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among the meanders of censorship (film: Meandre – Mircea Saucan, 1966)

Posted on February 13, 2021 by admin

I was 14 years old in 1967, when Mircea Saucan‘s film ‘Meandre‘ (which had been filmed in 1966) was shown on Romanian screens for a short time, before being withdrawn and buried in the archives until the fall of communism … Continue reading →

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not only about drinking (film: Another Round – Thomas Vintenberg, 2020)

Posted on February 12, 2021 by admin

There are two different films in ‘Another Round‘ (the Danish title is ‘Druk‘ which Google translates as ‘Excessive Drink’), Thomas Vinterberg‘s 2020 film. One is about alcohol, its positive and negative effects, and how drinking is an integral part of … Continue reading →

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La marginea imperiului (carte: Vasile Ernu – Bandiții)

Posted on February 11, 2021 by admin

Al doilea volum din ‘mica trilogie a marginalilor’ semnată de Vasile Ernu și publicată în 2016 în seria ‘Ego grafii’ a Editurii Polirom se ocupă cu ‘Bandiții’ după ce tema primului volum (despre care am scris și eu și Jovi) … Continue reading →

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triangular love (film: César et Rosalie – Claude Sautet, 1972)

Posted on February 10, 2021 by admin

‘Cesar et Rosalie‘, the title of the 1972 movie by French film director Claude Sautet, can easily be misleading. It is not a simple love story, or rather it is not a single love story, but two. In other words, … Continue reading →

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six facets of Bob Dylan (film: I’m Not There – Todd Haynes, 2007)

Posted on February 9, 2021 by admin

Somehow, I managed to miss the opportunity to see ‘I’m Not There‘, the film that Todd Haynes made about Bob Dylan, when it was released on screens in 2007. It’s been 14 years since this very unusual film was made. … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Vizitatori buni, vizitatori răi

Posted on February 8, 2021 by admin

Cu doar vreo patru secole în urmă, a susține că Pământul nu este centrul Universului era un păcat pedepsit cu excomunicarea și o crimă pentru care se putea ajunge la eșafod sau la rug. Ideea că spațiul cosmic este infinit … Continue reading →

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the story of the man who won for Orson Welles the only true Academy Award of his career (film: Mank – David Fincher, 2020)

Posted on February 6, 2021 by admin

Hollywood loves to make films about Hollywood, and to turn the stars of the past into the heroes of contemporary films, even at the risk of producing revisionist versions of the history of the seventh art. ‘Mank‘ released in 2020 … Continue reading →

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Isabelle and Gerard (film: Valley of Love – Guillome Nicloux, 2015)

Posted on February 5, 2021 by admin

‘Valley of Love‘, the film written and made in 2015 by Guillaume Nicloux brings Gérard Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert together on screen. These two formidable French actors had never acted together for 35 years in a film. In the meantime … Continue reading →

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saga and melodrama (film: La meglio gioventù – Marco Tullio Giordana, 2003)

Posted on February 3, 2021 by admin

One of the great joys of a cinephile is the discovery of a formidable film made by a hitherto unknown director. Of course, it’s the cinephile’s problem, that is, mine, if I haven’t known the name of Italian director Marco … Continue reading →

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Vieți paralele (carte: Matt Haig – Biblioteca de la Miezul Nopții)

Posted on February 2, 2021 by admin

Cititorii romanului lui Matt Haig ‘Biblioteca de la Miezul Nopții’ (apărut în 2020 la Editura Nemira în traducerea Cristinei Nan) vor face imediat asocierea intre formidabila metaforă care se află în miezul cărții și cealaltă bibliotecă celebră din literatura lumii, … Continue reading →

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