Kiarostami’s CERTIFIED COPY

Startlingly fluid, beautiful and funny in light and unexpected ways, CERTIFIED COPY bears a startling resemblance to Linklater’s BEFORE SUNSET.  Kiarostami is in an elegant wistful elegiac frame of mind here.   The love he feels for Italian art, food, and the...

Cannes – Day 3

A view of the Palais red stairs before the madness begins on day 3. The cast and crew of Cristi Puiu’s “Aurora” assembles on the Debussy stage with Cannes artistic director Thierry Fremaux. (Very tiny, for sure; this IPhone lacks telephoto.)...

“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...

ONE DAY LESS review

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...

Inde Lisboa – Day 1 more photos

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,...