Monthly Archives: November 2012

Bad Neighborhoods (Film: Tropa de Elite – Brasil, 2007)

Brazilian cinema is for me another almost completely unexplored territory. Have I ever seen a Brazilian movie before? Probably not, maybe a couple of documentaries about Brazilian music. Director Jose Padilha‘s Elite Squad was for me as big a surprise … Continue reading

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Carte: Joyce Carol Oates – Gradina placerilor lumesti

‘Cat de infricosatoare par profetiile unui tanar scriitor, privite retrospectiv! Daca vom scrie suficient de mult si vom trai suficient de mult, viata noastra va fi, in mare, un deja vu, iar noi insine, personajele-fantoma pe care credeam ca le-am … Continue reading

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3Dance (Film: Pina – Wim Wenders, 2011)

Reading some the interviews that Wim Wenders gave about Pina I learned that this film ended to be something quite different from what the director originally intended. While fascinated a long time by Pina Bausch’s creation and especially Cafe Muller, … Continue reading

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21st century Bond (Film: Skyfall – James Bond, 2012)

The century is the 21st according to one of the popular counting methods and ‘Bond, James Bond’ is still spoken from the screen by a man dressed in a tuxedo with a glass of a selected cocktail in hand. Yet, … Continue reading

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Uncertain Future (Film: Sound of My Voice, 2011)

There are many interesting scenes and ideas  in Sound a My Voice, the first film of director Zal Batmanglij. Co-written with Brit Marling, one of the two feminine stars of the film it tells the story of a young couple … Continue reading

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A Fall on the Social Slope (Film: The House of Mirth – Terence Davies, Gillian Anderson, 2000)

The local cinematheque screened a few weeks ago the 2000 adaptation of Edit Wharton’s now classic novel The House of Mirth, whose first screen adaptation to screen dates back from 1918.     The House of Mirth is a combination … Continue reading

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1984 + 1 (Film: Brazil – Terry Gilliam, 1985)

I got very late to seeing Brazil. 27 years later. It was released in 1985, one year after Orwell’s year, which was also the exact moment I left my own Orwellian universe, the one where I had lived the first … Continue reading

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The Thrill is Gone (Film: The Muppets, 2011)

One of the songs in the first part of this comeback tentative of The Muppets is called ‘Can We Do It Again?’.  To some extent it resumes the story and the history of this film. The story because the film … Continue reading

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Back to the 80s (Film: We Own the Night – Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Wahlberg, 2007)

There is a strong feeling of deja vu planning on the viewers of We Own the Night (the slogan of the NYPD in the 80s, while fighting for the control of the streets of the Big Apple at night). The … Continue reading

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‘Double Vision’ – Contemporary Art from Japan at the Tikotin Museum

The Tikotin Museum of Japanese Art and the Haifa Museum of Art organized in Haifa what is probably the most important exhibition of contemporary art from Japan ever hold in Israel with the occasion of the 60 years since Japan … Continue reading

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