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Wild Carpathia
“Join Charlie Ottley as he ventures deep into the breath-taking but little known mountains and forests of Carpathia. Home to bears, wolves and the elusive Lynx and little known to the rest of the world, this is perhaps the last great wilderness in Europe, seen as never before. We will provide you with a unique [...]
George Pistereanu, best actor at the Stockholm film festival
“He convinced us that his dilemma was real. Forcing us to sympathize with his desperate actions. His performance left us breathless.” These words accompany the announcement that the young protagonist of the movie “If I want to whistle, I whistle” won the “best actor” prize at the Stockholm film festival 2010. Winners list here. We [...]
Romanians shine at the Gijón film festival
The “Principality of Asturia” prize for the best film at the 2010 Gijón film festival goes to “Tuesday after Christmas”, by Radu Muntean. Best actor – Mimi Brănescu, same movie Best actress – Mirela Oprişor and Maria Popistaşu, ex aequo, same movie Prize for the best art direction – Vali Ighigheanu and Andreea Popa, for [...]
Nicolae Ceausescu’s autobiography
“Cinema’s propagandistic power is in full effect in Andrei Ujica’s montage epic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceauşescu, a contemporary fresco starring Romania’s fallen ruler and his wife, Elena. A radical and chilling project, the film concludes the filmmaker’s trilogy exploring the end of communism which began with the landmark Videograms for a Revolution, co-directed with [...]
Tales from the Golden Era – pick it while it’s fresh
A rare 100% fresh rating on rottentomatoes.com – I don’t remember seeing something alike, and that after 17 reviews. “Amintiri din Epoca de Aur” actually literally tanslates “Memories from the Golden Era”, but I guess “tales” fits well too, as the movie consists of several short stories based on “urban legends” from the Communist time. [...]
Romanians can’t make a bad film
“Romanians can’t make a bad film. It’s, like, illegal in their country. Or at least not in their DNA. Over the last four years, filmmakers from the small Eastern European nation have swept into the south of France every May and put far bigger, more storied film cultures to shame, the U.S. and the fiercely [...]
You’ll be smurfing soon – Avatar after Oscar
It may be worth learning Romanian just to understand the spoof below. Luckily (just after I spent time translating it all), I found a subtitled version: P.S. I liked Avatar. But I liked this too .
Not all winners take it all
“If you don’t win a prize, no one looks at you”, said Florin Serban in an interview shortly after his return from the 2010 Berlin film festival, where he won the Silver Bear, the Grand Jury Prize and the Alfred Bauer Prize for cinematographic innovation. Wrong. Even if you win a prize, but it is [...]
The Silver Bear. Not in Braşov, at the Berlinale.
Outstanding result for the Romanian cinematography at the prestigious film festival in Berlin. Florin Şerban (not even Romanian cinefils know who he is) won not one prize, but two: The Silver Bear – The Jury Grand Prix and The Alfred Bauer Prize, “awarded in memory of the Festival founder, for a work of particular innovation” [...]
Ultimate survival – Transylvania
Bear Grylls, the Discovery Channel survival expert, has been dropped (literally) in the Transylvanian forest, a place “crawling with brown bears”. There you go, Bear. If you want to have a first-hand look at the wild Carpathian mountains, check out the movies below. Carpathians are considered ideal for hiking, being not as high as the [...]
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