by editor | May 7, 2010 | Film Festival News
From: Robert Koehler <roberthkoehler@gmail.com> Date: April 26, 2010 9:52:08 AM PDT Subject: Indie Lisboa–Days 3-4 Revolution Day! 25 April marked the 36th anniversary of Portugal’s liberation from the corrosive Salazar dictatorship which had been...
by editor | May 6, 2010 | Film Festival News
From: Robert Koehler <roberthkoehler@gmail.com> Date: April 23, 2010 4:48:19 AM PDT Subject: Indie Lisboa–Day 1 While writing at my hotel room desk, CNN International begins airing the live edition of Thursday night’s second UK election debate. The...
by editor | May 4, 2010 | Film Festival News
Sent from my iPhone From: Robert Koehler Date: April 23, 2010 3:24:50 AM PDT Subject: Indie Lisboa–Day 1 You just can’t stop Lu Chuan, whose “City of Life and Death” we programmed last year in Los Angeles and has travelled widely on the...
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 2, 2010 | Film Festival News
Tom Hall blogs at his site The Back Row Manifesto on the move of American film critics, including Festworks programmer Robert Koehler, into film festival programming. He reflects on his view of the realities of programming during an interesting period for film...
by Robert Koehler | May 1, 2010 | Film Festival News
Here’s your first sighting outside Indie Lisboa headquarters at Lisbon’s vast cultural center, Culturgest. The festival’s poster design this year plays on the same Ben Day dots style which Roy Lechtnestein imported into his form of Pop Art nearly...
