by Editor | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
“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...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
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
by Rose Kuo | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
THE FILMS THAT GOT AWAY – AN ONGOING SERIES OF GREAT CINEMATIC WORKS UNDISTRIBUTED IN LOS ANGELES (2006) Presented by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, the Los Angeles Film Festival and the UCLA Film & Television Archive The films selected for the...
by Editor | Apr 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
by Editor | Apr 22, 2010 | Uncategorized
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...
