Category Archives: documentary

the Hollywood Dream (film: Hollywoodism – Simcha Jacobovici, 1998)

Posted on November 23, 2020 by admin

Among the few positive effects of the pandemic I can list the cultural events and virtual festivals that we can access on the Internet and that I would otherwise have hardly or maybe never attended. One of them, the Jewish … Continue reading →

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Bruno Ganz’s adieu with a strong docu-drama about remembrance and the Holocaust (film: Winter Journey – Anders Østergaard, Erzsébet Rácz, 2019)

Posted on October 5, 2020 by admin

‘Winter Journey‘, a film directed by Anders Østergaard and Erzsébet Rácz, brings to the screen the book by Martin Goldsmith, who is also co-author of the screenplay together with the Danish director. Goldsmith is a renowned musicologist, the son of … Continue reading →

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the Delta of Bucharest (documentary: Acasa, My Home – Radu Ciorniciuc, 2020)

Posted on September 12, 2020 by admin

“Acasă” or “My Home” as translated in the title of Radu Ciorniciuc‘s documentary is a very special film that accompanies for four years a social program related to an unusual family. Gelu Enache and his wife had settled with their … Continue reading →

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the fire that shook Romania (film: colectiv – Alexander Nanau, 2019)

Posted on September 10, 2020 by admin

“collective“, the 2019 documentary film signed by Alexander Nanau addresses a serious topic. In the fire in the Bucharest nightclub ‘Colectiv’ which took place on October 30, 2015, 27 young people died. In the months that followed, another 37 of … Continue reading →

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the testimony of Mr. Laszlo Nussbaum (documentary : Nussbaum 95732 – Laszlo Csibi, 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by admin

The opening sequence of the documentary – testimony that director László Csibi dedicated to Laszlo Nussbaum, one of the last Holocaust survivors living in the city of Cluj in Romania today, reminded me of my first encounter at Buchenwald with … Continue reading →

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Mărturia Domnului Nussbaum (documentar: Nussbaum 95736 – Laszlo Csibi, 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by admin

Secvența care deschide documentarul – mărturie pe care regizorul László Csibi l-a dedicat lui Laszlo Nussbaum, unul dintre ultimii martori supraviețuitori ai Holocaustului care trăiesc astăzi în Cluj, mi-a amintit prima mea întâlnire la Buchenwald cu unul dintre locurile cumplite … Continue reading →

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a beautiful finale (film: Visages villages – Agnès Varda, 2017)

Posted on August 22, 2020 by admin

“Visages villages” (the English title is “Faces Places“) is the last big screen film directed in 2017 by Agnès Varda in collaboration with photographer and mural artist JR. Until her death in 2019, she would make another TV movie dedicated … Continue reading →

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a failed art essay (documentary: Francofonia – Alexandr Sokurov, 2015)

Posted on June 20, 2020 by admin

I confess that I am not a big fan of Russian director Aleksandr Sokurov. Many consider him the greatest Russian director of the 21st century and Tarkovsky‘s successor on Earth. I wasn’t at all excited (euphemism!) About ‘Russian Ark‘, I … Continue reading →

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obligația de a rezista (film documentar : Gestures of Resistance – Olga Ștefan, 2019)

Posted on May 16, 2020 by admin

Documentarul realizat în 2019 de Olga Ștefan, ‘Gesturi de rezistență’ (‘Gestures of Resistance’) începe cu un citat din Simon Wiesenthal: ‘Obligația de a rezistă începe atunci când oamenii încep să sufere deoarece le sunt încălcate drepturile. Dacă rezistența este activă … Continue reading →

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much more than ‘The Scream’ (art documentary: Exhibition on Screen: Munch 150)

Posted on February 14, 2020 by admin

Edvard Munch is one of the most famous names in the history of painting and probably, at the same time, one of the least known artists. The reason is largely due to the celebrity of single painting – ‘The Scream’ … Continue reading →

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