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confused and divisive as the world is (film: Eddington – Ari Aster, 2025)

Posted on April 18, 2026 by admin

‘Eddington‘, the fourth film by American director Ari Aster, reminded me in many ways of some of Romanian director Radu Jude’s recent films. Made in 2025, the film looks back at the first half of 2020, a period that seems … Continue reading →

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a horror menu (film: The Menu – Mark Mylod, 2022)

Posted on April 7, 2026 by admin

Food movies lovers are in for a special treat in ‘The Menu‘, the 2022 film by director Mark Mylod. Or, to use the film’s terminology – a very special menu. Food movies have become an extremely popular genre, rivaled perhaps … Continue reading →

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endangered species (film: Jurassic World: Rebirth – Gareth Edwards, 2025)

Posted on April 5, 2026 by admin

Gareth Edwards, the director of the seventh film in the Jurassic series (‘Jurassic World: Rebirth‘ – 2025) was born in 1975, the year Steven Spielberg directed ‘Jaws’. In the last ten years he has specialized in monster and alien films, … Continue reading →

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a piece of life (film: C’mon C’mon – Mike Mills, 2021)

Posted on April 2, 2026 by admin

Mike Mills is one of those screenwriters-directors who have a formidable talent for bringing real life, as we know it, to the screen. I noticed this in one of his previous films – ’20th Century Women’ and this opinion was … Continue reading →

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history in style (film: Amsterdam – David O. Russell, 2022)

Posted on March 31, 2026 by admin

I confess that ‘Amsterdam‘, the 2022 film by David O. Russell, confused me. The American director, who also writes his scripts, has made several films that I really liked for their stylistic consistency, for the topics related to the American … Continue reading →

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Cukor after Hitchcock (film: Gaslight – George Cukor, 1944)

Posted on March 24, 2026 by admin

Some American remakes are much better than the original films. There aren’t many, but they do exist. ‘Gaslight‘, filmed in Hollywood in 1944 by George Cukor, is one of them. The film reuses, four years later, the plot of a … Continue reading →

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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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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 →

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