No Other Choice (2025)

1st film I saw on 2026 it's one of the best of 2025 and one of Park Chan-wook's best. No Other Choice aka Eojjeolsuga eobsda.  It's also the offical Korean Submission for Best International film at the Oscars and it's nominated for 3 Golden Globes Awards. No Other Choice premiered in the 2025 Venice Film Fest Competition. It won Best Director in Sitges FF. 

It's limited in Romanian Cinemas now, so try to see it on the big screen, it's worthy. Just peropeare for slower development, the film has 2h19 mins.

I follow the Korean director for 25 years, ever since he came to Bucharest with his 1st feature, JSA (Joint Security Area) at the 1st Festasia fest edition.  That was before Oldboy, Mr. and Mrs. Vengeance, Thirst, Handmaiden and Stoker. Saw most of his oeuvre, also the HBO series The Sympathiser, so I can say that this one it's one of his best. 

Lee Byung-hun who is South Korean leading man is here a Paper Man, formerly "Pulp Man of the Year 2019." He was also in PCWook's JSA, in A Bittersweet Life, Squid Game series, even in G.I. Joe. He gets back at working with PCW after 25 years. Here he is a plain family man, with a desperate will to get back to his job that was downsized.  Son Ye-jin is great too as his wife Miri, and so is the son Si-one and the daughter Ri-One- playing cello. And the two dogs (Si-Two and Ri-Two). And all the supporting characters. Great supporting characters !

It's a Korean Le Coupert / The Axe, based on Donald  E.Westlake 1997 novel. It was made before by Costa-Gavras in 2005 as The Ax, a great black comedy, merciless, starring José Garcia. But Wook-Chan goes even further in absurdity and satire. He co-wrote this with Don McKellar, they worked together before on The Sympathiser. The film is produced by Costa-Gavras family and it's dedicated to the Greek director, who kept the rights of the novel and gave them to Park Chan. The film was supposed to be in English first (starting 2009) but kept developing.

Via IMDB: During a live discussion with Costa-Gavras at the 2019 Busan International Film Festival, Park told audiences that he was still working on his adaptation of Westlake's novel. The film was described by Park as a "lifetime project" and that while he hadn't begun filming it yet, he wished "to make this film as my masterpiece." Gavras, who still held the rights to the book, had helped Park to develop the project. The film was set to be an English-language picture, with Don McKellar co-writing the script alongside Park.

The design is fabulous too, from the bonsai and the greenhouse to the seasons change, going from summer to winter (it was shot in a period of five months, from August 2024 to January 2025). The colors are very important for the transitions and the story. Impeccable widescreen (2.35 : 1) cinematography  (by Kim Woo-hyung who worked before with the director on The Little Drummer Girl series) and editing (Kim Sang-bum, Park's editor since JSA), adding to the plot points and directing. 

Great score too, and great idea of a cello subplot, by Chan-wook Park's collaborator, Cho Young-Wuk.  The score includes incidental classical music, Mozart piano concerto (no. 23!), Marin Marais and pop hits, Korean and American (Hold On I'm Coming by Sam and Dave -1966), edited and directed on camera (one set-piece might as well be the best Cinema scene of 2025!-and the funniest -with subtitles too ;).

4 out of 5 / 8 out of 10 !!!

“I've always been trying to follow the footsteps of the great masters of cinema, most of whom have passed away today. I've tried very hard to reach their level. And I think in certain scenes or certain films, I might have reached a similar level, but there's still a very long way to go. So, when I think about how many more films I can make for the rest of my life, I feel very rushed.”

Park Chan-wook 

*the screenplay of the film in English can be found here !!! 

Pale Flower (1964)

Pale Flower /Kawaita hana is a one-of-a-kind Noir pschedelic by Masahiro Shinoda, New Wave of Japonese cinema director. Closer to Le Samourai by Melville, or something by Antonioni, than the Japonese cinema of the era. Also keener to Kitano's earlier films. Spellbinding black and white tale of obsession, gambling and yakuza, nihillistic, downbeat existentialism. Ryô Ikebe is great as gangster Muraki, a quintesential film noir icon and Mariko Kaga as unaproachable Saeki a real pale flower indeed. The car race at night seems more appropiate in a French or Italian new vague film. Here is just hypnotic. 

Atmospeheric score by Toru Takemitsu. 

Also, this is one of Top Ten films of Michael Mann, "for the opening scenes alone". 

4 1/2 out of 5 / 9 out of 10 !!!

Mickey 17 (2025)

Our entire life is a punishment. 

(Mickey Barnes)

The highly expected (and most postponed release) new film of Bong Joon Ho, Mickey 17, with Robert Pattison in Multiple roles, is so-so. Frankly I don't get the enthusiastic positive reviews. The humor is lame at best with Pattison taking his ques from Jim Carrey's performance in Dumb and Dumber ! It's the Multiplicity Effect all over, clones (or how they're called here, "expendables" ), are getting dumb and dumber...duh. The film finally premiered at the Berlinale Film Fest in February with a worldwide release of March 7th. 

Budgeted at 118 mill. $ (!!!), this is surely a flop for Warner Bros. whom imo did not put a lot of faith in the finished project. The whole thing feels uninspired, the jokes are and you don't care much for Mickey or the Mickeys. Bong's humour is very personal and it worked in all his films prior to this, from The Host to Mother, also the social commentary, class commentary, leftism, was much better in Snowpiercer, which was his 1st external project out of Korea, then a flop, now a cult film and a s***ty cash-in neverending TV (streaming) series. That is why I am gonna go gloves off on Bong here. Wasting four years on this film when you were on top of the world, able to do any film you'd like, totally free of charge (he had final cut on this!). 

The source book is entitled Mickey 7 !!!, not to be confused with the 60's Mickey One ;), the material was customized by Bong for a more personal film for him, his 1st in the USA (shot in the UK Warner Leavesden studios), a follow-up to his all winning Parasite (2019). 

Shot impeccably by Darius Khondji. Dark as his TM and white -ice (the planet Nifleheim) and claustrophobic industrial corridors and chambers. Music, some of it uninspired, some good, by Bong's collaborator  Jung Jae-il (Okja, Parasite/ and the Squid Game series). 

Mark Ruffalo plays over-the-top, same Grand Guignol style as in Poor Things but here he is more like an impression of an Vincent D'Onofrio but she surely channels Trump. Toni Colette too, operatic hysteric evil lady. The aliens/monsters "creepers" are cool, but I pretty doubt they'll make a merch out of them. Starship Troopers "bugs" came to mind, but with the cuteness required. The Korean designer did work before for Bong on The Host.  

2 1/2 out of 5 / 5 out of 10 

The Killer (2024)

 *not to be confused with David Fincher's thriller with the same name of 2023. 

This is John Woo's THE KILLER, his own remake to his famous cult film The Killer from 1989, that premiered (streaming :( on Peacock on Aug. 23 2024.

it's woke but is more than that.

It is John Woo's French film, it's an homage to Le Samourai (1967) even more than the original Killer was. In the circumstance of recent Alain Delon's demise, this works more nostalgic than intended. Shot in Paris of no limits A budget and in touristic spots, plus the church from the original and the pigeons TM. And a goldfish. A samurai (!) sword. A black hat. And a crossword pun. And bikers on relanti. In flames. Woo-ish. 

Woo will be 78 this September (22), so he's not getting any younger. His influences on the action cinema were in the '90's. That's why they called him overseas, after hardboiled (1992). He started with Hard Target (soft spot as I was a publicist on it, back in 1994's Media Pro Pictures distribution), moved on to Broken Arrow and hit the mark with Face/Off. His last great film was Mission: Impossible in 2000. After the failure of Paycheck he went back to China but I didn't resonate with any of his films there (actually I only saw the 1st Red Cliff). 

The man is surely a woman now -Zee-Nathalie Emmanuel-from the Fast & Furious series ( a la Nikita, there's even a quote of that, and that's Tcheky Karyo's cameo) and the cop -Sey-Omar Sy-international star since Inotochables- is black. The singer is given more to do and done, and the plot is mambojumbo-ish to the maxxx. The remake has been in the works from the 90's and I think it's great that finally Woo gets to re-do it and in Paris of all places. The script is credited to Brian Helgeland, Josh Sanders and Matt Stueken (surely not all together, , but Woo sure added up his own marks. The whole thing is marred by the need to switch to English all the time, and keep some French just for the picturesque. 

But Omar Sy could've been Belmondo. Le Flic.And Nathalie Emmanuel, Delon, Le Samourai.

Woo's daughter, Angeles Woo is acting in it as a killer. Name of her character, Chi Mai ;)

She's also a co-producer.

Lots of juicy parts, Eric Cantona is a Top gangster, Said Taghmaoui is an Arab prince, Diana Silvers is Jenn, the singer, victim and target, Sam Worthington is Finn, the contracter of Zee, he does a Strong Irish accent complete with the annoying "beat of my heart' bit in Irish. A stand-out, stunt woman Aurelia Ager as the baddie blonde evil henchie with ponytails Juliet, her 1st real acting part (hope she goes Zoe Bell's way). 

The music is key, Marco Beltrami at the helm, with Buck Sanders helping him, doing an Ennio Morricone tribute, with whisting, a woman operatic voice, complete with a song (that integrates the film-"Introuvable", sang by Jorane), Eric Serra style. There's even a cue from Le Samourai, "Costello dans la ville", from the score by Francois de Roubaix. 

Very well lit cinematography by Mauro Fiore, Antoine Fuqua and Oscar winner for Avatar cinematographer. Edited by Zach Staenberg, the guy who cut all the Matrix trilogy.

So, it's flawed, it's naive but I could feel it's goodhearted as opposed to cringe, and someone else would've done it worse. 

It looks like a Europacorps prod. from the 90's, it's been in development for so long, Universal studios bound, and though it ended on streaming.

Pity it wasn't in theaters, even if it's not John Wick (a series that took from Woo big time), it's his Grandfather and granddaughters. Inc. 

3 out of 5, 6 out of 10 !

Only the River Flows (2023)

Only the River Flows by Wei Shujun. Premiered in Cannes Un Certain Regard in 2023.

 He bian de cuo wu or in Romanian, Raul Ucigas (not That River Wild).

Saw this in the cinema in April this year, just me and some guy, ran for about 5 shows on a week...

so I feel privileged.

It's like a Chinese "True Detective", as much as a Chinese cop in 1995 can be living in a communist world, his inquiry in an abandoned theatre (cos' people don't go to the cinema anymore, the cinema gimmick used also in episode one of The Sympathiser: "Death Wish")

and i guess some inspirations by Tarkovski -dreams, visions, premonitions, more dreams or aren't they dreams...

music score from Beethoven to Howard Shore's music from Cronenberg's Crash, re-used here. And it quite worked.

quite a curio, not sure I understood all of it but that's my Chinese Democracy;)

Perfect Days (2023)

"Now is Now and Then is Then."

Perfect Days is a masterpiece, a Japanese film made in Tokyo in Japanese by a German filmmaker. Wim Wenders, made at 77 years of age. Like Wenders' Tokyo Story. 

But Yasujiro Ozu is Wenders' master. And Ozu being a poet, this homage to him (Wenders did also a documentary, Tokyo-Ga, about his trip to Ozu's Tokyo, back in 1985), is also a Poem. A poem in the rhyme of Rock 'n Roll. 

Do yourself a Favor and do go to the cinema. It's in limited release and it will vanish shortly. Kudos again Bad Unicorn for bringing it on the big screen ! Click on the link , scroll down and you'll see where it screens in Romania. ! And if you go, stay 'til the end of the credits !!! 

It's slow, it's dreamlike, it's funny and tender, it's beautiful and sad, it's heartfelt. About the meaning of life (really!). Not in the Monty Pythonesque sense. More like budhism. 

Absolutely gorgeous soundtrack, Lou Reed (the title comes from Lou's "Perfect Day" song) , Patti Smith, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, Van Morrison, Ottis Redding, Nina Simone, The Animals & House of the Rising Sun (in Japanese even), Sachiko Kanenobu, and all with a purpose. Like a shiver in the trees leaves.

One of last year's best, should've been in my 2023 Top Films but I saw it in january 2024 ! It is nominated for the Oscar for best foreign film. Won best actor in Cannes and Koji Yakusho's performance is one of the best there is. Also won the Ecumenical Jury in Cannes. 

Also it's one of Wenders' best, up there (for me) with Paris Texas, Das Himmel uber Berlin, Der Amerikanische Freund, Der Stand der Dinge. Shot beautifully by Wenders' collaborator since Land of Plenty (204), Franz Lustig, in the academical format of 1.33.1 (4:3), sharply edited and with a subtle sound design (re: the leaves, the dreams). 

great interview with Wenders on Eye for Film here.

Wenders' favorite films on Kombini Video here. A lot on Ozu at the beginning of the video.

Komorebi...

                    

Boy and the Heron, The (2023)

The Boy and the Heron / Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka /Baiatul și stârcul/ is playing in Romanian theaters (distributor's communique here) .  Amazingly. I guess it's a also the first film by Hayao Miyazaki to play here (well, Ponyo played also in theaters). I saw it (in Japanese, with Romanian subtitles) on Friday, opening night and was enchanted & mesmerized.

The other one I saw on a cinema was Spirited Away / Chichujiro at a festival I guess, in Elvira Popescu in Bucharest.  But his films are avaliable to stream on Netflix, also in the subtitled Japanese version, not dubbed in English, from Porco Rosso to Kiki's Delivery Service, Howl's Moving Castle, Nausicaa, My Neighbor Totoro, Princess Mononoke, Ponyo to Spirited Away, his best film imo, and The Wind Rises, his last film up to Heron, in 2013. I mean it's a golden treasure, espcially for those who looked for these films years and years, before streaming and internet downloads.

Heron it's one of this year best films, best soundtracks (beautiful score by Joe Hisaishi, legendary Japanese composer which I personally know from Takeshi Kitano in the early 90's), and it will win the Oscar for animation for sure. And the Golden Globe. But more so, it's one of Miyazaki's forte, his comeback after 10 years, at 82. He could only animate about one minute of film per month so the work on the film took more than 5 years (he started it in 2016). A very sensible film, hand-drawn as all Ghibli films, and Japan's most expensive film to date. Also a world box office record.

I empathize all these facts because I was amazed of how many people who like films haven't heard of him and/or don't wanna go see this cos it's an animee. Get a grip and get to the cinema ! Then talk to me. ok?

The Japanese title/n / Kimitachi wa dô ikiru ka / (translated as "How Do You Live?") is the same as a 1937 novel by Genzaburô Yoshino, writer of children's literature, the book has significant meaning for the main character in the film.

Final Cut / Coupez! (2022)

Coupez! (Cut, but English title Final Cut, 2022) was the opening film at Cannes Film Festival in 2022. A high profile remake of Japanese cult classic from 2017, One Cut of the Dead, written & directed by Michel Hazanavicius (OSS, L'artiste, Le redoutable) and distributed by Wild Bunch. A film-in-film, meta-film if ever was one;), zombies included (I think worse we can do is to spoil it!),  the making of a Z grade zombie film. It is one of the year's most fun and underrrated films. Think in comparison of the (a)void The Dead Don't Die, another opening in Cannes, this time by Jim Jarmusch in his one-too-many deconstruction of genres. My two-bits on that here!

But Coupez! has to be seen especially in its construction of 3 acts, 1st and 3d mirroring one another. I have seen only bits of the original Japanese which was a low-budget 25.000$ production but it was a huge hit (25 million $ BO) with awards in over 20 genre festivals. The French remake had a 4 million euros budget and known actors in the lead, Romain  Duris as the neurotic director, Berenice Bejo as his actress/makeup artist wife.  It's more sophisticated (mais oui, c"est français) and also nods the Japanese original, with members of the original cast, adding a most funny sound effects technician. The Z comes from the Z channel, a genre streaming initiative. You just have to watch the one-take act 1 (first half hour) with patience and then you'll be rewarded ;) Crazy rhythm and joie-de-cinema, Day for Night avec beaucoup du faux sang!

Oscar 2020 @ALDsMovieland

so, again my predictions on this year Oscars, the 92th edition !


it's a shame they wont be broadcasted on Romanian TV, as all the movies were screening on the cinemas, a firstie after years of broadcasting from tvr to hbo to protv and digi24 !Huge shame, and the promised Twitter does not allow you 2 conncebt, and the ripoffs of you tube, oy...
But hey,
I just went and saw again on the BIG, i said biig (yes, Berceni), i mean, HUGE SCREEN !!! my all time faved Once Upon a Time in.. Hollywood (see review here).
and my top of 2019 films here !
 It's a great opportunity for Boon Jong Ho's Parasite but 1917 will win ! if not, there's still unpredictabilty in them old and overblamed awards...
so Bold and underlined are my predictions of who will win. Who should win or i'd like to win, surely OUATIH and QT.  And yes, UNCUT GEMS, not even nominated, but who won BIG at the Independent Spirit Awards. , yes baby, Adam Sandler !!!

Best Picture

 “1917”

“Ford v Ferrari” aka Le Mans '66 

“The Irishman”

“Jojo Rabbit”

“Joker”

“Little Women”

“Marriage Story”

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”

“Parasite”  (and Parasite won !!!!)  Bravos ! history has been made ! First film in a foreign language -and film-that wins the Oscar for best picture !!!

Best  Director


Sam Mendes, “1917”

Martin Scorsese, “The Irishman”

Todd Phillips, “Joker”

Quentin Tarantino, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” (my faved)

Bong Joon Ho, “Parasite” HE WON !!!! 
 -Well, hell yeah ! It is your night, Bong !


Best Actor 

Joaquin Phoenix, “Joker”

Antonio Banderas, “Pain and Glory”

Leonardo DiCaprio, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”

Adam Driver, “Marriage Story”

Jonathan Pryce, “The Two Popes”

Best Actress

Renée Zellweger, “Judy”

Cynthia Erivo, “Harriet”

Scarlett Johansson, “Marriage Story”

Saoirse Ronan, “Little Women”

Charlize Theron, “Bombshell”

Best Supporting Actor

Brad Pitt, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood”

Tom Hanks, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood”

Anthony Hopkins, “The Two Popes”

Al Pacino, “The Irishman”

Joe Pesci, “The Irishman”

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Cliff Booth !!! "I'll try" ! 

Best Supporting Actress

Laura Dern, “Marriage Story”

Kathy Bates, “Richard Jewell”

Scarlett Johansson, “Jojo Rabbit”

Florence Pugh, “Little Women”

Margot Robbie, “Bombshell”

Original Screenplay

 “Parasite,” Bong Joon Ho, Han Jin Won

“Knives Out,” Rian Johnson

“Marriage Story,” Noah Baumbach

“1917,” Sam Mendes and Krysty Wilson-Cairns

“Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood,” Quentin Tarantino (tight bet)

Adapted Screenplay

 “Jojo Rabbit,” Taika Waititi

“The Irishman,” Steven Zaillian

“Joker,” Todd Phillips, Scott Silver

“Little Women,” Greta Gerwig

“The Two Popes,” Anthony McCarten

International Feature

 “Parasite,” South Korea

“Corpus Christi,” Poland

“Honeyland,” North Macedonia

“Les Misérables,” France

“Pain and Glory,” Spain

Original Score

 “Joker,” Hildur Gudnadottir

“Little Women,” Alexandre Desplat

“Marriage Story,” Randy Newman

“1917,” Thomas Newman

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker,” John Williams

Cinematography

“1917,” Roger Deakins (after Blade Runner 2049, th second Oscar for the master RD)

“The Irishman,” Rodrigo Prieto

“Joker,” Lawrence Sher

“The Lighthouse,” Jarin Blaschke

“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” Robert Richardson (sorry, RR :( loved the way you shot OUATIH)

Visual Effects

 “1917”

“Avengers: Endgame”

“The Irishman”

“The Lion King”

“Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker”

I wish IRISHMAN would win , and should, but the sfx are used as a makeup tool so they will go with 1917 !
*****
so back and forth, Le Mans'66 for sound editing and editing and more 1917 and probably Little Women for costumes, American Factory (watch on netflix) for feature doc.  Elton John might win best song and Toy Story IV animation. I don't really care about the shorts and short docs right now...
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on the bright side , out of 10 -ten nominations !- OUATIH took home the production design award  (Barbara Ling), Kudos !,  the supporting actor award - Brad Pitt, with a nice speech, obviously he was touched: "Once upon a time in Hollywood, ain’t that the truth …"

Special Oscar la Cinemateca Patria -partea a doua-

Special Oscar la Cinemateca Patria, Brasov -a doua săptămână

Luni 23 februarie
20:00 Seara Filmului European / Special Oscar
La Dolce Vita (Italia, 1960) copie nouă, remasterizată acum !!!
Regia: Federico Fellini
Cu: Marcello Mastroianni, Anita Ekberg, Anouk Aimée
Dramă, comedie
Durata: 174 min.
Palme d'Or la festivalul de la Cannes
4 nominalizări la Oscar și Premiul Oscar pentru cele mai bune costume
In memoriam Anita Ekberg

Marți 24 februarie
20:00 Seara filmului asiatic / Special Oscar
Kagemusha (Japonia, 1980)
Regia: Akira Kurosawa
Cu: Tatsuya Nakadai, Tsutomu Yamazaki
Dramă, istoric
Durata: 162 min.
Palme d'Or la Festivalul de la Cannes 1980
Premiul César pentru cel mai bun film străin
2 nominalizări la Oscar

Miercuri 25 februarie
20:00 Seara Doc And Roll / Special Oscar
Aproape celebri / Almost Famous (SUA, 2000)
The Extended Cut (39 de minute în plus): Untitled !
Regia: Cameron Crowe
Cu: Billy Crudup, Patrick Fugit, Kate Hudson
Comedie, muzică
Durata: 161 min
4 nominalizări și premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun scenariu original.
In memoriam Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Joi 26 februarie
20:00 Comedy Classics / Special Oscar
Nebraska ( SUA, 2013)
Regia: Alexander Payne
Cu: Bruce Dern, Will Forte, Stacy Keach
Comedie dramatică
Durata: 117 min.
6 nominalizări la Oscar
Premiul pentru cel mai bun actor la festivalul de la Cannes 2013-Bruce Dern

Vineri 27 februarie
20:00 Film Cult / Special Oscar
Ticăloși fără glorie / Inglourious Basterds (SUA,2009)
Regia: Quentin Tarantino
Cu: Brad Pitt, Mélanie Laurent, Christoph Waltz
Război, acțiune
Durata: 152 min.
8 nominalizări și un premiu Oscar
Premiul pentru cel mai bun actor la festivalul de la Cannes 2009- Christoph Waltz
In memoriam Rod Taylor

Sâmbătă 28 februarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Cartea Junglei /The Jungle Book (SUA, 1967)
Regia: Wolfgang Reitherman
Animaţie
Durata: 78 min.
Dublat în limba română

17:00 Golden Classics / Special Oscar
Ce verde era valea mea / How Green Was My Valley (SUA, 1941)
Regia: John Ford
Cu: Walter Pidgeon, Maureen O'Hara, Anna Lee
Dramă, ecranizare
Durata: 118 min.
5 premii Oscar

19.30: Mari regizori / Special Oscar
Master and Commander: La capătul Pământului / Master and Commander: The Far Side of The World (SUA, 2003)
Cu: Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, Billy Boyd
Aventură
Durata: 138 min.
In memoriam Samuel Goldwyn jr.
9 nominalizări și 2 premii Oscar

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Special Oscar la Cinemateca Patria !

Saptamina 16 - 22 februarie 2015 la Cinemateca Patria, Brasov-Special Oscar !

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Luni 16 februarie
20:00 Seara filmului european / Special Oscar
Ida (Polonia, 2013)
Regia: Pawel Pawlikowski
Cu: Agata Trzebuchowska, Agata Kulesza, Dawid Ogrodnik
Dramă
Durata: 82 min.
Nominalizat la premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film strain și la premiul Oscar pentru cea mai bună imagine
Preț bilet 10 RON

Marți 17 februarie
20:00 Seara filmului asiatic /Special Oscar
Mongol
Regia: Sergei Bodrov
Cu: Tadanobu Asano, Amadu Mamadakov
Epic, istoric
Durata: 126 min.
Nominalizat la premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun film străin (Kazahstan)

Miercuri 18 februarie
20:00 Seara Doc And Roll / Special Oscar
Searching For Sugar Man (Suedia, 2012)
Regia: Malik Bendjelloul
Cu: Rodriguez, Stephen 'Sugar' Segerman
Documentar, biografic
Durata: 86 min
Premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun documentar –2013

Joi 19 februarie
20:00 Comedy Classics / Special Oscar
Grand Hotel Budapest (SUA, 2014)
Regia: Wes Anderson
Cu: Ralph Fiennes, F. Murray Abraham, Adrien Brody
Comedie
Durata: 100 min.
Marele Premiu al Juriului la Festivalul de la Berlin
4 nominalizări la Globul de Aur
9 nominalizări la premiul Oscar

Vineri 20 februarie
20:00 Film Cult / Special Oscar
Nu există ţară pentru bătrâni SUA, 2007)
Regia: Ethan și Joel Coen
Cu: Josh Brolin, Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem
Thriller dramatic
Durata: 116 min
8 nominalizări și 4 premii Oscar inclusiv cel mai bun film, regie și scenariu adaptat
2 premii Globul de Aur
Cronica mea la film aici !

Sâmbătă 21 februarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Shrek (2001)
Regia: Andrew Adamson
Animaţie.
Dublat în limba română
Durata: 92 min.

17:00 Mari actori / Special Oscar
Dallas Buyers Club (SUA, 2013)
Regia: Jean-Marc Vallée
Cu: Matthew McConaughey, Jennifer Garner, Jared Leto
Dramă, biografic
Durata: 117 min.
3 premii Oscar 2014 –pentru cel mai bun actor în rol principal și secundar, machiaj
2 premii Globul de Aur

19.30: Mari regizori / Special Oscar
Blue Jasmine (SUA, 2013)
Regia: Woody Allen
Cu: Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Peter Sarsgaard
Dramă, comedie
Durata: 94 min.
Premiul Oscar pentru cea mai buna actriță: Cate Blanchett

Duminică 22 ianuarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Doamna şi vagabondul/ Lady and the Tramp (SUA, 1955)
Regia: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Animație
Durata: 76 min.

17:00 Golden Classics / Special Oscar
Bulevardul amurgului / Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Regia: Billy Wilder
Cu: William Holden, Gloria Swanson
Dramă, film noir. Durata: 110 min.
3 premii Oscar !

19:00 Seara de Oscar / Special Oscar
12 ani de sclavie / 12 Years a Slave (2013)
Regia: Steve McQueen
Cu: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Brad Pitt
Dramă, istoric
Durata: 135 min.
9 nominalizări și 3 premii Oscar 2014 inclusiv pentru cel mai bun film!
7 nominalizări și Globul de Aur pentru cel mai bun film (dramă)
Cronica mea la film aici !

Program Cinemateca Patria 26 ianuarie -1 februarie 2015

Program Cinemateca Patria, Brasov- 26 ianuarie -1 februarie 2015
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Weekend Gene Hackman LMA 30 ianuarie (85 de ani)
ARTICOL F BUN DESPRE EL AICI
Luni 26 ianuarie
19:00 Seara filmului european
Autobiografia lui Nicolae Ceaușescu (România, 2010)
Regia: Andrei Ujică
Cu: Nicolae Ceaușescu, Elena Ceaușescu, Richard Nixon, etc
Documentar, biografic
Durata: 180 min.
Selecția oficială –Festivalul de la Cannes (hors concours)
Proiecție specială de ziua lui Nicolae Ceaușescu
Intrarea gratuită
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Marți 27 ianuarie
20:00 Seara filmului asiatic
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance / Boksuneun naui geot (Coreea de sud, 2002)
Regia: Park Chan-wook
Cu: Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin
Thriller, dramă
Durata: 126 min.
Cel mai bun film asiatic -Fantasia Festival 2003
Interzis minorilor !

Miercuri 28 ianuarie
20:00 Seara Doc And Roll
The Rolling Stones: Some Girls: Live in Texas '78 (SUA, 2011)
Cu: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood
Concert, muzical
Durata: 82 min.
In memoriam Bobby Keys

Joi 29 ianuarie
20:00 Comedy Classics
Familia Tennenbaum / The Royal Tennenbaums ( SUA, 2001)
Regia: Wes Anderson
Cu: Gene Hackman, Ben Stiller, Bill Murray
Comedie dramatică
Durata: 110 min.
Premiul Globul de Aur pentru cel mai bun actor: Gene Hackman
Nominalizat la Oscar pentru cel mai bun scenariu
LMA Gene Hackman 85 de ani (30 ianuarie)

Vineri 30 ianuarie
20:00 Film Cult
Conversația / The Conversation (SUA,1974)
Regia: Francis Ford Coppola
Cu: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Thriller, dramă
Durata: 113 min.
Palme d'Or la festivalul de la Cannes
3 nominalizări la premiul Oscar
LMA Gene Hackman 85 de ani

Sâmbătă 31 ianuarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Peter Pan (SUA, 1953)
Regia: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson
Animaţie.
Dublat în limba română
Durata: 77 min.

17:00 Golden Classics
Prime Cut (SUA,1972)
Regia: Michael Ritchie
Cu: Lee Marvin, Gene Hackman, Sissy Spacek
Thriller, dramă
Durata: 88 min.
LMA Gene Hackman 85 de ani

19.00: Mari regizori
Valul ucigaș / Crimson Tide (SUA,1995)
Regia: Tony Scott
Cu: Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, James Gandolfini
Thriller, război
Durata: 116 min.
Aniversarea de 20 de ani !
Premiul Grammy pentru cea mai bună muzică de film: Hans Zimmer
3 nominalizări la premiul Oscar
LMA Gene Hackman 85 de ani

Duminică 1 februarie
11:00 Matineu copii
Toy Story / Povestea Jucariilor (SUA, 1995)
Regia: John Lasseter
Animaţie.
Dublat în limba română
Durata: 81 min.

17:00 Golden Classics
Skiorul / Downhill Racer (SUA, 1969)
Regia: Michael Ritchie
Cu: Robert Redford, Gene Hackman, Camilla Sparv
Sport, drama
Durata: 101 min.
LMA Gene Hackman (85)

19:00 Seara de Oscar
Filiera franceză / The French Connection (1971)
Regia: William Friedkin
Cu: Gene Hackman, Roy Scheider, Fernando Rey
Politist, dramă
Durata: 102 min.
5 premii Oscar si premiul Oscar pentru cel mai bun actor (Hackman)
LMA Gene Hackman (85)