luni, 16 februarie 2026
The Secret Agent wins at Spirit Awards !
marți, 16 decembrie 2025
The Secret Agent /O Agente Secreto (2025)
Kleber Mendonça Filho's follow-up to Bacurau is O Agente secreto. 2025's Cannes award winner for best actor -Walter Moura !and best director, Golden Globe nominated and soon Oscar nominated-Brazil's entry for best foreign film.
Also Udo Kier's last part as Hans, a great on screen goodbye.
2h38 of complicated narrative, non-liniar, Brazilian politics and 1970's history, plus a lot of love for the cinema, ecclectic soundtrack, one of the most interesting and best films of the year.joi, 27 noiembrie 2025
RIP Udo Kier
Udo Kier died on November 23d in Palm Springs. He was 83. One of the greatest actors. Ever. Only through his mad glaze, blue piercing eyes, he dominated every screen and stole every scene he was in.
Takes me some time and pain to write about him. I knew him, met in different occasions 4 times over the years. Interviewed him with Andrei on the set of One Point O in Bucharest in 2003. We spent hours in a derelict block of flats, now demolished, in a smoked flat, under the lights, into the night. Uberhot, hot early summer night in Bucharest (8th of may as the picture says). Udo came for a film and stayed for one more, got a part in Andy Garcia's Modigliani. His hair was dyed blonde for the part. We got Polaroids with him, each, this is Andrei's here. 
Then he was invited in Cluj at TIFF in 2006 and we hang out with him, even to a second hand shop where he bought a glorious long leather coat. This is another pic from Andrei, from one night to never forget, in the Diesel club, in the cellar VIP room (ha, another place that does not exist anymore...)
Then year passed, I had Udo's US address and mail, we sent him a script of a film still not done today. Didn't pass us to his agent or anything. I don't have the same mail address so that got lost.
In 2015 I was a guest of Grossmann film Festival, and spent more time with Udo, also there. We even went to see an art exhibition together.
Found another pic from Grossmann 2015, with my buddies, director Kritstjan Milic (Zivi i mrtvi) and Kapelmeister of the fest, Marko Mehtsun.
And last time I saw him in Cannes, on Rue des Antibes, in 2019, as he was there with the cast of Kleber Mendonça Filho's Bacurau, great film. We met on the street and had a chat. The last part of Udo is in Filho's new film, The Secret Agent. A beautiful heartfelt goodbye...
On the screen I saw him last in Hunters, season two where he played obviously on of his recurring characters, Adolf Hitler. Update: I just saw My Neighbor Adolf and liked it, Udo is at his best.
Goodbye Udo, it was a pleasure and an honor to meet you...
joi, 25 ianuarie 2024
Concertele anului 2024
Just 2 b clear, these are gigs and events I am interested in. Or some that we do with Transilvania Blues.
Copeland & Wragg-The Last Sundown -20 ianuarie, Rockstadt -Transilvania Blues Nights
Bombino -3 februarie, Control
Insula de Blues -21-23 iunie. Bacau. BB & The Blueshaks, Innes Sibun Band, Rob Tognoni, Boney Fields, etc. ANULAT !!!!
miercuri, 25 ianuarie 2023
Top albums 2022
well, mostly The Usual suspects, I have no urge to re-invent my taste....
here's my Top Ten from 2021....
Jeff Beck and Johnny Depp -18 (the most special album of the year, especially now with Jeff Beck gone :(...)
Ozzy Osbourne-Patient Nr. 9 (title track with Jeff Beck, many other guests incl. Tony Iommi, Eric Clapton)
The Smile-A Light for Attracting Attention (the band is formed by Radiohead members Thom Yorke, Jonny Greenwood with drummer Tom Skinner).



















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