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CHANGE.WORLD: 2022 – Anul care a fost

Posted on December 26, 2022 by admin

2022. Ce an a fost! În 2020, Timpul părea să fi încremenit în loc. În 2021, roțile sale începuseră să se miște încet, după amorțire. În 2022, ritmul evenimentelor a început să se accelereze și de multe ori am avut … Continue reading →

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back to the 40s (film: Farewell, My Lovely – Dick Richards, 1975)

Posted on December 24, 2022 by admin

The biography of Dick Richards, the director of ‘Farewell, My Lovely‘ (1975) is an enigma to me. This screen adaptation (the second, the first had been made in 1944) of one of Raymond Chandler‘s novels with private detective Phil Marlowe … Continue reading →

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the 4th question (film: Oldboy – Spike Lee, 2013)

Posted on December 22, 2022 by admin

In one of the key scenes of this 2013 version of ‘Oldboy‘, the Bad Guy asks the film’s hero two questions. Correct answers in a limited time are conditions of his survival. Furthermore, the villain points out to him that … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Revoluție pe roți

Posted on December 20, 2022 by admin

Articolul din această săptămână, al rubricii noastre, pleacă de la un panou publicitar pe care l-am văzut acum câteva săptămâni atârnat de un pod, pe autostrada de la marginea orașului în care locuiesc. Reclama anunța intrarea pe piața internă a … Continue reading →

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old age and horror (film: X – Ti West, 2022)

Posted on December 20, 2022 by admin

I love film-in-film movies. ‘X‘ – the 2022 film from director Ti West – is a horror film set during the filming of a pornographic film in 1979. Ti West manages – in my opinion – to make a smart … Continue reading →

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‘Hanuca: Sărbătoarea și… un cântec al sărbătorii’ – un articol de Lucian-Zeev Herșcovici

Posted on December 18, 2022 by admin

Ce reprezintă sărbătoarea de Hanuca în calendarul evreiesc („mozaic”)? Mi-am pus această întrebare în repetate rânduri, încercând de fiecare dată să-mi dau un răspuns universitar sau un răspuns „iudaic” și să evit reluarea argumentelor și contra-argumentelor auzite sau expuse anterior. … Continue reading →

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a revenge thriller of a special kind (film: Promising Young Woman – Emerald Fennell, 2020)

Posted on December 17, 2022 by admin

Cassandra, the main hero of ‘Promising Young Woman‘, a movie written and directed by British filmmaker and actress Emerald Fennell and released on screens in 2020, seems to be a typical heroine in the genre of ‘revenge thriller’. During the … Continue reading →

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between duty and love (film: Les destinées sentimentales – Olivier Assayas, 2000)

Posted on December 15, 2022 by admin

The presence of Emmanuelle Béart and of Isabelle Huppert in the credits and the fact that ‘Les destinées sentimentales‘ is directed by Olivier Assayas were enough to convince me to see this film, despite its daunting three-hour length. Made in … Continue reading →

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an immersive police investigation (film: On ne meurt que deux fois – Jacques Deray, 1985)

Posted on December 13, 2022 by admin

At first glance ‘On ne meurt que deux fois‘ (or ‘He Died with His Eyes Open‘ – the title of the English version) is another detective movie, with a police inspector investigating a murder. And yet this ‘whodunit’ style story … Continue reading →

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Apocalypse, then! (film: Kuroi ame / Black Rain – Shôhei Imamura, 1989)

Posted on December 12, 2022 by admin

I happen to have seen and written about a number of end-of-the-world and post-apocalyptic movies lately. Most of them were dystopias and/or special effects films that depicted the possible ends of the world as we know it and what would … Continue reading →

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