Andrei Gorzo is an associate professor of film studies at the National University of Theatre and Film “I. L. Caragiale” in Bucharest; he currently heads the Film Studies and Screenwriting Department of the UNATC. A cinephile critic as well as a scholar, he is the author of four books in Romanian, including the first study of the New Romanian Cinema (published in 2012). Outside Romania, his work has appeared in publications including Film Criticism and Cahiers du cinéma. His research interests include the aesthetics of the long take, the thought of André Bazin, Cold War cinema, and the life and writings of Graham Greene. He is currently working on a book in English (co-authored with Veronica Lazăr) on contemporary Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude. 
Drama · Religion & Spirituality · Writers & Critics
Graham Greene could be a very political writer (nowhere more than in The Quiet American, which was his next major work after The End of the Affair), but Christianity has[…]
Activist & Political · Biopic · Documentaries · Drama · Eastern European · Middle East
Like Assayas’s Carlos, Ujică’s Autobiography mostly remains an investigation of a public figure in its public functions. And both films subtly decenter their Big Man of History protagonists. Both document[…]
Literature and Film · Thrillers & Action · Writers & Critics
A master of the spy novel whose work inspired some of the most memorable films of the genre, John le Carré died on December 12, 2020. We honor him with[…]
Directors · Theory · Writers & Critics
One of Assayas’s most ferocious articles he ever wrote (and also one of the most theoretical) attacks le cinéma publicitaire – a film aesthetic (associated in France with Jean-Jacques Beineix[…]
Drama · Theory · Writers & Critics
Bazin would always harbor reservations about The Third Man, but, due to that film, Greene’s presence would continue to loom large in discussions of Orson Welles, who was, of course,[…]
