Dora Leu
Graduated with a BA in film directing and a MA in film studies from UNATC; she's also studied history of art. Also collaborates with the Acoperisul de Sticla film magazine and is a former coordinator of FILM MENU. She's dedicated herself to '60-'70s Japanese cinema and Irish post-punk music bands. Still keeps a picture of Leslie Cheung in her wallet.

Gladiator II – Why Can’t We Leave the Dead to Rest

From Dogtooth to Poor Things – When Did Yorgos Lanthimos Lose His Dogtooth

Blur – Old age is rubbish, but just a bit

KVIFF: Panopticon – St. Peter and the Incel

KVIFF: C’est pas moi – Carax, after Godard, and Godard after Carax

KVIFF – Kafka & Mr. Kneff: The new Soderbergh is the old Soderbergh

Ryusuke Hamaguchi: Introductory Words for a Filmmaker of Words

Nikita Lavretski: “I don’t discriminate between images. They’re all good”

La Chimera – So wept Orpheus upon leaving the Underworld

Kiyoshi Kurosawa: “I’m always jealous of how free and luxurious sound is compared to the image. Images are weak”

Hors du temps – Assayas Island or Summer (E)state of Cinema | Berlinale 2024

Andrei Cohn on ‘Holy Week’: “What interested me was this vicious cycle of hatred that we don’t know how to break”

Cinema police, arrest this man, he talks in video: Jonathan Glazer

Celine Song: “It’s not the kind of marriage that is good because everything is fine, it’s a great marriage because it’s real”

Merry Christmas & Good-bye, Mr. Lawrence

The Boy and the Heron – The Magician’s Nephew

Bas Devos: “The more a filmmaker looks with generosity to the world, the more I will likely appreciate their work”

Past Lives – You’ll (not) be over it by the time you’re married | Review

KVIFF 2023 – From East to West (and Back) to East / A Festival Struggling Between East and West

„Johnnie To is downstairs, having a cigar”. The story of an interview I never expected to happen

Decision to Leave: Hitchcock’s dead, long live Hitchcock

Phantoms of a full heart and of coming emptiness

KVIFF 2022 – Back to OZ, and so on, and so forth

Crystal Globe Winner at Karlovy Vary – Summer with Hope

Berlinale 2022 – Constraints, freedoms, vulnerabilities

Belle – Online Humanism

Fashion film transparency and status. Interview with Mădălina Cozmeanu and Ioana Diaconu

Chekhov’s Car

Cruella: The de Vil wears Liberty