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and Anamaria Cătănoiu, Center coordinator
Volunteers, highschool and university students: Constantin Drăgoi (București/Bucharest), Ovidiu Panaite (Cluj), Oana Zlatovici (Suedia/Sweden), Olga Unguru, Ioana Tuvene, Alexandra Pădureț (Iași), Mihaela Hăican (București), Liviu Dîrdală, Ioana Cozma, George Georgescu, Alina Rotaru, Andreea Marcu




Thursday, April 22, 2010

We “officially” have a free film Club


Director Teodora Fintinaru speaking

Watching movie

Librarians

Beginning

Anamaria and Sorin
Opaque curtains, a projection screen, a video-projector and even popcorn: this is how the first and only free film Club in Vrancea was inaugurated. 

Along with 30 spectators whom had the pleasure of watching the marvelous movie “Farenheit 451”, screened after Ray Bradbury’s book with the same name, we’ve inaugurated what we hope to be an alternative to the non-existing cinema in our city; this appears to be highly appreciated and encouraged.
After the inauguration of the “Film-fan Club” blog (http://clubulcinefililorfocsani.wordpress.com/), the classic generic of the “Telecinemateca” show, broadcasted on TVR1, opened the movie. After that, librarians, students and teachers enjoyed for 2 hours the story of books banned and burnt in an imaginary future.
At the end of the movie, the spectators were invited to taste the famous popcorn, always associated with movies, and for some chit-chat.
The event was described by Sorin in an article in the “Monitorul de Vrancea” newspaper; we thank the author and the whole news-staff on this occasion for letting us post the article on our blog.
We welcome you thus every Thursday at 5.30 pm to watch and comment on classic movies from Sorin Tudose’s and Vrancea County Library’s collection.  
Article written by Anamaria Catanoiu, The Foreign Language Center coordinator

Monitorul de Vrancea
The film-fan club, a unique project.
By Sorin Tudose
The new project of the “Foreign Language Center” – “The Film-fan Club Focsani” was launched yesterday at the headquarters of the institution. At the event, librarians, students and teachers took part, willing to find out more about this unique club. Those who took part in the project prepared everything in such a way that it made it look like a cinema. Soundtracks, a projection screen, a video-projector and also a vast collection of books regarding the film world assured an atmosphere worthy of such an event. “The proposition of creating such a club was unique but we asked from the very beginning to create something more than just a cinema. We wanted it so that the viewers could talk among themselves after the end of the movie, to exchange opinions because all those things will lead to a wide horizon”, said Teodora Fintinaru, director of Vrancea County Library.
Anamaria Catanoiu, the coordinator of the “Foreign Language Center” also said that such a club is a very good idea, especially because we don’t have a cinema in the city. “We want from this film club to show its members valuable pieces of the film industry and to familiarize them with specialty terms, with the values of the seventh art. Also, we want to attract the community towards <books> through this club because many movies will be played and they could compare them with the inspiration source”, declared Anamaria Catanoiu. The idea of this club came from a film-fan from Focsani who was a member of the “Film-fan Club Iasi”, located in the “Cultural Center” in Copou park and which turned five years old not long ago.
After the members found out all the information about the club and its blog (http://clubulcinefililorfocsani.wordpress.com/), they all watched the movie “Farenheit 451”, a screening after Ray Bradbury’s book with the same name. This happened after the nostalgic generic of “Telecinemateca” was played and the older guests remembered their childhood. The participants were pleasantly surprised by the movie but also by this idea which is meant to bring a new vibe to the county cultural space.
The film enthusiasts can now meet every Thursday at 5.30 pm at the headquarters of the Foreign Language Center. Two movies from every great director of the universal movie industry will be played. Next Thursday they will play the classic movie of Richard Brooks “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” with Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor. The movies belong to the library’s own collection as well as the initiator’s collection. The club is open to everyone regardless of age and is free because it is created with a cultural-educational purpose. For the feeling of a group membership the library will create personalized badges for every interested person. (Sorin Tudose)

Translated by Ovidiu Panaite - volunteer

Wednesday, April 21, 2010

The inauguration of a cinema-club at the Foreign Language Center

The inauguration of a free cinema-club for all ages is one of the unique activities and surprises that the Vrancea County Library offers during the “Librarian’s week”.
            Thursday, the 22nd of April, at 1pm, at the Foreign Language Center the inauguration of a new free cinema-club will take place and also the blog will be launched and the first movie will be played.
          The initiator of this unique project in Vrancea is the journalist Sorin Tudose, a young cinema-enthusiast, who wanted to make one of his dreams from college come true. The project, along with its partners the County Library and the  POTPOURRI Association from Focsani, is a very complex one because of its educational and formative component which make it unique and tends to become more than just “watching a movie”.
            After the inauguration, the first official movie, “Farenheit 451”, a “classic” gift, from 1966, will be played for the genre enthusiasts, but also for the librarians; also, the blog “Focsani film-fan club” will be launched (http://clubulcinefililorfocsani.wordpress.com/).
            The club is free for everyone.  The meetings will be held every week, on Thursdays, at 5.30pm, at the headquarters of the Foreign Language Center; the club is open for everyone, regardless the age.
            “Sorin Tudose’s idea was well-received because it is a unique project for our county. The idea is very good also because, for the moment, there is no active cinema in our city. We want to re-create the atmosphere present in a cinema, but our purpose is a more profound one; to be educational and formative, not just for the viewing. We want to teach them about the cinematic art and we do this starting with the book, the original novel. The library has all the necessary resources to permit the club’s members to form a correct and complete view over the seventh art”.

The schedule of the National Librarian’s week in Romania continues at all the library’s sections with a series of events:
Thursday, 22nd of April, 12pm, in the youth section, Earth Day will be celebrated by the parents and children of the No. 6 Kindergarten Focsani; they will be bringing fish for the library’s aquarium under the coordination of educator Oancea Valerica.
Thursday, 22nd of April, 2pm, at the headquarters, the presentation of the collections and services for the Pedagogical Highschool “Spiru Haret” will take place under the coordination of prof. Ion Stanel and Marcu Livia, library’s collaborators. 

Written by Anamaria Catanoiu, Foreign Language Center coordinator
Translated by Ovidiu Panaite - volunteer