The Pro Cultura Publishing House invites you on Friday, November 23, 2018 (from 18:00), at the Eforie Cinematheque – Jean Georgescu Hall to the
second event dedicated to the launch of the collective volume “Sala de cinema. Cinebucurești.100 de ani de modernitate”, written by Mihaela Pelteacu and
Laurențiu Damian.
The participants at this new debate about the film and the cinema hall are: conf. univ. dr. Marina Roman, film critic, conf. univ. dr. Vlad Leu, cinematographer, conf. univ. dr. architect Mihaela Pelteacu and asist. drd. architect Daniela-Maria Puia. The debate will be moderated by the film critic Mihai Fulger, deputy artistic director of the National Film Archives.
The evening will begin with the energy brought by the Bucharest Swing Society members, led by Ioana Lupescu and it will end with the screening of the film
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993, directed by Woody Allen), scheduled at 19.00.
As a result of the cultural project “CineBucurești. 100 de ani de modernitate”, initiated by the Pro Cultura Association, the volume “Sala de cinema” published in a bilingual version (Romanian – English), continues the endeavour for supporting the re-discovery and the valorization of the cinema halls, both for their architectural and urban qualities and for the only way of preserving the film as a work of art.
The approach of the authors starts from a personal perception that acknowledges the founding relationship between cinema hall and the modern city and supports, adding to other efforts, the recuperation and the reactivation of the historic cinema halls in the city center. By analyzing the screening spaces, the book identifies a particular urban topography that the cinema hall - in relationship with the habitation – generated in the city, an interesting solidarity, looked upon from a architectural-urban perspective and from a cinematographic one.
The volume is an editorial project made with the support of the Romanian Film Center and of the Romanian Film Union.
