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testing the limits (film: La dernière femme – Marco Ferreri, 1976)

Posted on September 22, 2023 by admin

Before Lars von Trier (the ‘bad’ one – the one who directed ‘Antichrist’ and ‘Nymphomaniac’) there was Marco Ferreri. In 1976, when he made ‘La dernière femme‘, the Italian screenwriter and director had wowed bourgeois audiences (and the members of … Continue reading →

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a clash of two worlds (TV movie: Honecker und der Pastor – Jan Josef Liefers, 2022)

Posted on September 21, 2023 by admin

The fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany opened the door to the making of films that look back at the years of the communist dictatorship and the complex process of change that this country went through. … Continue reading →

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a fine bilingual and multicultural romantic drama (film: Past Lives – Celine Song, 2023)

Posted on September 20, 2023 by admin

The Chinese zodiac (and the Korean one that is derived from it) has a 12-year cycle, with each year under the sign of one of the animals that successfully passed the legendary test of crossing the river challenged by the … Continue reading →

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Două eseuri pe teme biblice (David Grossman – Mierea leului, Amos Oz – Isus și Iuda)

Posted on September 19, 2023 by admin

Dacă luăm ca punct de referință cărțile Vechiului Testament, limba ebraică este una dintre cele mai vechi – dacă nu cea mai veche – limbă vorbită și scrisă care mai este folosita activ până în ziua de astăzi. Psalmii pot … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Știrile verii

Posted on September 11, 2023 by admin

În avanpremiera celui de-al 11-lea sezon al rubricii CHANGE.WORLD, rubrică găzduită cu generozitate de ‘Literatura de Azi’, vă propun să trecem în revistă câteva dintre știrile importante legate de știință, tehnologie, aplicațiile industriale ale acestora și impactul lor în viețile … Continue reading →

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this is neither a biopic, nor a jazz movie (film: Miles Ahead – Don Cheadle, 2015)

Posted on September 8, 2023 by admin

‘Miles Ahead‘ is the title of an album by the legendary jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, released in 1957. Don Cheadle took the title of this album for the 2015 Miles Davis movie starring him. I have to be cautious in … Continue reading →

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the world is more than one room (film: Room – Lenny Abrahamson, 2015)

Posted on September 7, 2023 by admin

‘Room‘, the 2015 film made by Lenny Abrahamson based on a script written by Lenny Abrahamson, who adapted her own novel for the screen can be considered as a sequence of two different films, each about an hour long, with … Continue reading →

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Memoriile unui englez care iubește România (carte: Dennis Deletant – În căutarea României)

Posted on September 7, 2023 by admin

Editura Humanitas publică cu promptitudinea remarcabilă și salutară care o caracterizează versiunea românească a cărții ‘In Search of Romania’, carte apărută anul trecut în Anglia sub semnătura lui Dennis Deletant. Titlul actualei ediții este ‘În căutarea României’ și traducerea (fără … Continue reading →

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the first masterpiece by Fellini (film: La strada – Frederico Fellini, 1954)

Posted on September 6, 2023 by admin

‘La strada‘, made in 1954, is considered Fellini‘s first masterpiece. There are actually many ‘firsts’ collected by this film. It won the first Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. It is the first high-quality ‘road movie’ in European cinema. … Continue reading →

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night in the city (film: Un témoin dans la ville – Édouard Molinaro, 1959)

Posted on September 5, 2023 by admin

‘Un témoin dans la ville‘, the third feature film made in 1959 by Édouard Molinaro, begins with a scene of a murder on a train that seems taken from an Alfred Hitchcock film and ends with an anthological and original … Continue reading →

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