Tag Archives: animation

a boy with a guitar in the war-torn Europe (film: Merge si-asa – regia Valentin Urziceanu, 2022)

Posted on May 15, 2022 by admin

With ‘Merge și-asa’ (the aproximate translation would be ‘It Works, Kind Of’), the team led by director and screenwriter Valentin Urziceanu boldly steps into a cinematic genre in which Romanian cinema has very little tradition and experience – feature film … Continue reading →

sparkling and dusty at the same time (animation film: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 2018)

Posted on February 3, 2019 by admin

I do not have the habit of apologizing for my guilty pleasures, and I will not do it this time either. From time to time I love to watch animation movies. I do it not only for the nostalgia of … Continue reading →

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an immersing visual experience (Animated Film: Loving Vincent – Dorota Kobiela, Hugh Welchman, 2017)

Posted on January 24, 2018 by admin

The art of animated films does not cease to amaze. Certainly, much of the progress in the last quarter of century came from computer graphics and its derivatives, as the resolution and flexibility of the digital tools push the edge … Continue reading →

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smart and sad, apparently simple (Film: Anomalisa – Charlie Kaufman, 2015)

Posted on January 15, 2016 by admin

I expect something different, something smart, something deep, each time I am seeing a film written or (lately) directed by Charlie Kaufman. Many of his films are not one-time experiences, the second or later viewing brings new understanding and discovers … Continue reading →

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the cat of a generation (animated film: Fritz the Cat – Ralph Bakshi, 1972)

Posted on December 21, 2013 by admin

Having spent the 70s in Romania and missed much of the cultural fresh air, I am in a continuous process of recovering some of my lost time. Music was the only form of art which crossed the Iron Curtain thanks … Continue reading →

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Film: Chico & Rita (2010)

Posted on June 30, 2012 by admin

Hard to put ‘Chico & Rita’ is an a category and this is a testimony of the fact that animated movies, even those that are created in the ‘classical’ 2-D format like this one transcend nowadays genres and express more … Continue reading →

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Film: Le Chat du Rabbin (Antoine Delesvaux, Joann Sfarr – 2011)

Posted on June 14, 2011 by admin

Joann Sfar is the director of Gainsbourg, Une Vie Heroique, a film that I loved immensely, one of the best I have seen lately. I was not astonished to learn that his Jewish origins are doubled by some Belgian identity, … Continue reading →

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