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A Book about The Basque Country

Posted on June 26, 2011 by admin

One thing is for sure – I have painfully little time left for reading nowadays. I can too easily count the latest books I have read, and here I am more than one month after my trip to Bilbao painfully … Continue reading →

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Three Churches in Paris

Posted on June 25, 2011 by admin

To a large extent the history of Europe is built and carved in the stone and marbles of its churches. Visiting churches, old and new, conserved and renovated takes the visitors in the past times of the men who lived … Continue reading →

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Exhibitions and Museums in Paris

Posted on June 24, 2011 by admin

Paris is one of these cities that makes an art lover feel like he is in Paradise. Tens of world-class museums, hundreds of exhibitions to chose from at any moment. We tried to select during the nine days that we … Continue reading →

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‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Cameri Theater

Posted on June 23, 2011 by admin

‘What’s in a name?’ asks Romeo in one of the best known monologues in Romeo and Juliet and in the whole history of theater. What’s in the title of a play that any viewer knows about since school, whose every … Continue reading →

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Felicia Antip – ‘Das Kind’ si alte 44 de filme

Posted on June 22, 2011 by admin

La Bucuresti are loc in aceasta saptamana prima editie a Festivalul Filmului Evreiesc – BJFF (http://www.bjff.ro/). Prietena mea Felicia Antip mi-a facut placerea de a-mi permite sa preiau pentru cititorii blogului notele ei de la vizionarea unuia din filmele prezentate … Continue reading →

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Gica Manescu – ‘Periplu USA – Canada’

Posted on June 21, 2011 by admin

Un nou articol semnat de Gica Manescu ne poarta in locuri vizitate de el in vacantele sale din America de Nord. ————– Cotrobaind prin mape cu diverse insemnari, amintiri din locuri deosebite si cu unele particularitati mai  rar vazute si … Continue reading →

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Yelena Bonner (1923 – 2011)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by admin

Yelena Bonner died today in Boston. Many people call themselves today human rights activists and freedom fighters. So many and so different are the people and their aims and causes that the very notions seem to have lost value. Yelena … Continue reading →

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‘Woyzeck’ at the Cameri Theater

Posted on June 19, 2011 by admin

I remember too little from the performance I must have seen more than 40 years ago with Buchner‘s ‘Woyczeck’ at the Bulandra Theater in Bucharest, by the time when Liviu Ciulei and Lucian Pintilie dominated the Romanian theater in a … Continue reading →

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Film: Hanyo (The Housemaid) – Sang-soo Im, 2010

Posted on June 18, 2011 by admin

‘The Housemaid’ is based on a Korean classic movie from the 60s which I have not seen, but which is referred to by many critics and viewers knowledgeable in Korean cinema. With no term of comparison I have the (maybe) … Continue reading →

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Theater Evenings in Paris

Posted on June 17, 2011 by admin

We spent five out of the eight evenings of our Parisian vacation at the theater. Paris is of course a city of great tradition on this respect, with tens of options every evening and the problem for the occasional visitor … Continue reading →

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