by Robert Koehler | May 23, 2010 | Film Festival News, Reviews
You would have to go back to either 1999–when the Dardennes won for “Rosetta”–or 1997–when Abbas Kiarostami won for “Taste of Cherry” in a tie with Imamura Shohei for “The Eel” and when Tim Burton was a member of...
by Robert Koehler | May 23, 2010 | Film Festival News, Reviews
Less than an hour before the announcement of the Palme and other prizes, rumors are swirling over possible winners based on sightings of who’s in Cannes….and who’s not. In the latter category, count Mike Leigh, which makes “Another Year”...
by Robert Koehler | May 23, 2010 | Film Festival News, Reviews
Jean-Luc Godard (and his Les Inrocks interview) marked the starting point for this year’s Cannes blogging, partly because I anticipated that his “Film Socialisme” would certainly be one of the major films at the festival. It is that, and more, since...
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 | 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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