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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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the chronicle of a failure in the Balkans (film: Sorella di Clausura – Ivana Mladenovic, 2025)

Posted on March 5, 2026 by admin

Ivana Mladenovic, the director of the film ‘Sorella din Clausura‘ (‘Cloistered Sister‘ in the English distribution), was born in Serbia, but studied theater and film in Romania, where her four feature films to date have been made. The film’s title, … Continue reading →

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banality of good and evil (film: It Was Just an Accident / Yek tasadof-e sadeh – Jafar Panahi, 2025)

Posted on February 24, 2026 by admin

Jafar Panahi‘s ‘It was Just an Accident‘ (the original title is ‘Yek tasadof-e sadeh‘) would deserve all the awards for courage and verticality, if they existed at the Academy Awards or international film festivals. The Iranian director, the actors and … Continue reading →

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life as a boxing match (film: Gipsy Queen – Hüseyin Tabak, 2019)

Posted on February 21, 2026 by admin

Romanian cinema has only recently begun to deal more intensely with the fate of the over 5 million Romanians who live and work outside the country’s borders, with several very interesting films being released in the last year. These films … Continue reading →

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Barbie on Wuthering Heights (film: Wuthering Heights – Emerald Fennell, 2026)

Posted on February 15, 2026 by admin

A few years ago, when I watched ‘Promising Young Woman’, the debut feature film of English actress and screenwriter Emerald Fennell, I set out to follow the career of this promising filmmaker, who with that film won an Academy Award … Continue reading →

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who is the monster? (film: Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro, 2025)

Posted on February 10, 2026 by admin

Movies inspired by Gothic novels are back in fashion. The famous triptic that has inspired directors and actors for a century has given birth to a new generation of remakes in the last year: first there was Robert Eggers’ ‘Nosferatu’, … Continue reading →

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