Episode 801: Reconstituirea (1968)
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The Projection Booth
4.6 • 709 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 134 minutes
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Summary
The premise is deceptively simple: two young men, Vuică and Ripu, get drunk at their graduation party, brawl with a bartender, and are offered a deal — reenact the fight for an educational film about the dangers of alcohol and walk free. What follows is a sustained, darkly comic, and finally devastating examination of what happens when institutional power turns a camera on the people it controls.
Mike talks with Spencer Parsons and Andrei Idu about Pintilie's deliberate subversion and why this film became the foundation for the entire Romanian New Wave. Guest interview Radu Toderici -- whose essay about the film will be featured as part of the upcoming book ReFocus: The Films of Lucian Pintilie.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, this is Chris Haskell from They Live by Film. |
| 0:04.0 | For those that don't know us, Adam, Zach and I, we built a podcast over the last two years that's a combination of film discussion from three very different perspectives, |
| 0:13.0 | as well as industry interviews with the leaders in Boutique Blu-ray and 4K community. |
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| 0:38.3 | Hello, this is Aaron West. I am the author of the A24 New Wave. |
| 0:50.3 | In this book, I look at A24's output, and I make the argument that we are in a new wave movement |
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| 1:28.3 | Hello, my name is Kevin Tudor, and I'm one of the three hosts of almost major, a film |
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| 1:37.2 | Every week, myself, Charlie Nash, and Brighton Doyle discuss overlooked, forgotten, or bona fide |
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