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...

EL CUSTODIO review by Robert Koehler

In his fascinating film, “El custodio,” director Rodrigo Moreno positions a taciturn bodyguard for a workaholic bureaucrat as a kind of human camera, with fascinating results, says Robert Koehler in his review for the FIPRESCI website.  read review

GENERAL ORDERS NO. 9 reivew

Robert Persons’ “General Orders No. 9” is “a true original,” declares Robert Koehler in his review of the film at the Slamdance Film Festival. It “combines pictorialism and impressionist imagery with a lovely prose-poem text that rewards repeated viewings” while...

THE SUN BEHIND THE CLOUDS review by Robert Koehler

Robert Koehler reviews Ritu Sarin’s and Tenzing Sonam’s “The Sun Behind the Clouds” at the Palm Springs Film Festival. This is “a welcome departure from many previous films about the decades-long friction between Tibet and China,” Koehler writes.  read...