Tudor Caranfil (14 September 1931 – 23 March 2019) was a Romanian film critic. He was the father of film director
Nae Caranfil
Nae Caranfil (; also Nicolae Caranfil) (born 7 September 1960) is a Romanian film director and screenwriter.
Career
Born in Bucharest, Nae Caranfil is the son of Romanian film historian and critic Tudor Caranfil. He graduated in 1984 from the Car ...
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Biography
He attended V. Alecsandri College in Galati and last year, as well as a bachelor's degree at the Mihai Viteazu High School in Bucharest. He graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in 1957 to later publish journalism at Bucharest Information. Beginning in the 1960s, he devoted himself to film criticism. From 1962, he created "The friends of the friends of the night", the first form of the Romanian cinematheque.
He had been invited to the
Cannes Film Festival
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, the Berlin Film Festival and was a member of the FIPRESCI jury. He participated in many other international film festivals in Karlovy Vary, Los Angeles, Locarno, Cottbus, Rotterdam, San Francisco, and major Romanian film festivals.
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în Catalogul de Autori de la Editura Cartea Românească
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He won the film critic's award from the Romanian Film Association (ACIN) in 1988 for the volume "In Search of the Lost Film" (tied with Olteea Vasilescu).
[Uniunea Cineaștilor din România (ed.), ''Premiile cineaștilor 1970–2000'', Editura și Tipografia Intact, București, 2001, p. 82.]
Published volumes
* ''Din luptele studentimii democrate'', București, Editura Tineretului, (1956)
* ''7 capodopere ale filmului mut'', (1966)
* ''F. W. Murnau'', (1968)
* ''Contribuții la istoria cinematografiei în România'' – volum sub redacția lui
Ion Cantacuzino, (1971)
* ''Romanul unui film: "Cetățeanul Kane"'', (1978, 2008)
* ''Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 1 (De la "Stropitorul stropit" la "Crucișătorul Potiomkin")'', (1982)
* ''Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 2 (Apogeul filmului tăcut''), (1984)
* ''În căutarea filmului pierdut sau trei "romane" cinematografice'', (1988)
* ''Vîrstele peliculei, vol. 3 (O artă la răscruce)'', (1990)
* ''Vârstele peliculei, vol. 4 (Cinematograful sonor își caută specificul)'', (1998)
* ''Dicționar de filme românești'', (2002)
* ''Dicționar universal de filme'', (2002, 2003, 2008).
* ''Pe aripile vântului'', (2003)
* ''Istoria cinematografiei în capodopere: De la "
Cântărețul de jazz" la "
Luminile orașului (1927–1931)'', Editura Polirom, 2010
* ''Dicționar subiectiv al realizatorilor filmului românesc'', Editura Polirom, 2013
See also
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Cinema of Romania
The cinema of Romania is the art of motion-picture making within the nation of Romania or by Romanians, Romanian filmmakers abroad. The history of cinema in Romania dates back to the late 19th century, as early as the history of film itself. W ...
References
External links
Criticul de film Tudor Caranfil a muritat
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1931 births
2019 deaths
People from Galați
University of Bucharest alumni
Romanian film critics
Romanian opinion journalists