Movie and Music

Most likely, those who had already seen the trailer for Scorsese’s latest film, Shutter Island, couldn’t help feeling there was something terribly wrong with it. Since his Cape Fear, a major box office hit, nothing looked that conventional in Scorsese’s filmography. It was clearly a mystery film, involving two federal agents (Leonardo Di Caprio and Mark Ruffalo) on a gloomy island, who were supposed to investigate the disappearance of a patient – undoubtedly, cheap film material.

For those who already know Terry Gilliam’s films, it wouldn’t come as a surprise that his latest, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, is another filmed fairy tale. After all, it seems that Gilliam hardly does anything else that filming fairy tales.

Capitalism: A Love Story is, in a way, too ambitious for its own good. Its title feels like the one we’ve always wanted from Moore. Anyone seeing at least one of Moore’s documentaries knows that his films are about certain aspects of the American society and are essentially case studies: Bowling for Columbine was depicting violence and fear conducting to violence in America, while Sicko was polemically discussing the American health care system.

We received, with great pleasure, the news of the “spectral” music concert organized, in premier, at the Romanian Academy in Rome, in collaboration with the Romanian Cultural Institute, on the 31st of January 2010, and dedicated, above all, to the memory of the unforgettable Romanian composer Horaţiu Rădulescu, considered to be “…

Up in the Air is an American movie about a lonely, happy man. Hence the question: how many American movies are about lonely, happy people. Not more than a few, probably. Of course, the typical hero is always single, at least at the very beginning of the movie.