În conversație cu Veronica Lazăr, Ștefan Baghiu și Radu Vancu despre cinemaul lui Radu Jude

Un eveniment al revistei Transilvania, găzduit de Rezidența 9 pe 9 februarie.   Mai jos un fragment din discuție, filmat de Verbs describe us:  

„Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn” as Radu Jude’s ars poetica

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 […]

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

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 […]

“…and Gypsies get many a beating…”: On the Significance of Radu Jude’s „Aferim!”

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 […]

Radu Jude’s Satirical Studies of Male Rage and Self-Pity

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 […]

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

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

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 […]

Conferința lui Assayas în limba română

Pe platforma cinefilă belgiană Sabzian poate fi citită acum și versiunea românească a conferinței susținute anul trecut de Olivier Assayas (la invitația Sabzian) pe tema stării actuale a cinemaului și a cinefiliei. Traducerea, realizată de Andreea Chiper și Teodora Leu (cu un pic de consultanță de la Veronica Lazăr, de la Victor Morozov și de la mine), a […]

„Mia își ratează răzbunarea” ca film-manifest al unei micro-culturi

Mia își ratează răzbunarea este cel de-al doilea film de lungmetraj al lui Bogdan Theodor Olteanu; ca și primul, Câteva conversații despre o fată foarte înaltă (2018), este un film românesc independent (adică nefinanțat de CNC). Mia (Ioana Bugarin) este o tânără actriță bucureșteană care, după ce e pălmuită de un iubit patologic de posesiv, decide să se […]