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More From Tribeca

The Tribeca Film Festival offers such a wide array of films from all over the world that some many get passed by amid the list of so-much-to-see-ooh-I-want-to-see-that. With that in mind, here are some notable titles. Francophrenia (or: Don’t Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is) This is, to my knowledge, one of the […]

Tribeca Film Festival 2012

Could the higher quality in this year’s world narrative competition be the result of administration changes administration, namely the appointment of Frédéric Boyer, formerly of the Cannes Film Festival, as artistic director of the Tribeca Film Festival? Whatever the reason, there has been a step up in this section, which has in years past been […]

Turn Me On, Dammit!

Written & Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, based on the novel Fa Meg Pa, For Faen! by Olaug Nilssen Produced by Brede Hovland & Sigve Endresen Released by New Yorker Films Norwegian with English subtitles Norway. 76 min. Not Rated With Helene Bergsholm, Malin Bjorhovde, Beate Stofring, Matias Myren, Lars Nordtveit Listau & Henriette Steenstrup […]

My Piece of the Pie

Written & Directed by Cédric Klapisch Produced by Bruno Levy Released by Sundance Selects English & French with English subtitles France. 109 min. Not rated With Karin Viard & Gilles Lellouche Cédric Klapisch’s boisterous films cram many characters and storylines into two (or so) hours. His last effort, Paris, was even more kaleidoscopic than usual, […]

Bombay Beach

Directed by Alma Har’el Produced by Har’el & Boaz Yakin Released by Boaz Yakin Presents USA. 80 min. Not Rated Director Alma Har’el takes a rambling tour of the human fauna in a Sonoran Desert ghost town at the southeastern tip of California. Over the course of a year, she uses several different visual techniques […]