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Spielberg – the documentary (Film: Spielberg – Susan Lacy, 2017)

Posted on October 9, 2019 by admin

147 minutes may be too much or too little for a documentary about the biography and career of one of the most important contemporary film directors. That’s exactly the feeling left by Susan Lacy‘s ‘Spielberg‘ for HBO. On one hand … Continue reading →

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the saga of an unusual family (Film: Ostatnia rodzina / The Last Family – Jan P. Matuszynski, 2016)

Posted on October 7, 2019 by admin

Jan P. Matuszynski, the director of the remarkable film ‘Ostatnia rodzina‘ (‘The Last Family’) we saw at the Polish film festival organized by the local cinematheque was born in 1984. Part of the story in the film takes place before … Continue reading →

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beware of the mermaids! (Film: The Lure – Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015)

Posted on October 3, 2019 by admin

‘Corki Dancing‘ (‘Daughters of Dance’) by the Polish director Agnieszka Smoczynska, distributed in the English-speaking world as ‘The Lure’, is part of the increasingly rich category of films that refuse categorization or, if you want, creatively combine different genres and … Continue reading →

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an ambiguous thriller (Film: L’amour est un crime parfait – Mathieu Amalric, 2013)

Posted on September 28, 2019 by admin

‘Love is the Perfect Crime’ (‘L’amour est un crime parfait’ in French) is one of the most formidable movie titles I can remember. A title that promises a combination of thriller and love story, which is indeed part of what … Continue reading →

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the nightmare of the nightingale (Film: The Nightingale – Jennifer Kent, 2018)

Posted on September 27, 2019 by admin

I rarely have the opportunity to watch Australian films. Some of the actors and directors from the antipodes continent made brilliant careers in Hollywood, but Australian films rarely enjoy international distribution. Maybe unfairly, because the ones I managed to see … Continue reading →

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a theater love story (Film: Edmond – Alexis Michalik, 2018)

Posted on September 26, 2019 by admin

I saw the play ‘Edmond’ written and staged by Alexis Michalik in Paris almost two years ago. The show had received five Molieres prizes (the supreme distinctions of the French theater) and impressed me with the combination of modernism and … Continue reading →

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Coppola dreams Eliade (Film: Youth Without Youth – Francis Ford Coppola, 2007)

Posted on September 23, 2019 by admin

‘Youth Without Youth‘ was a complete surprise to me. It is probably the least understood film of Francis Ford Coppola. Made in 2007 and filmed largely in Romania, it faithfully screens a late novella by Mircea Eliade, written in 1976. … Continue reading →

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caravan of terror (Film: Caravana cinematografica – Titus Muntean, 2009)

Posted on September 18, 2019 by admin

The movie caravans have a history that is worth exploring. It begins a century ago in Russia immediately after the Bolshevik revolution. The regime established by Lenin and Stalin noticed early the propaganda force of the young art of cinema … Continue reading →

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the unbelievable past (Documentary: Utopia impusa – Marius Barna, 2010)

Posted on September 15, 2019 by admin

The documentary film ‘Utopia impusa‘ (‘The Imposed Utopia’) was made in 2009. That was the year of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Romania, and screenwriter Lucian Dan Teodorovici and director Marius Barna felt the … Continue reading →

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Leonardo, the painter (Film: Leonardo Live – Phil Grabsky, 2012)

Posted on September 13, 2019 by admin

I saw last night at the local cinematheque one of the oldest art documentaries of the series ‘Exhibition on Screen’, dedicated to Leonardo Da Vinci’s paintings and made in 2012 by Phil Grabsky, on the occasion of the exhibition that … Continue reading →

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