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Marlowe goes on (film: Marlowe – Neil Jordan, 2022)

Posted on March 18, 2026 by admin

What do Humphrey Boggart, Robert Mitchum, George Sanders and Liam Neeson have in common? They have all won Academy Awards. Something else? They have all played Philip Marlowe on screen. Marlowe is one of those characters who has long since … Continue reading →

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De la cultura dezbaterii la fanatismul puterii (carte: Cristina A. Bejan – Intelectualii și fascismul în România interbelică. Asociația Criterion)

Posted on March 16, 2026 by admin

După câte știu eu, nu s-a scris încă vreun studiu amplu despre contribuția istoricilor străini la istoriografia românească și în special la cea care se ocupă de ultimul secol. Aceasta mi se pare a fi foarte semnificativă în ultimele decenii. … Continue reading →

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daddy’s romcom (film: The Apartment – Billy Wilder, 1960)

Posted on March 15, 2026 by admin

‘The Apartment‘ was made in 1960, a year after director Billy Wilder and his Romania-born co-writer I.A.L. Diamond had made ‘Some Like It Hot’. The success was expected and the film did even better than its predecessor, winning 5 Oscars … Continue reading →

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the other lives of a monster (film: Das Verschwinden des Josef Mengele – Kirill Serebrennikov, 2025)

Posted on March 13, 2026 by admin

Director Kirill Serebrennikov is a leading figure in contemporary Russian theater and film, and a man of great talent and courage. His most recent films are both author films and biographies of complex and very different personalities. The composer Tchaikovsky … Continue reading →

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the monster finds love (film: The Bride! – Maggie Gyllenhaal, 2026)

Posted on March 9, 2026 by admin

Maggie Gyllenhaal seems to me to be one of the success stories among actors who have gone behind the camera and became directors. After the remarkable debut with ‘The Lost Daughter’ now comes ‘The Bride!‘ which is more than a … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged Annette Bening, Christian Bale, Hollywood movies, horror, inspired by a novel, Jake Gyllenhaal, Jessie Buckley, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Penelope Cruz, Peter Sarsgaard, The Bride! | Leave a comment

the chronicle of a failure in the Balkans (film: Sorella di Clausura – Ivana Mladenovic, 2025)

Posted on March 5, 2026 by admin

Ivana Mladenovic, the director of the film ‘Sorella din Clausura‘ (‘Cloistered Sister‘ in the English distribution), was born in Serbia, but studied theater and film in Romania, where her four feature films to date have been made. The film’s title, … Continue reading →

Posted in movies | Tagged international movies production, Ivana Mladenovic, Katia Pascariu, Miodrag Mladenovic, original script, Romanian cinema, social comedy, Sorella di Clausura | Leave a comment

banality of good and evil (film: It Was Just an Accident / Yek tasadof-e sadeh – Jafar Panahi, 2025)

Posted on February 24, 2026 by admin

Jafar Panahi‘s ‘It was Just an Accident‘ (the original title is ‘Yek tasadof-e sadeh‘) would deserve all the awards for courage and verticality, if they existed at the Academy Awards or international film festivals. The Iranian director, the actors and … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Sfârșitul erei telefoanelor inteligente?

Posted on February 24, 2026 by admin

Her, filmul de anticipație din 2013 al regizorului Spike Jonze, se deschidea cu o scenă care părea atunci ușor fantezistă, ușor distopică. Era filmată o stradă aglomerată într-o lume nu departe de prezentul de atunci, în care oamenii nu mai … Continue reading →

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life as a boxing match (film: Gipsy Queen – Hüseyin Tabak, 2019)

Posted on February 21, 2026 by admin

Romanian cinema has only recently begun to deal more intensely with the fate of the over 5 million Romanians who live and work outside the country’s borders, with several very interesting films being released in the last year. These films … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Artemis, sora lui Apollo

Posted on February 16, 2026 by admin

În mitologia greacă, Artemis era zeița vânătorii și a animalelor sălbatice, a nașterilor și a castității, protectoarea fetelor tinere, a mamelor și a naturii. În tablourile maeștrilor, Artemis și Diana, corespondenta sa din mitologia romană, sunt adesea reprezentate înarmate cu … Continue reading →