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Tribeca Film Festival

Beneath the Harvest Sky

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 […]

Tribeca Film Festival 2014 Award Winners

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 Tidbits 2014

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 […]

Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me

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 […]

S#x Acts

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 […]

A Look Back at Tribeca

For the first time since it was founded 11 years ago, the narrative films competing for awards at the Tribeca Film Festival made up a noteworthy and motley bunch, and it was a real race. Usually gems by an unknown filmmaker made without any stars can be discovered in the various sidebars, but this year, […]

Tribeca Odds & Ends

Some of Tribeca Film Festival’s lesser-known documentaries and fiction films were the strongest I’d seen in the program. There were certainly standouts, films that had what seemed like impossible footage of an event—Alias Ruby Blade shares secrets firsthand from within the heart of a country’s rebellion—or feature films that explore familiar territory with nuance and […]

Tribeca 2013 Documentaries

The more than two dozen documentaries at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival aimed for hearts and minds and many succeeded as audience pleasers. This year’s selections, in and out of competition and as special events, straddled the world, and are notable for their timeliness, for celebrating people at a surprising variety of work, and for […]

The Tribeca Grindhouse

This year at the Tribeca film festival, now in its 12th year, films from all over the world included some by major names (Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight and David Gordon Green’s Prince Avalanche) and newcomers trying to make their mark, not to mention the countless documentaries and short films. But not to be overlooked amid […]