Radu Jude’s Montage Experiments with Documents of Oppression and Mass Murder

29 noiembrie 2022 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, Cărți de cinema, English, Film culture, Istoria filmului, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat Adrian Cioflâncă, Caricaturana, Eisenstein, Memories from the Eastern Front, montage, New Romanian Cinema, Punish and Discipline, Radu Jude, Revista Transilvania, Sergei Eisenstein, The Dead Nation, The Exit of the Trains, The Marshal's Two Executions, The Potemkinists, Transilvania, Uppercase Print, Veronica Lazăr

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 […]

A Slight Unease About Capitalism: Radu Jude’s „The Happiest Girl in the World” and the New Romanian Cinema

22 mai 2022 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Film culture, Istoria filmului, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat New Romanian Cinema, NRC, Radu Jude, The Happiest Girl in the World, Transilvania, Veronica Lazăr

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. […]

The NRC and Beyond: The Films of Radu Jude

12 aprilie 2022 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, Cărți de cinema, English, Film culture, Istoria filmului, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat New Romanian Cinema, NRC, Radu Jude, Romanian new wave, Transilvania, Veronica Lazăr

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 […]

„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 […]

The New Romanian Cinema in 10 sequence shots

7 noiembrie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în English, Fără categorie, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români | etichetat 12:08 East of Bucharest, 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Abbas Kiarostami, Aferim!, Alexandru Baciu, Alexandru Tatos, André Bazin, Aurora, Berlin Film Festival, Beyond the Hills, Bucharest Art Institute, Cannes Film Festival, Child's Pose, cinéma vérité, Corneliu Porumboiu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Călin Peter Netzer, Dardenne, Decree 770, direct cinema, documentarist factography, Dogme 95, Frederick Wiseman, Golden Bear, Graduation, Haute École d’art et de design of Geneva, Ioan Fiscuteanu, Iosif Demian, Italian neorealism, Ivana Mladenovic, John Cassavetes, kitchen-sink aesthetics, Lars von Trier, long takes, Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Lucian Pintilie, Maren Ade, Mircea Daneliuc, Monica Filimon, New Romanian Cinema, Nicolae Ceaușescu, Niki and Flo, observational documentary, Oleg Mutu, Palme d'Or, Police Adjective, Radu Jude, Radu Muntean, Raymond Depardon, real time, Romanian communism, Romanian new wave, Rosetta, Răzvan Rădulescu, sequence shots, social realism, Soldiers: Story from Ferentari, Stuff and Dough, The Celebration, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Happiest Girl in the World, The Idiots, The Paper Will Be Blue, Thomas Vinterberg, Toni Erdmann, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

This is based on notes for a public talk given at Stanford University’s Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES), where I am a Fulbright visiting scholar until the end of January 2018. The talk was given in November 2017 at the generous invitation of CREEES Faculty Director Pavle Levi (Associate Professor […]

An article in the „New Romanian Cinema” special issue of „Film Criticism”

11 octombrie 2017 · de Andrei Gorzo | în Critica de film, English, Istoria filmului, Noul Cinema Românesc, Regizori români, Teorie | etichetat 4 Months 3 Weeks and 2 Days, Alina Haliliuc, Amédée Ayfre, André Bazin, Andrei Pleșu, Annette Michelson, Aurora, “The Ontology of the Photographic Image.”, Beyond the Hills, Cahiers du cinéma, Christian Ferencz-Flatz, Corneliu Porumboiu, Costi Rogozanu, Cristi Puiu, Cristian Mungiu, Cristian Tudor Popescu, Dardenne, David Bordwell, direct cinema, Film Comment, Film Criticism, Frederick Wiseman, Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Jesse Schlotterbeck, John Cassavetes, Luc Dardenne, Lucian Maier, Marian Sorin Rădulescu, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, New Romanian Cinema, observational documentary, One Floor Below, Peter Wollen, Radu Muntean, Raymond Depardon, Roberto Rossellini, Roland Barthes, the ambiguity of the real, The Death of Mr. Lăzărescu, The Paper Will Be Blue, Tuesday after Christmas, When Evening Falls on Bucharest or Metabolism

The journal Film Criticism has a special issue on the New Romanian Cinema. It is edited by Alina Haliliuc and Jesse Schlotterbeck and features contributions by Chris Cagle, Anca Caramelea, Raluca Iacob, Marie-Louise Paulesc, Chris Robé, and Jennifer Stob. I have also contributed with an article: „In the Name of the ‘Ambiguity of the Real’: Romanian […]

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