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English, please / Stuff

Culture Questionnaire: Jacqui Banaszynski

Jacqui Banaszynski

Journalist Jacqui Banaszynski on Hillary Clinton, fishing in the mountains, and how to look at others.

English, please / Stuff

Culture Questionnaire: Jon Mooallem

Jon Mooallem

Journalist Jon Mooallem feels strongly about: Elton John, a marijuana cream, and a book on hijacking.

English, please / Literature

Culture Questionnaire: Tara Skurtu

Tara Skurtu

Poet and translator Tara Skurtu on what she's reading these days, the songs she likes, and what she sees out her window.

English, please / Arte vizuale

“In the Beginning There Wasn’t the Word. But the Image.”

Adi Bulboacă, Andra Matzal

Four Russian artists are turning the world on its head inside a dark Bucharest room

English, please / Arte vizuale

Eastern European art is now becoming very attractive for Westerners

Andra Matzal

I went to the largest art fair is Central and Eastern Europe, to see what is keeping the contemporary scene alive.

English, please / Film

San Sebastian Film Festival (#4): Evolution Will Be Televised

Ioana Pelehatăi

Day#4: Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly on Roth’s “American Pastoral”, Villeneuve’s “Arrival”, and “The Oddyssey” about Cousteau.

English, please / Film

San Sebastian Film Festival (#3): The Act of Fiction

Ioana Pelehatăi

Day #3 in San Sebastian: on the fringes of reality and fiction. Stone says Obama’s USA is as bad as Nazi Germany. Historic docs and fiction. Hong-san soo. “American Pastoral”.

English, please / Film

San Sebastian Film Festival (#2): The Body Politic

Ioana Pelehatăi

Day 2 of my San Sebastian IFF experience: bodies constructed and politics. Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Sigourney Weaver, Oliver Stone, and Ken Loach.

English, please / Cinema

Vlad Ivanov: “Romanian Movies Don’t Offer Solutions”

George Popescu, Ionuț Dulămiță

I wanted to learn more about one of the greatest stage and screen actors in post-communist Romania.

English, please / Film

San Sebastian Film Festival (#1): Dash for Youth

Ioana Pelehatăi

Day 1 for Scena9 at the San Sebastian Film Festival: running on borrowed time, for films about youth.

English, please / Tot felul

A Summer Reading Children’s Books

Irina Dobriță

This is what it was like to spend two months reading to Romania’s poorest children.

English, please / Photography

Horia Manolache’s American Dream

Ioana Pelehatăi

What motivated Romanian photographer Horia Manolache to capture the homeless people of San Francisco? What does it mean to be successful?

English, please / Brâncuși

The Origins of the Cult of Brâncuși. An Interview with Alexandra Croitoru

Luiza Vasiliu

Who is Brancusi? Why is he among us? When did his reception go from being strictly aesthetic to the emergence of a genuine cult? What did communists believe about Brancusi? What do you think?

English, please / Exotic

How to Get Close to People. From the Teachings of 8 Photographers

Larisa Baltă

3 questions about the world of photo reportage and the ethical approach to photography, from 8 pros.

English, please / Film

I Know What You Did Last Night

Luiza Vasiliu

I met in London with the team of "The Night Of", the new HBO series.

English, please / Holocaust

In Iași, an Art Exhibition Awakens the City’s Sleeping Giant

Luiza Vasiliu

I attended the first collective contemporary art exhibition about the Holocaust in Romania.

English, please / Cinema

A Focus on “Scarred Hearts”

Andra Matzal

We go behind the scenes of the new movie directed by Radu Jude trough Silviu Gheţie photos.

English, please / Actors

That’s Not How We Pass This Class, Alexandru!

Adi Bulboacă, Ionuț Dulămiță

Do you know who Alexandru Potocean is? He’s one of the most respected young Romanian actors. We sat down for beers and I wrote his story.

English, please / Romania

How Foreigners See Us: 7 Music Videos Shot in Romania

Filip Standavid

The eye of the foreigner, used to seeing freshness where all you see is oozing and destitution, has already crept into several corners of Romania.

English, please / Bucharest

Bucharest, a Whimpering Bully

Radu Ciorniciuc, Vlad Odobescu

We measured how time flows in fast-forward in a video essay about the city we love to hate.

English, please / Musician

If I Can Take Your Hearts on a Ride, I Am a Happy Artist

Andra Matzal

What life looks like for one of the world's ten best young pianists.

English, please / Brexit

Romania: a great reason for Brits to stay in the EU

Michael Bird

What will Brexit mean? That the successful political union between the unlikely brothers of Romania and the UK will suddenly vanish.

English, please / Technology

In Search of Lost Time on Facebook

Andy Sinboy, Luiza Vasiliu

I procrastinate because I feel like I can’t start anything good when I am not the world’s happiest woman. Surely, I will be one tomorrow. Tomorrow, everyone will be happy, there will be no wars, and the articles will write themselves.

English, please / Visual arts

Tania Mouraud: ‘You cannot quit art’

Andra Matzal, George Popescu

We talked wit Tania Mouraud, in wich career can fit art for seven lives