Category Archives: movies

a study in drunkenness (Film: Withnail & I – Bruce Robinson, 1987)

Posted on April 29, 2019 by admin

‘Withnail & I‘ belongs to the category of those films in which I can appreciate many details, artistic and technical aspects, but whose watching is an unpleasant experience for me. It’s been two days since I saw the movie, that … Continue reading →

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Tema Holocaustului în filmul românesc

Posted on April 29, 2019 by admin

Câteva filme foarte vizibile și foarte discutate și disputate în spațiul public ar putea crea impresia că Holocaustul este o tema majoră a cinematografiei românești. Lucrurile nu stau deloc așa. Subiectul a fost aproape complet absent din cinematografia românească a … Continue reading →

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nothing new about Vincent (Film: At Eternity’s Gate – Willem Dafoe, 2018)

Posted on April 28, 2019 by admin

I believe that Vincent van Gogh would have been very pleased if he could get some royalties from the films that were made about him. The “damned” artist of the generation of post-impressionists, the unrecognized genius who did not sell … Continue reading →

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the greatest dialog about movies ever (Film: Hitchcock/Truffaut – Kent Jones, 2015)

Posted on April 26, 2019 by admin

‘Hitchcock / Truffaut‘ is a movie about a book about movies. And much more. It’s a movie about the book that many of the movie fans (I among them) think of as the best book ever written about movies. A … Continue reading →

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unskilled robbers (Film: Bande à part – Jean-Luc Godard, 1964)

Posted on April 25, 2019 by admin

Jean-Luc Godard‘s films belong to a category of movies that are more interesting to talk about than to see. I do not want this statement to sound too pejorative, that’s not the intention, especially because I love the discussions about … Continue reading →

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surrealistic film noir (Film: Lost Highway – David Lynch, 1997)

Posted on April 24, 2019 by admin

‘Lost Highway‘ belongs to a category of movies that confuses many viewers, thrills many others, generates endless discussions and triggers extreme reactions. Welcome to the universe of most of David Lynch‘s films, a universe in which cinematic story telling and … Continue reading →

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a case of bad education (Film: Un pas in urma serafimilor – Daniel Sandu, 2017)

Posted on April 21, 2019 by admin

‘One Step Behind the Seraphim‘, the film that concluded for me the Romanian Film Festival that took place this week in Israel, reminded me Pedro Almodóvar‘s “Bad Education” in many ways. Both films can be seen as recovery exercises from … Continue reading →

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normality of evil (Film: Il conformista – Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

Posted on April 18, 2019 by admin

Bernardo Bertolucci has a difficult posterity. Even the obituaries at his disappearance last year included more or less veiled criticism of his voyeurism in ‘Last Tango in Paris‘ or ‘The Dreamers‘ or its sliding into the extreme-oriental commerciality of ‘The … Continue reading →

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pointless (film: Charleston – Andrei Cretulescu, 2017)

Posted on April 16, 2019 by admin

Ioana, the main character in ‘Charleston‘ directed by Andrei Cretulescu appears on the screen only in the first minute of the movie. We see her in a cafe, she gets a message on her phone, she runs out, turns the … Continue reading →

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bad luck as a way of life (Film: Ghinionistul – Iura Luncasu, 2017)

Posted on April 15, 2019 by admin

‘Ghinionistul‘ (‘The Unlucky’ or ‘The Bad Luck Guy’), the comedy directed by Iura Luncasu, which I saw at the Romanian Film Festival, organized in Israel these days, reminded me of the Romanian joke about the guy who after passing away … Continue reading →

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