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 […]

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

The NRC and Beyond: The Films of Radu Jude

Making Sense of the NRC: Three Perspectives (excerpt)

Two new books about the New Romanian Cinema