{"podcast":{"title":"The Projection Booth","slug":"the-projection-booth-407558","podcast_index_feed_id":407558,"rss_url":"https://www.spreaker.com/show/5513239/episodes/feed","website_url":"https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com","image_url":"https://d3wo5wojvuv7l.cloudfront.net/t_rss_itunes_square_1400/images.spreaker.com/original/d20d0731450590f8bce760b347a9ee76.jpg","author":"The Projection Booth","episode_count":1000,"summary":"The Projection Booth features discussions of films from a wide variety of genres with in-depth critical analysis while regularly attracting special guest talent eager to discuss their past gems. The podcast has been recognized as a premier film podcast by The A.V. Club, IndieWire, Entertainment Weekly, and Filmmaker Magazine. Visit http://www.projectionboothpodcast.com Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support .","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T18:18:26.593435+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 801: Reconstituirea (1968)","slug":"episode-801-reconstituirea-1968","published_at":"2026-05-27T07:00:03+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558/episode-801-reconstituirea-1968","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558","url":"https://www.projectionboothpodcast.com/2026/05/episode-801-reconstituirea-1968.html","audio_url":"https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/https://op3.dev/e/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/72178097/ep801_reconstituirea.mp3","summary":"In 1968, Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie completed his second film, Reconstituirea — known in English as Reconstruction or The Reenactment — and, within a month of its 1970 release, it vanished. Not banned outright, but buried: withdrawn, never televised, never revived for nearly two decades. By the time Romanian audiences could see it freely in 1990, it had acquired near-mythological status. A 2008 critics' poll ranked it the greatest Romanian film ever made. 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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-projection-booth--5513239/support . Become a supporter of The Projection Booth at http://www.patreon.com/projectionbooth","meta_description":"In 1968, Romanian filmmaker Lucian Pintilie completed his second film, Reconstituirea — known in English as Reconstruction or The Reenactment — and, withi…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7688,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-projection-booth-407558/episodes/episode-801-reconstituirea-1968/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-projection-booth-407558/episode-801-reconstituirea-1968.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}