THE MAN BEYOND THE BRIDGE review

Robert Koehler reviews Laxmikant Shetgaonkar’s Indian drama, “The Man Beyond the Bridge,” at the Palm Springs Film Festival. Shetgaonkar’s debut, the rare film shot in the Konkani language, “is as impressive for its humility as it is for its storytelling confidence.” ...

THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE review

Reviewing Zeina Durra’s wryly amusing “The Imperialists Are Still Alive!” at the Sundance Film Festival, Robert Koehler observes that “any American-made film whose title is taken from a line in Godard’s ‘La Chinoise’ and that draws from the deepwell of Jacques Rivette...

The FIlms That Got Away…

Andy Rector writes in his Kinoslang blog site about Robert Koehler, co-programmer of the Los Angeles Film Critics’ ongoing “The Films That Got Away” series, introducing the Los Angeles premiere screening of Lisandro Alonso’s “Los muertos.”...

FANTASMA review

“It would be one thing if Lisandro Alonso eschewed narrative altogether, and adhered to a cinema purely of sound and image. It would be another if he practiced the old storytelling ways of linearity, cause and effect, character development and the rest. But he does...