by Editor | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
Robert Koehler asks “who could have anticipated that one of the most effective and expressive environmental films of recent years would be the work of a Gotham theater director who’s never before made a doc?” Nobody, as he discusses in his review of Josh Fox’s...
by Editor | Apr 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Laura Poitras’ acclaimed doc “The Oath” shown at the Sundance Film Festival is genuinely fascinating and thoughtful as a complicated portrait of Osama bin Laden’s former bodyguard. read review
by Editor | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
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.” ...
by Editor | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
“To state it in the bluntest terms,” argues Robert Koehler in his Christian Science Monitor review, “Sidney Lumet’s ‘Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead’ is one of the great American films of the past decade, and the crowning masterpiece of Lumet’s long career.” read...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
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.”...
