Memories, Dreams & Revolutions
Further reflections on events in Iran and revolutions in general, with reference to Eastern Europe in 1989, Romanian films, and my pal Marek, who grew up on the other side of a once supposedly...
View ArticlePolice, Adjective (Porumboiu, 2009) CIFF – 2009
We waited for our theater to open, a Romanian lady and I, chatting. She hadn't been home for forty years, she admitted -- not even since the end of Communism. Ceausescu (she spat the name like poison)...
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I. HOW COULD WE KNOW WHEN I WAS YOUNG ALL THE CHANGES THAT WERE TO COME? The other night we sat in the playground, watching the kids play. It was a gorgeous late Spring evening, warm enough for the...
View ArticlePolice, Adjective (Porumboiu, 2009) CIFF – 2009
We waited for our theater to open, a Romanian lady and I, chatting. She hadn’t been home for forty years, she admitted — not even since the end of Communism. Ceausescu (she spat the name like poison)...
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