18 September 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Simandan
"Starting to write is the hardest of the whole process" - Interview with Maclean J. Storer

"...  fiction is very different; you have to develop the confidence to relax and free up your imagination. And when writing fiction, you have no facts to fall back on, so you have to fill that void from your own imagination, which is scary sometimes."

5 September 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Simandan
"Forward O Peasant!": Vietnam's most humorous novel

Forward O Peasant! is a highly witty, humorous, and politically incorrect story that follows the misfortunes and misadventures of Phillip Jonathan Snow, a young Englishman employed by the Globality Institute(...)

23 August 2009, by Adina Tarry
Lars von Trier’s Antichrist and Sasha Baron-Cohen’s Bruno

Antichrist and Bruno are not for the fainthearted (albeit in very different ways) and may offend some viewers. But if you decide to see any or both, and stay with it, the likelihood is that you will be in some way moved or challenged. In the end, films are meant to do this just as much as to please and entertain.

4 August 2009, by Voicu Mihnea Simandan
“The Collector” by John Fowles

John Fowles is a well-known British author (1926 - 2005) who has dedicated his life to the world of literature. His first novel, “The Collector”, published in 1963, has been reprinted several times...

16 July 2009, by Adina Tarry
Cannes 2009 and the Romanian New Wave

What is an actor without a director? And what is a director without a screenplay? And what are directors and actors without a producer? Well, not much. This is why this industry is a highly collaborative one, where everyone works with others, in  atight and closely enmeshed value chain.

26 May 2009, by Diana Varbanescu
The Merry Cemetery, Sapanta - Romania

It is the vivid blue that makes this cemetery look so lively. Some say it’s the radiant blue of heaven where souls of the deceased depart after death, while others even talk about the vivid blue known today as “Sapanta blue” as reflecting images of devotion, truth and wisdom. Well, when the craftsman himself was asked about what inspired it, he replied plainly: “the sky”.