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CHANGE.WORLD: Premiile Nobel în anul Coronei

Posted on October 19, 2020 by admin

2020 este un an special din multe puncte de vedere. Am scris cam de multe ori aceste cuvinte în ultima vreme și probabil că le voi mai scrie încă de multe ori. Pandemia a schimbat multe planuri și a afectat … Continue reading →

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the testimony of Mr. Laszlo Nussbaum (documentary : Nussbaum 95732 – Laszlo Csibi, 2017)

Posted on August 30, 2020 by admin

The opening sequence of the documentary – testimony that director László Csibi dedicated to Laszlo Nussbaum, one of the last Holocaust survivors living in the city of Cluj in Romania today, reminded me of my first encounter at Buchenwald with … Continue reading →

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B.C. / A.D. (English Version)

Posted on July 27, 2020 by admin

B.C. / A.D. We all know the meaning of these acronyms, don’t we? Acronyms that define the two great epochs of human history. B.C. obviously means ‘Before Corona’ and A.D. means, say, ‘After De-confinement’. This is the first in a … Continue reading →

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the relativism of evil (Film: Arest – Andrei Cohn, 2019)

Posted on July 24, 2020 by admin

The Romanian ‘New Wave’, largely characterized by the minimalist cinematic style and the themes related to the past of the communist period or the miseries and contradictions of the so-called ‘transition’ period, has already turned 15 years old. I had … Continue reading →

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a striking first film (film: Divines – Houda Benyamina, 2016)

Posted on June 23, 2020 by admin

‘Divines‘ is the debut film and the only feature film made so far by French director Houda Benyamina. Presented at Cannes in 2016, it made an excellent impression, receiving the Camera d’Or award, followed by nominations and distinctions at other … Continue reading →

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farewell Philip Seymour Hoffman (Film: A Most Wanted Man – Philip Seymour Hoffman, 2014)

Posted on June 17, 2020 by admin

There are deaths it is very difficult for me to reconcile with, deaths about which I maintain a degree of disbelief. I can’t believe, for example, that I won’t see new movies with Robin Williams or Philip Seymour Hoffman. These … Continue reading →

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much more than a crime drama (Film: Garde a vue – Lino Ventura, Romy Schneider, 1981)

Posted on June 16, 2020 by admin

‘Garde a vue‘, made in 1981, brings together on screen two of the super-stars of French cinema from the ’60s and’ 70s, each of them in one of their last films, although neither their age nor their artistic form indicates … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Gutenberg și Zuckerberg

Posted on June 15, 2020 by admin

‘The Atlantic’ este unul dintre puținele periodice tipărite la care mai sunt încă abonat. Revista americană împreună cu platforma sa internetică reprezintă continuarea uneia dintre cele mai remarcabile tradiții din presa americană, revista ‘The Atlantic Monthly’ fondată în 1857, la … Continue reading →

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CHANGE.WORLD: Între Pământ și stele

Posted on June 8, 2020 by admin

Știrile săptămânii ne poartă spre stele, dar nu ne lasă nici să ne despărțim de actualitățile care ne invadează viețile pe Pământ. Rubrica CHANGE.WORLD se va ocupa, firesc, în această săptămână, de misiunea spațială Crew Dragon Demo-2, care reprezintă o … Continue reading →

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the fascinating Rita (film: Gilda – Rita Hayworth, 1946)

Posted on June 2, 2020 by admin

‘Gilda‘ was one of the great hits of the 1946 film year. It was screened at the first Cannes Film Festival and even had an atomic bomb named after it (or after it, to be exact). The director of the … Continue reading →

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