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Taipei 101

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin

Too many trips accumulated and too little time was available to me to write about them, or at least post some commented pictures on the blog. I will try to catch up but I will probably mix and alternate information … Continue reading →

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Carte: Petru Popescu – Supleantul

Posted on November 8, 2011 by admin

Receptarea de catre critica si de catre cititori a primei carti scrise in limba romana si publicata direct in Romania de catre Petru Popescu dupa trei decenii si jumatate de absenta nu a fost usoara. Nici subiectul si nici abordarea … Continue reading →

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Film: The Girl Who Played with Fire (2009)

Posted on November 7, 2011 by admin

With a new director (Daniel Alfredson) taking charge of the second film in the Scandinavian version Millennium series, The Girl Whi Played with Fire is not at all a disappointment but is less striking and less memorable than the first … Continue reading →

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Intermezzo in Milan

Posted on November 6, 2011 by admin

I will divide in two parts the collection of impressions and pictures from our recent vacation in Italy. It started with a four days prelude or intermezzo in Milan, followed by one full week in Sicily. This first part is … Continue reading →

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Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’ at the Cameri Theater

Posted on November 1, 2011 by admin

The Caretaker is one of the first plays of Harold Pinter and his first commercial success on the British stages. Published in 1960 it was strongly influenced by the works of the masters of the absurd theater, especially Ionesco and … Continue reading →

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Gica Manescu – Gene

Posted on October 31, 2011 by admin

La 95 de ani Gica Manescu este pentru toti cei care au norocul sa il cunoasca direct sau din scrierile sale in presa sau pe Internet un fenomen de claritate, cu o memorie a trecutului si o acuitate a observatiei … Continue reading →

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Liviu Ciulei (1923-2011)

Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin

The 60s was the decade of hope in the history of Communist Romania. After the frozen 50s which had seen the pick of the repression but also the death of Stalin, the grip of the Communist rule seemed to slowly … Continue reading →

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Sanda Weigl in Tel Aviv

Posted on October 30, 2011 by admin

How comes it that I did not know at least her name before? Sanda Weigl is a superb musician, with a deep and moving voice, whose art has its roots in the Gypsy and Romanian traditional music which she processed … Continue reading →

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Film: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)

Posted on October 10, 2011 by admin

Stieg Larsson was an interesting character, worth a novel or a movie by himself. A journalist and a writer of science-fiction, a left-winger who spent part of his youth training guerrillas in Eritrea, he wrote three crime novels as a … Continue reading →

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Film: Valkyrie (Tom Cruise, 2008)

Posted on October 9, 2011 by admin

The plot to kill Adolf Hitler put together in July 1944 by a group of military was the last in a series of attempts to kill the head of the Third Reich and save what could be saved of the … Continue reading →

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