Drive and The Tiniest Place
By Robert Koehler
A running conversation at film festivals in the US and abroad (mostly abroad): The urgency of film criticism to advocate for certain cinema, and ignore the other cinemas. The best reason? Life is too short to deal very much or very long with crap, and is much better spent [...]
Entries from June 2011
What Matters at the Los Angeles Film Festival
June 21st, 2011 by Robert Koehler · 6 Comments
Categories: Commentary · Film festival
Boyer Out, 108 and Decline In
June 20th, 2011 by Robert Koehler · 7 Comments
By Robert Koehler
The Society of French Directors (SRF), which governs the Quinzaine des Realisiteurs, or Directors Fortnight, has dismissed Quinzaine director Frederic Boyer after his second and stormy year. The 2011 edition was roundly criticized and even lambasted (see Jacques Telemacque’s widely discussed Le Monde attack that ran during the festival), and suffered particularly in [...]
Categories: Commentary · Film festival