12:08 East of Bucharest (2006) / Region 2 PAL Romanian only VERSION / Starring: Mircea Andreescu, Teodor Corban Director: Corneliu Porumboiu
Hullabaloo (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Saturday Night At The Movies CSI: Vaslui By Dennis Hartley Somebody’s watching me: Police, Adjective “What do you think; would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds'” -Fyodor Dostoevsky I think most people would agree that Bullitt and The French Connection qualify as two of the most seminal and recognizable examples of the “cop thriller”. Although...
Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 01/29/2010
A police procedural that's less about criminal matters than it is about dialectics and existential quandaries, Corneliu Porumboiu's Police, Adjective is an anti-thriller in which little happens - there is plenty of talk, but even more silence. This cunning and provocative Romanian film requires patience, but its rewards are many: It's hard to imagine how a scene in which a police captain barks an order...
Fin de Cinema (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
The Academy announced the nine finalists in the Foreign Language Oscar category yesterday, which will be narrowed down to five once the Oscar nominations are announced on 2 February; 65 films were submitted for the category, which I listed a couple of months ago . Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon [ Das weiße Band ], from Germany, and Jacques Audiard's A Prophet [ Un prophète ], from France,...
Stale Popcorn (Free subscription) | 01/21/2010
Just earlier today I blogged about the Academy's nine finalists for the Best Foreign Language Film category, whittled down by a devoted bunch of Academy members who watched all 65 submitted films. However, while titles such as The White Ribbon and Un Prophete got people excited, as is the case every year, that small shortlist excluded several submitted titles that had prominence with film followers....
Movie Moxie (Free subscription) | 01/15/2010
Hello Film Fans and Fanatics! Welcome to Film Fan Fridays for Friday January 15, 2010! Now this week we are back to what feels like a regular number of releases. It might even be too many, I can't fit in seeing all the films I want to see out of the nine, count 'em nine, selections. What will make your list? In limited release this week we have 5 releases, first on my list is Crazy Heart because I...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 01/12/2010
As is the custom at the end of every year, we take a final look back at the year of movies in 2009. Of course, many of the best movies "made" in 2009 actually premiered at various places in 2008, which puts the time they were "made" somewhere around 2007. Semantics are always a part of these lists for what qualifies and what doesn't. Do festival screenings count? Does it need a...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/10/2010
"Police, Adjective" was shot in the drab provincial Romanian city of Vaslui. What you see won't make you rush to visit. Corneliu Porumboiu's film follows an undercover cop who battles with his conscience as he shadows a teenager whom he's ordered to arrest...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
1. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008) 2. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008) 3. Police, Adjective ( Corneliu Porumboiu) 4. The Limits of Control (Jim Jarmusch) 5. Fish Story (Yoshihiro Nakamura) 6. (tie) Antichrist (Lars von Trier) & Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) 7. Eccentricities of a Blond Hair Girl (Manoel de Oliveira) 8. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) 9. White Material (Claire Denis)...
Tativille (Free subscription) | 01/03/2010
1. Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu) 2. Summer Hours (Olivier Assayas, 2008) 3. Liverpool (Lisandro Alonso, 2008) 4. Around a Small Mountain (Jacques Rivette) 5. 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, 2008) / White Material (Claire Denis) 6. Two Lovers (James Gray, 2008) 7. Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson) 8. Still Walking (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2008) 9. A Week Alone (Celina Murga, 2007) 10. The Limits of...
eugonline (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
All this month I was listing, on this blog, movie titles from the past decade grouped alphabetically, showcasing a new letter every day. And then I dropped the ball. The roster is culled from a list that was circulated recently by Film Comment. I missed a lot of days, so I am finishing it off today. Tomorrow, we’ll post our best of the decade lists on indieWIRE. Hope you’ll check ‘em...
Donal Foreman (Free subscription) | 12/31/2009
FIVE NEW FILMS • Two Lovers (James Gray) • 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis) • Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman) • Police, Adjective (Corneliu Porumboiu) • Facs of Life (Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson) FIVE OLD FILMS • Milestones (Robert Kramer and John Douglas, 1975) at Anthology Film Archives • Méditerranée (Jean-Daniel Pollet, 1963) at the Different...
Dr. Parnassus Support Site (Free subscription) | 12/29/2009
Source: Indiewire Some of the good news – according to estimates provided by Rentrak – was the debut of Terry Gilliam’s “The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus.” The Sony Pictures Classics release (on behalf of Sony Pictures Worldwide Acquisitions Group), which was the last role for late actor Heath Ledger – grossed $129,980 from 4 screens, averaging $32,495. That’s...
Vulture (Free subscription) | 12/28/2009
One of the breakout titles from this year’s Cannes Film Festival (where it won two big awards), and a cause célèbre at the New York Film Festival, as well, Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective challenges your own reaction to it as it unspools. Starting off as a very dry, matter-of-fact police procedural, with lengthy, quiet, static scenes depicting its...
Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 12/24/2009
Corneliu Porumboiu’s Police, Adjective brilliantly and clinically inspects language, bureaucratic runarounds, and the conscience of one noble, in-limbo cop. Porumboiu sets this downtempo policier in his hometown of Vasliu, where plainclothes Cristi trails a student who supposedly slings hash. During the dry, real-time takes, Cristi follows his suspects, while hoping his bullheaded superior will...
Out 1 (Free subscription) | 12/23/2009
by James Hansen Police, Adjective - one of the major highlights at this year's New York Film Festival - opens in New York at IFC Center today. I wrote about the film in my round-ups of the festival, but I was also lucky enough to sit down with director Corneliu Porumboiu during the festival to discuss his approach in crafting this challenging film. The following is an edited conversation I had with...
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