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 | Uncategorized
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...
by Editor | May 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
object>Robert Koehler blogs at Film Journey that a terrific debut in the Berlinale Forum is So Sang-min’s amusing “I’m in Trouble!” The influence of the great Korean director Hong Sang-soo becomes a major strength for the comedy, which Koehler says “might be...
by Editor | May 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Robert Koehler reviews Joaquin Mora’s “Weekend,” which “begins as a friendly road trip” and becomes a film about “a potential ménage a trois that resists classification as a drama, comedy or dramedy.” Koehler observes that Mora has joined “the growing list of young,...
by editor | May 1, 2010 | Uncategorized
Turning left from the poster banner in the previous image is this northern view up Culturgest hq for Indie Lisboa. Note another aspect of a festival’s graphic system: Pole banners, featuring this festival’s chosen animal mascot. Berlin had its bear,...
