Category Archives: movies

Film: L’Armee des Ombres (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969)

Posted on August 22, 2010 by admin

I was writing a while ago that when Quentin Tarantino was making Inglorious Basterds he was not so much making a film about the Second World War and the Holocaust, but more a Tarantino film that happens during the Second … Continue reading →

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Film: ‘You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger’ (Woody Allen, 2010)

Posted on August 16, 2010 by admin

Something is happening to Woody Allen … or to me … not clear exactly what, but I started to like more his latest films. His 2010 production screened at Cannes seems to have been seen by very few people, and … Continue reading →

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Film: Le Cercle Rouge (Jean-Pierre Melville, 1970)

Posted on August 8, 2010 by admin

(video source nwatts88) Uri Klein, the film critic of Ha’Aretz chose to open yesterday his short presentation of Jean-Pierre Melville‘s Le Circle Rouge (The Red Circle) with a short appearance of the director in Godard‘s Au Bout de Souffle. Melville … Continue reading →

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Film: Le Concert (Radu Mihaileanu, 2009)

Posted on August 7, 2010 by admin

This is the first film of Radu Mihaileanu that really did it to me. It is moving, I resonated with the subject, I laughed when it was funny and I was close to tears when it meant to be emotional. … Continue reading →

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Film: Zohi Sdom (Israel – 2010)

Posted on August 5, 2010 by admin

‘Zohi Sdom’ which is translation means ‘That’s Sodom’ deliberately places itself at the intersection between the very popular Israeli TV show ‘Eretz Neederet’ (Wonderful Country) and the big screen British Monty Python movies of historical and Biblical inspiration. The Israeli … Continue reading →

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Film: The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray, 1977)

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

It is my friend Pierre who introduced me to the work of Satyajit Ray. Charulata (The Loney Wife) was the first film of him that I saw, at Pierre’s recommendation. Then I fell recently on an article written in one … Continue reading →

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Film: La Verite (Clouzot, 1960)

Posted on July 19, 2010 by admin

In Bernard Tavernier’s film Laissez Passer which I wrote about a few days ago Henri-Georges Clouzot gets indirectly a harsh treatment. He is one of these directors who continued to work under the German occupation during WWII, and was attacked … Continue reading →

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Film: Laissez-Passer (Bertrand Tavernier – 2002)

Posted on July 14, 2010 by admin

Life under German occupation was a subject that was treated in the French cinema in a gradual manner, differing according to the time of the production, reflecting the process of coping with the darkest hour of the history of France … Continue reading →

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Carte: Alex Leo Serban – ‘4 decenii, 3 ani si 2 luni cu filmul romanesc’

Posted on July 9, 2010 by admin

Aceste note de lectura au aparut pe Web-site-ul filme-carti.ro condus de prietenul meu Stefan Ene (Jovi) si sunt prima mea contributie la noua editie a acestui site, pe care il recomand tuturor iubitorilor de film si carte. ——————— Una dintre … Continue reading →

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Film: ‘Stare de fapt’ (1996)

Posted on July 7, 2010 by admin

There is very little information available about this film which was recently broadcast by the Romanian satellite TV station TVRi. The director himself had a career marked by big intervals of silence. His first film was a documentary made in … Continue reading →

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