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High-school, we used to skip classes to go together to the movies. And it was terrible if, when gluing the filmīack together, a scene of the movie would be lost… He would never hear theĪnd some probably can still remember that, no matter in what cinema you went at the time, if actors would kiss on screen, as that was all that was allowed, there were some “hooligans” who used to shout: “Old people, don’t look!” HIGH SCHOOL LIFE Not too injurious, yet naughty enough to make the man taking care of the It did not matter what we were watching.Īlways break at some point, the moment when everybody would boo and say things, Adventure movies, who-done-it movies or the Navaronne” or the famous Indian movie “Yaadon Ki Baaraat” – Or the Alain Delon movies – “Zorro”, “Black Tulip”… Theīald Kojak or Jean Gabin, Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, “The Guns of We would spit the skins in another cornet or on the floor – the ones from the category “is this what they teach you at home?!?”. We would buy sunflower or pumpkin roasted and salted seeds in newspaper cornets, some sort of an ancestor for the nowadays popcorn. No heat and you’d have to watch the movie with your coat on. Wooden, so uncomfortable, your ass would literally hurt if the movie was too I grew up in Bucurestii Noi (New Bucharest – if we were to translate the name of the neighborhood) and the first cinema I would go to with my friends was Excelsior.

Have malls, or cool, high-tech cinemas, with comfortable armchairs, perfect

When the TV program was two hours long… And dull, I’d say. Those halls that were incorporated in the blocks of flats, on the groundįloor… The cinema halls where we could watch movies during Ceausescu’s era, Just by chance, I went on the trail of my childhood cinemas. Or “Look at the parking lot they made there the Straulesti swimming pool, where we used to spend our summers!”, “Look at the living quarters they built where Marmura factory used to be!”… and so many other similar exclamations, surprises or even feelings of emotion when I see the changes every day brings to this city under my very eyes. “Here was the famous Dacia textile factory, right here, were this supermarket is”.

All the places here are very familiar to me, I see all the changes, but I have trouble in accepting them as they trigger nostalgia.