A new article on Radu Jude’s filmmaking, co-authored with Veronica Lazăr. It explores Jude’s 2021 Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn, considering it as a summation of the aesthetic and thematic concerns pursued by the Romanian director in his earlier films. The article also includes a discussion of Jude’s wonderful short film Semiotic Plastic, which […]
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A new article co-authored with Veronica Lazăr. It discusses critically the following films—short and feature-length—by Radu Jude: The Dead Nation (2017), The Marshal’s Two Executions (2018), Punish and Discipline (2019), Uppercase Print (2020), The Exit of the Trains (2020), Caricaturana (2021), Memories from the Eastern Front (2022), and The Potemkinists (2022). In four of them—The […]
Another article co-authored with Veronica Lazăr. It discusses Radu Jude’s 2016 film Scarred Hearts, adapted from Max Blecher’s autobiographical novel with the same title (1937), as well as other writings of his. It is structured in four parts. The first references André Bazin’s celebrated essay on Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest, bringing it to […]
A new article I have co-authored with Veronica Lazăr. It’s about Radu Jude’s 2015 film Aferim!. It considers the film as a revisionist take on the Romanian tradition of historical cinema. It discusses Aferim!’s originality as a depiction of the origins of contemporary Romanian anti-Roma racism. It analyzes Jude’s artistic strategies—for instance, his lavish and […]
I have a new essay in Bright Lights Film Journal. It’s a piece I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. It is called „Two Perspectives on Sainthood in 1951: Roberto Rossellini’s Europe ’51 and Graham Greene’s The End of the Affair”.
This new article in English, co-authored with Veronica Lazăr, discusses four Radu Jude films – the shorts Alexandra (2008) and It Can Pass Through the Wall (2014), the never released, 60-minute long A Film for Friends (2011), and Jude’s official second feature, Everybody in Our Family (2012) – grouping them together as satirical studies of […]
This new article co-authored with Veronica Lazăr – the second in a series built around the films of Radu Jude – discusses the aesthetics and the politics of the so-called New Romanian Cinema (a major post-2005 sensation on the international art-cinema circuit), succintly assessing its novelty in both a national and an international cinematic context. […]
15 aprilie, Cinema Elvira Popescu din București, după o proiecție cu West Side Story în cadrul American Independent Film Festival.
An article that I co-authored with Veronica Lazăr has just been published in the journal Transilvania. It’s in English, it’s open-access and it’s the first in a series. It parses the major existing literature, in English and Romanian, on the New Romanian Cinema (also called the Romanian New Wave) which became an international film-festival sensation […]
This is a draft for a talk that I recently gave in Berkhamsted, where I had the honour of being invited to the 22nd edition of the Graham Greene International Festival (30 September – 3 October 2021). Let me start by saying that I’m absolutely thrilled to be here at the Graham Greene International Festival. Thank […]
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