Tags archives: Dragoș Bucur
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3 years ago
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Dekanalog Films
Two Lottery Tickets, a 2016 Romanian comedy directed by Paul Negoescu, is a diverting, enjoyable buddy caper about a trio of working-class guys who win the national lottery, lose the ticket when one them is mugged, and endure a string of adventures in an effort to collect their winnings. It’s a mostly lighthearted movie that sails along on the banter among the three friends, each of whom has an amusingly idiosyncratic personality.
Dinel (Dorian Boguță) is a fretful, sad-eyed mechanic whose wife is working in Italy for a shadowy boss. As we learn from a series of phone calls, she wants to come home, but her boss is demanding money to terminate her contract. Dinel's own life is no picnic either, as we see him browbeaten at the garage by an irate customer who doesn’t like his car's paint job. Sile (Dragoș Bucur) is a burly, big-talking gambler who is willing to bet on any sport, including the Tour de France. The trio is rounded out by Pompiliu (Alexandru Papadopol), a neatly groomed and tightly wound government functionary who is obsessed with conspiracy theories. Together they drink in a local bar and decide to purchase a lottery ticket with an eye on the big jackpot.
Dekanalog Films
Their amazing luck in actually winning is dampened by the fact that Dinel’s fannypack containing the ticket was stolen by two thugs in his own building. After knocking on several doors and encountering various characters and situations, including a clairvoyant and a cou[...]
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7 years ago
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Founded in 1962, Film Comment has long been the critical voice of art-house and independent cinema, while also offering thoughtful coverage of more mainstream movies. The Film Society of Lincoln Center, which has published the magazine since the 1970s, annually presents the Film Comment Selects festival, which runs this year from Friday, Feb. 17, through Thursday, Feb. 23. Now in its 17th year, the festival screens movies that are not generally shown elsewhere, mixing the new and noteworthy with older, sometimes forgotten films that deserve another look.
The scope of the festival is demonstrated by its opening night films: a premiere of Stéphane Brizé’s A Woman’s Life, an intricate adaptation of the Guy de Maupassant novel; and an Ultra-widescreen IMAX presentation of Terrence Malick’s trippy Voyage of Time, a visual and aural treat. The festival also features a four-film tribute to recently deceased cinematographer Raoul Coutard and revivals including 1972's The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds and rarely seen 1962 short On the Harmfulness of Tobacco, both directed by Paul Newman.
Here’s a look at a couple of other films to be screened:
Bitter Money, Wang Bing’s rambling, fly-on-the-wall documentary about Chinese migrant workers, is sometimes a tough slog. His loose, observational style doesn’t always serve the stories of his subjects—various individuals who have traveled to Huzhou to work in the city’s garment factories—nor does it consistently[...]
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