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 […]
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 […]
Written and Directed by Gia Coppola, based on Palo Alto: Stories by James Franco Produced by Sebastian Pardo, Adriana Rotaru, Miles Levy and Vince Jolivette Released by Tribeca Film USA. 98 min. Not rated With James Franco, Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, Zoe Levin, Claudia Levy, Olivia Crocicchia, Jack Kilmer, and Jacqui Getty Based on a […]
Directed by Marion Vernoux Produced by François Kraus, Juliette Favreul Renaud, and Denis Pineau-Valencienne Written by Vernoux & Fanny Chesnel, based on Chesnel’s novel Released by Tribeca Film France. 94 min. Not rated With Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais, and Jean-François Stevenin Director Marion Vernoux’s original French title, Les Beaux Jours, literally means The Good […]
Written and Directed by Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly Produced Gaudet, Gita Pullapilly and Kavita Pullapilly Released by Tribeca Film USA. 116 min. Not rated With Emory Cohen, Callan McAuliffe, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Levin, Sarah Sutherland, Timm Sharp and Timothy Simons As the brainchild of married couple Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly, Beneath the Harvest […]
Even though “international” doesn’t appear in the Tribeca Film Festival’s name, it has always included a wide variety of nationalities. Since its first year, the festival’s inclusive programming has showcased an array of genres from all over the world. Now in its 13th year, the broad-minded focus remains true, though there are not too many […]
Tribeca Film Festival, which has brought audiences Eddie: The Sleepwalking Cannibal and Trollhunter in the past, brings two more B-movies with tell-it-like-it-is titles in its genre laden Midnight section, plus the world premiere of an amicable American indie with TV stars Leighton Meester and Gillian Jacobs. Life Partners Directed by Susanna Fogel Written by Susanna […]
Directed by Chiemi Karasawa Produced by Karasawa & Elizabeth Hemmerdinger Released by Sundance Selects USA. 81 min. Not rated In the twilight of her career, veteran actress Elaine Stritch has won both an Emmy and Grammy for her 2002 one-woman Broadway show, Elaine Stritch at Liberty, her tell-all song and dish about this broad’s life […]
Directed by Jonathan Gurfinkel Produced by Udi Yerushalmy Written by Rona Segal Released by Tribeca Film Hebrew with English subtitles Israel. 96 min. Not rated With Sivan Levy, Eviatar Mor, Roy Nik, Niv Zilberberg , Tal Grushka, Eran Ivanir & Ronit Yudkevich Some might argue that high school is the worst period in life—the raging […]