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Copacabana
When Argentine filmmaker Martin Rejtman was asked by a television station to document a large community event, he settled on something he knew little about–a Bolivian music festival in Buenos Aires, and its surrounding immigrant culture. A filmmaker noted for his highly scripted fictional features, Rejtman approached the task [...]
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The Los Angeles Film Festival is well underway, and this the second year the festival has been held in Westwood Village, an outdoor entertainment plaza featuring several movie palaces and a plethora of eateries between UCLA and the largely Persian neighborhood to the south. The location continues to work beautifully–far better than the scattered [...]
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Robert Koehler and I are both planning to attend this year’s LAFF, and as of this afternoon, it looks like I’ve been granted press credentials for the festival, so I plan on writing about a decent share of films. (And rewatching a few favorites, such as Honor of the Knights, Times and Winds, Syndromes [...]
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Wang Bing’s He Fengming
CANNES 2007óTHE FINAL RANKINGS
By Robert Koehler
Below are my final rankings of the films across all sections that I saw before, during and just after Cannes, from best to worst. Given the importance of Cristian Nemescuís California Dreaminí, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard competition, I delayed this final [...]
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After being significantly ill for a while, then traveling out of town, I’ve spent the last couple weeks immersed in writing projects, including the liner notes for the upcoming Masters of Cinema Series DVD release of Masahiro Shinoda’s Silence (1971). Now that everything is wrapped up, I hope to have more time for blogging [...]
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