Tag Archives: Romania

Review: Child’s Pose (2014): Romania’s Oscar Entry

Posted on February 19, 2014 by sheila

I’ve been watching the films coming out of Romania over the last 10 years with growing excitement. There’s a “New Wave” going on there right now, amazing films, social, political, spiritual, sometimes harrowing (4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days), … Continue reading →

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Year in Review: Shooting My Mouth Off in 2013

Posted on December 31, 2013 by sheila

Some of the things I’ve written in 2013, for my own site, and also other outlets. Thoughts on Memphis. “Memphis is wounded, and Memphis is obviously depressed. There are a lot of sad ghosts here. But Memphis does not forget. … Continue reading →

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12:08 East of Bucharest; Dir. Corneliu Porumboiu

Posted on April 14, 2013 by sheila

Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban, Ion Sapdaru, “12:08 East of Bucharest” Don’t let the unwieldy title put you off. And don’t let the fact that the film is about the revolutionary events of Dec. 22, 1989 in Romania, when Communism finally … Continue reading →

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Beyond the Hills (2012); Dir. Cristian Mungiu

Posted on April 9, 2013 by sheila

Loosely based on true events (very loosely), Beyond the Hills, the latest from Romanian director Cristian Mungiu, tells the story of an isolated windswept snowswept monastery in Romania where an exorcism goes horribly wrong. I suppose any exorcism could already … Continue reading →

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György Ligeti’s “Musica Ricercata” in Eyes Wide Shut

Posted on September 8, 2010 by sheila

I watched Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures last night. When he was a teenager, he was already becoming an accomplished photographer, with a dark room set up in his parents’ house. In 1945, when FDR died, he took the … Continue reading →

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