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Robert Koehler

Festivals: Wavelengths at Toronto

By Robert Koehler
November 11, 2013
TIFF's triumph: the fest's section devoted to experimental and nonnarrative cinema is still going strong

Festivals: Los Angeles (Documentary)

By Robert Koehler
July 10, 2013
Keeping it together: why mingling documentary and narrative is best

Festivals: Los Angeles

By Robert Koehler
July 3, 2013
Seasonal disorder: the lackluster showing of American indies at this year's LAFF

Cannes by Koehler: The Owners & Ate ver a luz

By Robert Koehler
May 31, 2013
The politics of looking through the eyes of another, in this final dispatch

Cannes by Koehler: You and the Night

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2013
Yann Gonzalez’s feature debut announces a supremely gifted young artist is in the house

Cannes by Koehler: Stranger by the Lake

By Robert Koehler
May 24, 2013
Sex on the beach yields cinematic excellence in the hands of under-recognized auteur Alain Guiraudie

Cannes by Koehler: Ilo Ilo, Bends, and The Lunchbox

By Robert Koehler
May 22, 2013
Good old-fashioned sharp storytelling drive three films dramatizing the human cost of East Asia’s continued economic upheaval

Cannes by Koehler: Salvo

By Robert Koehler
May 16, 2013
Live from the Croisette, it's Robert Koehler. First up: Sicilian gangster gumption, courtesy of Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

Cannes Review: Michael Haneke’s Amour

By Robert Koehler
May 29, 2012
This year's Palme d'Or winner portrays unconditional love under dire conditions

Cannes Review: Matteo Garrone’s Reality

By Robert Koehler
May 29, 2012
In the festival's controversial Grand Prix winner, a man becomes obsessed with landing a slot on Big Brother

Cannes Market Watch: Approved for Adoption

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2012
A hybrid movie about a hybrid upbringing: the latest animated documentary has arrived

Cannes Market Watch: The Most Fun You Can Have Dying

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2012
The lighter side of cancer, in a comedic drama about a college student's festive last days

Cannes Market Watch: Stoichkov

By Robert Koehler
May 27, 2012
The richly engaging Bulgarian soccer superstar gets a worthy and loving docu-portrait

Cannes Market Watch: El Puesto

By Robert Koehler
May 25, 2012
The little-noticed ACID section yields a mesmerizingly beautiful nonfiction film about an Argentine jack-of-all-trades

Cannes Market Watch: Life Just Is

By Robert Koehler
May 24, 2012
Alex Barrett’s charming debut, a cliché-busting ensemble piece about twentysomething travails

Cannes Market Watch: Bergman & Magnani: The War of the Volcanoes

By Robert Koehler
May 20, 2012
What went down when Roberto Rossellini made Stromboli next door to his ex-lover

Cannes Market Watch: A Monkey on My Shoulder

By Robert Koehler
May 19, 2012
Juliette Binoche and Edgar Ramirez as a lusty, ludicrous couple

Cannes Market Watch: The Clan

By Robert Koehler
May 17, 2012
An uninspired, no-thrills Spanish thriller set in the Forties under Franco

Koehler on BAFICI: Antennae Up, with Unexpected Signals

By Robert Koehler
May 13, 2012
Robert Koehler on the 14th edition of the expansive Buenos Aires festival

Festivals: Robert Koehler on Riviera Maya

By Robert Koehler
April 17, 2012
Despite the call of sand and surf, the cinematic offerings of the Riviera Maya Film Festival were too good to refuse