Yom Kippur and the next Yom Kippur, we publicly renounce. Let them all be relinquished and abandoned, null and void, … Continue reading →

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Stolen Childhood (Film: Le gamin au velo – Dardenne brothers, 2011)

Posted on September 23, 2012 by admin

Cyril, ‘le gamin’ in Le gamin au velo (The Kid with a Bike) has all the reasons to be angry. His father left him, after sending him to a public dormitory school he just disappeared trying to rebuild his life. … Continue reading →

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A World in Slow Motion (Film: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia – Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011)

Posted on September 22, 2012 by admin

This is my first encounter with work from Turkish director Nuri Bige Ceylan, and one of my first with the Turkish cinema, most of my previous experiences were with films made by Turkish directors living in Europe (Germany especially) and … Continue reading →

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Timisoara

Posted on September 21, 2012 by admin

Besides Lugoj, Timisoara is another city that has an important place in my biography, a city where I had been maybe three times in my life before, but whose geography, history and stories are familiar to me from the numerous … Continue reading →

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Carte: Octavian Soviany – Viata lui Kostas Venetis

Posted on September 19, 2012 by admin

Cu ‘Viata lui Kostas Venetis’ (Cartea Romaneasca, 2011) Octavian Soviany da literaturii romane o carte nepereche. Cine ia in mana aceasta carte si se cufunda in lectura ei nu va putea ramana indiferent. De la primele pagini este evident ca … Continue reading →

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Lugoj

Posted on September 18, 2012 by admin

The city of Lugoj is located between Caransebes and Timisoara, but the two segments of the road we made the same day were quite different. Both are in very good condition by any standards, some of the best we have … Continue reading →

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Midnight in Tel Aviv (2 Night – Israel, 2010)

Posted on September 17, 2012 by admin

Israeli film makers like playing with confined spaces. A couple of years ago first-time director Samuel Maoz was skillfully confining in Lebanon the drama of young men caught up in the cruelness and absurdity of the war as they participate … Continue reading →

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Happy 5773!

Posted on September 16, 2012 by admin

  5773 years ago the world was created (and it will not end when the Mayans stop counting!). In the tradition of The Catcher in the Sand here are some of the best pieces of music and humor created around … Continue reading →

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Allergies in Times of War (Film: Gruber’s Journey – Radu Gabrea, 2008)

Posted on September 15, 2012 by admin

In director Radu Gabrea‘s Gruber’s Journey the Romanian cinema gets it’s first film seriously approaching the painful theme of the episodes of the Holocaust that took place in Romania between 1940 when the dictator Ion Antonescu took power (in collaboration … Continue reading →

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The Two Shores of the Danube

Posted on September 14, 2012 by admin

We spent four days during our vacation in the Iron Gates area. Two of the days were spent on driving tours on the Romanian and Serbian shores of the river. Here are a few impressions and photographs taken in these … Continue reading →

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