From the website of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust

My paper “The Battle over The Quiet American”, written for this blog in 2017, has just been published on the website of the Graham Greene Birthplace Trust. A version of it will also appear in the Trust’s newsletter.

Reworking Graham Greene: Robert Stone’s „A Flag for Sunrise”

5 iulie 2020 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English | etichetat A Burnt-Out Case, A Flag for Sunrise, Alexander Dubček, Alfred Hitchcock, American empire, Brighton Rock, Carol Reed, Che Guevara, Child of Light, Cold War, colonial novel, counterculture, cultural imperialism, Death of the Black-Haired Girl, Dog Soldiers, drug culture, Fredric Jameson, Gabriel García Márquez, Graham Greene, Heart of the Darkness, Ho Chi Minh, J. G. Ballard, John D. McClure, Joseph Conrad, Madison Smartt Bell, Martin Amis, neo-colonialism, Outerbridge Reach, post-colonial, Robert Solotaroff, Robert Stone, Salvador Allende, Terry Eagleton, The Comedians, The Eye You See With: Selected Nonfiction, The Heart of the Matter, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, The Power and the Glory, The Quiet American, The Third Man, Thomas Hardy, whiskey priest

Graham Greene’s influence on the American writer Robert Stone (1937-2015) was always stated by reviewers as self-evident; it is a commonplace in English-language reviews of Stone’s novels. In his 2020 biography of Stone, Child of Light, Madison Smartt Bell dismisses these comparisons, insisting that the similarities between the two novelists were superficial – a matter […]

On Radu Jude’s „Barbarians”

21 decembrie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Film culture, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians", Alain Resnais, Alex Bogdan, Antonescu, Close Up, Field Marshal Antonescu, Ion Antonescu, Ion Siminie, Military Museum, negaționism, Night and Fog, Radu Jude, Sergiu Nicolaescu, The Holocaust in cinema, The Mirror, Veronica Lazăr

The most recent issue of Close Up (UNATC’s journal of Film Studies) features an article by Veronica Lazăr and me, on Radu Jude’s bold and exciting 2018 film „I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians”. Below is an excerpt. The entire article can be read here. The entire issue of Close Up is here. Excerpt: […] One […]

At the Viennale

4 noiembrie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Film culture, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat "La Gomera", Corneliu Porumboiu, Patrick Holzapfel, The Whistlers, Viennale

Walking around Vienna with the excellent Patrick Holzapfel, discussing Corneliu Porumboiu’s La Gomera/ The Whistlers and the state of Romanian film criticism:

„Barbarii” pe DVD

17 octombrie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English, Film culture, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat "I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians", Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari, Cele două execuții ale mareșalului, Ion Antonescu, Oglinda Începutul adevărului, Ovidiu Gologan, Radu Jude, Sergiu Nicolaescu, Silviu Gheție, The Marshal's Two Executions, Veronica Lazăr

„Îmi este indiferent dacă în istorie vom intra ca barbari” (Radu Jude, 2018) a ieșit pe DVD. Bonusuri: un scurtmetraj de Jude, Cele două execuții ale mareșalului, care juxtapune documentul cinematografic al execuției lui Ion Antonescu (filmată de Ovidiu Gologan) cu reconstituirea acesteia de către Sergiu Nicolaescu, pentru filmul Oglinda – Începutul adevărului (1994); și o broșură conținând, pe lângă […]

Of noble Thracian tribesmen and medieval warrior-statesmen

17 octombrie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, Cărți de cinema, English, Istoria filmului, Regizori români | etichetat Onoriu Colăcel, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism: Historical Films as Propaganda and Spectacle

For Studies in Eastern European Cinema I reviewed Onoriu Colăcel’s recent book The Romanian Cinema of Nationalism: Historical Films as Propaganda and Spectacle. (Only the beginning of the review can be read for free.)

The Greene-Solomon Letters

6 august 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English | etichetat Graham Greene, Petre Solomon

My article on the correspondence between Graham Greene and his Romanian translator Petre Solomon has just been published on the website of the Graham Greene Trust (and in the Trust’s quarterly newsletter): „Greene never returned to Romania after his 1962 visit, but he and Petre Solomon exchanged many letters in the course of the next […]

„Police, Adjective”: The Words and the Things

1 februarie 2019 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat 4 Months 3 Weeks 2 Days, Close Up, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Dragoș Bucur, indexicality, New Romanian Cinema, Peter Wollen, Police Adjective, Radu Muntean, Romanian new wave, Signs and Meaning in the Cinema, Stuff and Dough, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Paper Will Be Blue, UNATC, Vlad Ivanov

I have an article in the new issue of Close Up (a Film Studies journal edited by UNATC). It’s on Police, Adjective and it considers Porumboiu’s film as an illustration of Peter Wollen’s influential 1969 adaptation of Charles Sanders Peirce’s trichotomy of signs – iconic, indexical and symbolic signs – to the field of film theory. Below is an excerpt. […]

A Pintilie Obituary

1 decembrie 2018 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Film culture, Istoria filmului, Regizori români | etichetat "Romanianness", An Unforgettable Summer, Cannes Film Festival, Carnival Scenes, Chekhov, Cigarettes and Coffee, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, I. L. Caragiale, Last Stop Paradise, Lucian Pintilie, Maia Morgenstern, modernism, New Romanian Cinema, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Niki and Flo, Quinzaine des réalisateurs, Radu Jude, Romanian new wave, Răzvan Rădulescuy, Răzvan Vasilescu, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, Stuff and Dough, Tertium Non Datur, The Afternoon of a Torturer, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Oak, The Reconstruction, The Reenactment, Too Late, Victor Rebengiuc, Ward No. 6

Here is my obituary of Lucian Pintilie, written for the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema. (Unfortunately, it is not freely accessible in its entirety.)

Making Sense of the NRC: Three Perspectives (excerpt)

30 iunie 2018 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, Cărți de cinema, English, Film culture, Noul Cinema Românesc, Polemici, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat "tradition of quality", André Bazin, Antoine de Baecque, auteur criticism, Bogdan Popa, Ceaușescu, Claude Autant-Lara, Close Up, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, film studies, François Truffaut, George Mihăiță, Hawks, Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, Hitchcock, Iulian Puiu, James Dean, Jean Delannoy, La cinéphilie Invention d'un regard histoire d'une culture 1944-1968, László Strausz, Lucian Pintilie, Monica Filimon, National University of Theatre and Film Bucharest, New Romanian Cinema, New Wave, NRC, Pastoral Symphony, Police Adjective, Reconstruction, Reenactment, Romanian new wave, Sexul și capitalul. O teorie a filmului românesc, Sieranevada, Sorin Medeleni, Studies in Eastern European Cinema, The Red and the Black, Vlad Ivanov, Vladimir Găitan | 1 comentariu

A new issue of Close Up is out (a Film Studies journal edited by the National University of Theatre and Film, Bucharest) and I have an article in it. The article provides a critical look at some of the academic literature produced in English, in the year 2017, on the subject of the New Romanian Cinema (or the Romanian […]

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