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 […]

Two new books about the New Romanian Cinema

21 noiembrie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Cărți de cinema, English, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat 13-19 iulie 1998 – Azilul de bătrâni Craiova, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, A Girl's Tear, Alex Cistelecan, Alexandra Gulea, Alexandru Baciu, Alexandru Tatos, André Bazin, Andreea Păduraru, Andrei State, Andrei Ujică, Angela Goes on, anti-communism, Antonioni, Aurora, Bazin as Modernist, Bazinian realism, Bobby Păunescu, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Cigarettes and Coffee, cinematic modernism, Colin MacCabe, communism, Contemporary Romanian Cinema: The History of an Unexpected Miracle, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Dardenne brothers, Didi Danquart, Dogme 95, Dominique Nasta, Filmul tranziției. Contribuții la interpretarea cinemaului românesc "nouăzecist", Francesca, Frederick Wiseman, Gabriela Filippi, Graduation, Hacker, Harun Farocki, Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, Incursiuni fenomenologice în noul film românesc, Iosif Demian, John Cassavetes, Kornél Mundruczó, László Strausz, Lucian Blaga, Lucian Bratu, Lucian Pintilie, Lucruri care nu pot fi spuse altfel, Lucruri care nu pot fi spuse altfel. Un mod de a gîndi cinemaul André Bazin la Cristi Puiu, Microphone Test, Miorița, Mircea Daneliuc, modernist self-reflexivity, Monica Filimon, New Romanian Cinema, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Niki and Flo, NRC, Offset, Police Adjective, Politicile filmului. Contribuții la interpertarea cinemaului românesc contemporan, post-communism, Radu Muntean, Raymond Depardon, realist-modernist aesthetics, Reconstruction, Romanian new wave, Răzvan Rădulescu, self-reflexivity, Sequences, Sieranevada, Stere Gulea, Stuff and Dough, Tact, Teodosie cel Mic, The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Mioritic Space, The Paper Will Be Blue, The Presidential Commission for the Analysis of the Romanian Communist Dictatorship, Traian Băsescu, Viața și faptele lui Ilie Cazane, Videograms of a Revolution, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

Monica Filimon, Cristi Puiu, University of Illinois Press, 2017; László Strausz, Hesitant Histories on the Romanian Screen, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Monica Filimon’s Cristi Puiu is the first book in English about the film director and writer who did more than anyone else to redefine Romanian cinema in the 2000s. An assistant professor of English […]

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The Greene-Solomon Letters

„Police, Adjective”: The Words and the Things

A Pintilie Obituary

Making Sense of the NRC: Three Perspectives (excerpt)

Two new books about the New Romanian Cinema

Notes on Harun Farocki’s and Andrei Ujică’s „Videograms of a Revolution” (1992)