Category: Film Festivals
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Tribeca Film Festival: Triple-Award Winner ‘The Divine Order’ Celebrates Women’s Suffrage in Switzerland
Petra Volpe’s German-language film, “The Divine Order,” set in Switzerland won three awards at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. The jury awarded it the Nora Ephron Prize and Best Actress in an international film to Marie Leuenberger. The movie also won the Audience Award for best overall narrative film. It’s rare for a film to…
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘Intent to Destroy’ Doc Sets Record Straight About Armenian Genocide
After seeing “The Promise” recently and attending a press conference with director Terry George and stars Christian Bale, Oscar Isaac, and Charlotte Le Bon (see my story on that narrative film), I wanted to be sure and see Joe Berlinger’s documentary “Intent to Destroy” at the Tribeca Film Festival. Also see Paula Schwartz’s coverage of…
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Tribeca Film Festival: A Rundown of 7 Narrative Shorts
I had a chance to watch seven of the narrative short films in the Tribeca Film Festival. Some of them include big stars and have excellent production values.
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Tribeca Film Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’
The Tribeca Film Festival celebrated the 25th anniversary of Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” with a special screening at the Beacon Theater Friday evening. Following the screening the film’s stars reunited for an epic panel that featured Tarantino, Michael Madsen, Harvey Keitel, Steve Buscemi, Tim Roth, moderated by entertainment writer Lynn Hirschberg. Taking the stage for…
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“Intent to Destroy,’ Joe Berlinger’s Doc About the Armenian Genocide Premieres at Tribeca Film Festival
“It’s a gloomy night and a gloomy subject,” said Oscar-nominated director Joe Berlinger (“Paradise Lost Trilogy,” “Brother’s Keeper,” “Metallica: Some Kind of Monster”) at the premiere of his new film, “Intent to Destroy: Death, Denial & Depiction,” at the Tribeca Film Festival. It was a dark, rainy night, which seemed fitting, given the serious subject…
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Tribeca Fest Review: Tom Hanks, Emma Watson in ‘The Circle’
I wanted to like “The Circle.” After all, it stars Tom Hanks, Emma Watson of Harry Potter fame, and Patton Oswalt – actors I always enjoy. I was also interested in the subject matter – the mining of our personal information from our activities on the internet and on our phones.
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The Resilient Heart,’ ‘Warning: This Drug May Kill You’ Docs Focus on Health Crises
Two documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival focus on current health crises, and in the process, they give opposite views of the medical profession. Both films, incidentally, were directed by women.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Tom Hanks and Emma Watson Star in Stylish Thriller ‘The Circle’
Tom Hanks and Emma Watson walked the red carpet at the starry world premiere of their new movie “The Circle” at the Tribeca Film Festival Wednesday evening. Adapted from David Eggers’s 2013 futuristic novel by director/producer James Ponsoldt, the swanky thriller is about a vast tech and social media corporation called The Circle that stores…
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘A River Below’ Chronicles Complexities of Trying to Save Amazon’s Pink River Dolphins
In 1999, I visited the Brazilian Amazon and got to see a couple of pink river dolphins at a distance. After watching the Tribeca Film Festival documentary, “A River Below,” directed by Mark Grieco, I feel even luckier than I did on that day in ’99. That’s because these dolphins are significantly endangered. In Brazil…
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Tribeca Film Festival: ‘The Last Animals’ is Harrowing Look at Animal Extinction at the Hands of Man
War photographer turned documentary filmmaker Kate Brooks is brave and passionate. She has covered wars and child abuses in Russian state orphanages. She has seen horrific atrocities committed against people. Now, she turns her attention to atrocities committed against wild animals, traveling within Asia, Africa, Europe, and the U.S.
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Tribeca Film Festival: Debra Winger and Tracy Letts Are Cheating Spouses in ‘The Lovers’
“One day you’re naked in bed and the next day you’re on the red carpet,” Debra Winger told me at the premiere of her new film, “The Lovers,” an original sex comedy that manages to be both serious and farcical. Written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, Tracy Letts and Winger co-star as Michael and Mary,…
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Tribeca Fest Review: Burt Reynolds Like You’ve Never Seen Him in ‘Dog Years’
Burt Reynolds, now 81 years old, has continued to work in little known films and TV series. In the indie, “Dog Years” playing at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, he’s in excellent form, playing a role that might be a bit autobiographical.