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Irina Muresanu gave an emotionally compelling performance, even if her view of the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto didn’t always jibe with conductor Jonathan McPhee’s.
The word “concerto” comes from the Italian for “to bring into agreement,” and it’s not always as easy as soloists and symphony orchestras make it seem.
By JEFFREY GANTZ | November 14, 2008

Right to choose

Interview: Cristian Mungiu takes his time with 4 Months
“For all of us to have our own opinion, this is what I want. It’s not like telling people what to do.”
By PETER KEOUGH | January 30, 2008

Silver linings on a dark screen

Film: 2007 in review
The best films of 2007 hold their own when it comes to despair, evil, and treachery.
By PETER KEOUGH | December 18, 2007

Dark new wave

Contemporary Romanian cinema at the HFA
Every now and then, it happens: a new wave from where?
By MICHAEL ATKINSON | October 01, 2007

Taking tolerance overseas

Stemming hate violence
Hate violence between Catholics and Protestants plagued Northern Ireland for decades.
By DEIRDRE FULTON | August 15, 2007

Start the revolution without me

History lessons in 12:08 East of Bucharest
To judge from recent movies from that country, everything in Romania is going to pot. Except Romanian movies.
By PETER KEOUGH | July 24, 2007

Holy relics

Aharon Appelfeld revisits familiar terrain
Aharon Appelfeld’s parabolical novel All Whom I Have Loved tells of a boy’s loss of home and family.
By DANA KLETTER | February 20, 2007

Blood and Chocolate

You'll howl
Shape shifters or werewolves have always required crafty cinematic sleight of hand.
By TOM MEEK | January 31, 2007

Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj

Flops without Ryan Reynolds
In this lame Animal House knockoff, one of Van Wilder’s disciples makes waves at a stuffy English university by leading a rag-tag band of misfits against a fratful of uptight bluebloods. Watch the trailer for Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (QuickTime)
By CHRIS WANGLER | December 06, 2006

The future of an illusion

Reflections on 40 years spent in the dark
When I first realized that movies would, for better or worse, dominate my imagination forever, I really gave no thought to the forces at work creating these transfiguring images on a screen.
By PETER KEOUGH | November 15, 2006

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu(1)

Approaches the mythic
Those dismayed by the state of American medicine might take heart from Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s depressing, fascinating, two-and-a-half-hour death watch. Watch the trailer for The Death of Mr.Lzarescu (QuickTime)
By PETER KEOUGH | July 31, 2006

The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Those dismayed by the state of American medicine might take heart from Romanian director Cristi Puiu’s depressing, fascinating, two-and-a-half-hour death watch.
By PETER KEOUGH | January 18, 2006

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