by Editor | May 3, 2010 | Film Festival News
Robert Koehler roams far and wide across the jam-packed festivals to select certain gems in the first in a series of blog reports for Film Journey. The Rotterdam discoveries include programmer Gerwin Tamsma’s superb sidebar on the Barcelona-based Pompeu Fabra school...
by Editor | May 3, 2010 | Reviews
Marking a breakthrough for Venezuelan filmmaking, Rosana Matecki’s “Story of a Day” is an “inventive, impassioned and striking paean to the lives of the rural poor,” Robert Koehler reviews at the Guadalajara Film Festival. “Rather than a variation on a...
by Editor | May 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
“The vibrant result of three years of research, travel and filming in the remote Amazonia section where Brazil, Colombia and Peru meet” says Robert Koehler of Maya Da-Rin’s non-fiction film, “Lands,” at the Guadalajara Film Festival. It’s “a gorgeous work of art as...
by Editor | May 3, 2010 | Uncategorized
Dariela Ludlow’s feature debut “One Day Less” is “a small masterpiece of mouse-in-the-corner cinema,” declares Robert Koehler in his review at the Guadalajara Film Festival. Observing her aging, funny grandparents in their Acapulco oceanfront apartment, Ludlow...
by Editor | May 3, 2010 | Reviews
object>“Writer-director Maria Novaro shifts into a refreshingly laid-back mood” for her new film, “The Good Herbs,” writes Robert Koehler in his review at the Guadalajara Film Festival. The key, Koehler notes, is that Novaro “eschews melodrama and instead weaves a...
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