‘Dracula’ Radu Jude Interview
As one of contemporary cinema’s most incisive auteurs, Radu Jude returns to the competition of the Locarno Film Festival withContinue Reading
Tag: Romania
Don’t Let Me Die ★★½
Quiet tragedy, absurdist humor, and unsettling undertones of genre cinema blend in Andrei Epure‘s gloomy feature film debut. Expanding onContinue Reading
Internal Zero ★½
On its slick surface, Eugene Jebeleanu‘s feature adaptation of Lavinia Braniște‘s eponymous novel is about a woman who desperately wantsContinue Reading
A Rebel Edge (documentary) ★
Bogdan Puslenghea‘s A Rebel Edge wants very much to be a melancholic candle flickering in the wind of a vanishingContinue Reading
Berlinale 2025: Wrap-Up, Award Winners & Highlights
I’ve been attending the Berlin International Film Festival in a semi-professional capacity for six years now, and if there’s oneContinue Reading
The Soul of the Balkans in Ulysses’ Gaze
Theo Angelopoulos occupies a niche and very specific place in the history of cinema: his presence as a titan andContinue Reading
Predictions for the 93rd Academy Awards
This year’s Academy Awards is perhaps the most unusual thus far. There’s no telling how the award winners this yearContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of January 2019
Alex Sitaras: This month is a little different than our usual Most Anticipated column. We only have one film, TheContinue Reading
Most Anticipated of May 2018
Kevin Jones: As the calendar turns to May, the release schedule for theaters is starting to favor blockbusters, leading toContinue Reading
Graduation ★★★½
Graduation is not the love letter to Romania that you might expect coming from a director, Cristian Mungiu, who isContinue Reading
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