Romanian

Radu Jude, Romanian cinema’s foremost exponent of punky, subversive audience-baiting provocation, returns with the gloriously titled Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. And as may be expected from the director whose last movie was the eye-bogglingly explicit 2021 Berlin Golden Bear-winning satire Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn, this picture is more or less equal parts an indulgent, endurance-testing slog and a brilliantly audacious, fiercely political poke in the eye to conventional cinema. I loved every…

Romanian film-maker Radu Jude was a Golden Bear winner at Berlin last year for his wackily entitled Covid-era movie Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn. Now he is back with another garrulous essay-movie-slash-black-comedy collage, speckled with literary quotations, jokes, cinephile sideswipes and references to Romania’s most notorious foreign resident: our very own Andrew Tate. The title is a maxim from the Polish poet and aphorist Stanisław Jerzy Lec.It’s another skittery, jittery movie, an experimental adventure in which…

Jerry Roscoe was enjoying a cruise with his wife on the Danube River in Romania last Sunday when the dispute mediator saw an email asking for his help on a sensitive matter: the high-stakes defamation suit against Fox News. Voting machine company Dominion Voting Systems had sued Fox, accusing the company of airing false claims that its technology helped rig the 2020 presidential election in favor of Joe Biden. Fox argued that it was covering newsworthy election-fraud claims. It was a bruising legal…

Breadcrumb Trail Links Life Eating & Drinking Culture Books In her follow-up to Carpathia, author Irina Georgescu shares Romanian baking recipes, tracing their roots throughout Eastern Europe and beyond Get the latest from Laura Brehaut straight to your inbox Sign Up For author Irina Georgescu, Christmas isn't Christmas without cozonac (Romanian festive bread with walnuts and raisins). Photo by Matt Russell Reviews and recommendations are unbiased and products are…

According to a report by Ancient Replays on YouTube, Romanian retailer Intend, has a new CPU listing featuring the model name Ryzen 5 3600 AF - indicating its a Ryzen 5 3600 with upgraded Zen 3 cores. Assuming this naming scheme isn't a typo, it marks the return of the "AF" nomenclature for AMD, which is great news for budget PC gamers. The listing shows the Ryzen 5 3600AF as valued at 639.77 Romanian Lei, or roughly $126 USD as of this writing.The AF nomenclature originally started with the Ryzen 5 1600 AF, which…

Archaeologists in Romania have discovered an extraordinary cache of ancient gold rings that a 6,500-year-old woman wore in her hair.The trove in a Copper Age grave includes 169 gold rings, 800 bone beads, and an ornate spiraled copper bracelet discovered by a team from the Ţării Crişurilor museum in Oradea, Romania.The jewelry was laid to rest alongside a burial of an "extremely rich" woman, museum director Gabriel Moisa said, Romanian outlet Agerpres reports.Archaeologists identified the remains as belonging to a woman…

Ștefania Mărăcineanu, a Romanian physicist, has been honoured on her 140th birthday with a Google doodle. Ștefania was born in 1882 in Bucharest, Romania, and went on to become one of the pioneers in the discovery and research of radioactivity. Mărăcineanu's PhD thesis was on polonium, an element that physicist Marie Curie discovered. During her career, she engaged in several interesting researches including studying artificial rain, and also the link between earthquakes and rainfall. She never received global…

Cristian Mungiu has returned to the Cannes competition with this dour, gloomy psychodrama of central European xenophobia: a Romanian-Brexity hostility which has taken up residence in the brains of people in a multi-ethnic region of Transylvania. They are people who can’t decide which racial identity among their neighbours they dislike the most, or how much to dislike the EU from which so much financial help still comes, but whose richer countries are very racist indeed towards them. For all that it is a little contrived…