Written and Directed by Nadav Schirman, based on the memoir Son of Hamas by Mosab Hassan Yousef
Produced by Schirman, John Battsek and Simon Chinn
Released by Music Box Films
Germany/Israel/UK. 101 min. Rated PG-13
This summer’s front page photographs from Gaza of masked Hamas gunmen executing accused collaborators with Israel gives The Green Prince urgent immediacy. This […]
Written and Directed by Israel Horovitz, based on his play
Produced by Rachael Horovitz and Gary Foster
Released by Cohen Media Group
USA/France. 104 min. Rated PG-13
With Kevin Kline, Kristin Scott Thomas, Maggie Smith, Dominique Pinon, Noémie Lvovsky and Stéphane De Groodt
My Old Lady puts a sophisticated Parisian spin on the movie genre of forced, shared real estate […]
Produced and Directed by Rory Kennedy
Written by Mark Bailey and Keven McAlester
Released by American Experience Films
USA. 98 min. Not rated
The first-person accounts in Last Days in Vietnam put the audience into a gripping you-are-there Saigon in April 1975, when the United States ingloriously exited from 20 years of involvement while the whole world was watching. […]
Written and Directed by Cherien Dabis
Produced by Dabis, Alix Madigan-Yorkin and Christopher Tricarico
Released by Cohen Media Group
Jordan/Qatar/USA. 99 min. Rated R
English and Arabic with English subtitles
With Dabis, Alia Shawkat, Nadine Malouf, Ritu Singh Pande, Hiam Abbass, Alexander Siddig, Elie Mitri, and Bill Pullman
May in the Summer centers on a refreshingly normal middle-class family coming home […]
Written and Directed by John Michael McDonagh
Produced by Chris Clark, Flora Fernandez Marengo and James Flynn
Released by Fox Searchlight Pictures
Ireland/UK. 104 Min. Rated R
With Brendan Gleeson, Chris O’Dowd, Kelly Reilly, Aidan Gillen, Dylan Moran, Isaach De Bankolé, M. Emmet Walsh, Marie-Josée Croze, Domhnall Gleeson, David Wilmot, Mícheál Óg Lane, Killian Scott, and Owen Sharpe
Calvary […]
This year, the Tribeca Film Festival gave awards to pointed portraits of political engagement. These documentaries raise thoughtful and tangled issues about how the very personal becomes political.
Point and Shoot
A shy OCD-beset young guy, Matt VanDyke, left his mother’s Baltimore basement and his girlfriend for a North African-to-Middle Eastern odyssey, and plunged into war zones […]
Directed by Alex Gibney
Produced by Gibney and Jack Gulick
Released by Kino Lorber
US/UK/Nigeria/France. 119 min. Not Rated
Finding Fela started out as the making-of the Tony-winning Broadway show Fela!, before journeying with the American production’s tour to superstar Fela Kuti’s home base in Lagos, Nigeria. With the discovery of rare performance outtakes and archival footage, plus the […]
Directed by Jonathan Demme
Produced by Rocco Caruso, André Gregory, and Wallace Shawn
Written by Shawn, based on Gregory’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s play Master Builder Solness
Released by Abramorama
USA. 127min. Not rated
With Wallace Shawn, Lisa Joyce, Julie Hagerty, André Gregory, Jeff Biehl, Emily Cass McDonnell, and Larry Pine
A Master Builder is an enthralling deflation of the archetypal […]
The Power of Art: Real or Fake
Documentaries on artists are an annual presence at the Tribeca Film Festival, but the breadth of art this year is exceptional.
Tomorrow We Disappear
By the time directors Jimmy Goldblum and Adam Weber finally got around to finishing Salman Rushdie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children (just before I did), they were surprised […]
