Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, director of the just-concluded Tribeca Film Festival's Norwegian teen drama Turn Me On, Goddammit!, was enjoying her time in New York--she happily showed The Observer an iPhone shot of herself and Robert DeNiro. Her willowy teenage star, Helene Bergsholm, was visiting New York for the first time. "I don't wanna go home," Read More
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New York's "foodies" are ravenous--not for food (they eat often, and they eat well), but for a new joint to obsess over. They're in luck! David Bouley has finally emerged from community board headaches and other location mishegoss to open Brushstroke, the Japanese restaurant of our drool-inducing fever dreams. The prix-fixe Read More
Pan-achieving poster-boy James Franco screened his documentary Saturday Night on Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival. The Times reports that Mr. Franco was given "wide-ranging access," unearthing such nuggets as:
Most of the “SNL” cast and writers seem to operate with at least some level of sleep deprivation, owing largely to the Read More
The week sure started strong.
The Journal's cheekily named new section -- "Greater New York," that's some kind of pun, no? -- arrived on Monday, followed on Tuesday by a hotly-anticipated Senate appearance for Lloyd Blankfein, Fabulous Fab, and the rest of the Goldman gang. Both were, to be honest, a bit of a Read More
It's hard to think of another actress who's as consistently compelling as Patricia Clarkson. Even in Shutter Island—in a role that didn't even need to be in the film—she shined; it's no wonder Martin Scorsese didn't have the heart to excise what was a completely unnecessary scene. How do you leave an actress the caliber Read More
The Tribeca Film Festival announced its award winners last night--they include When We Leave, for best narrative feature; and Monica and David, for best documentary feature. A complete list is posted here, and the winning films will be screened on Sunday at Village East Cinemas.
Think the Tribeca Film Festival is only for capital-F Film snobs? Consider The Infidel, a fish-out-of-water comedy from England that's so mainstream in its roots, it feels like the latest from Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions.
Which would make Omid Djalili the stand-in for Kevin James. Short, bald and rotund, Mr. Djalili—a famed British comic—stars as Read More
The enjoyment you get out of The Last Play at Shea is directly proportional to your tolerance of Billy Joel and love of the New York Mets. Paul Crowder's documentary about Mr. Joel performing the final concert at Shea Stadium premiered at Tribeca this week and it will make anyone who grew up in the Read More
Even now, ten years after the release of Christopher Nolan’s indie hit Memento, people are still trying to figure out what the movie is actually about. On Saturday afternoon, NPR’s Robert Krulwich, the host of a Tribeca Talks panel celebrating the film’s tenth anniversary, opened his discussion with questions not for Guy Pearce or Joe Read More
"When do you sleep?" The Observer's Rex Reed asked the 76-year-old Joan Rivers above the din of a standing ovation at the New York premiere of Joan Rivers — A Piece of Work last night. And that's a good question. Because after watching the new documentary based on a year in her busy life, one Read More
Olivier Dahan, director of La Vie En Rose—the Oscar-winning flick based on the life of Edith Piaf—looks very “French movie director,” so it was fitting that he be seated at the head of the table at a cocktail hour for French films at the Tribeca Film festival on Friday evening. (The L-shaped table was mere Read More
After Alex Gibney's untitled and unfinished Eliot Spitzer documentary—inevitably using the working title of Client 9—premiered to raves on Saturday night, My Trip to Al-Qaeda might feel like an afterthought. For one thing, Al-Qaeda is already ticketed for cable—HBO picked it up and plans to premiere it in the fall—and for another, it isn't nearly Read More
Someone should have told director Bryan Goluboff that indie filmmakers are supposed to make "serious" pictures and not derivative and fun high-school comedies. Alas, maybe next time.
Mr. Goluboff's directorial debut, Beware the Gonzo, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival last night, and it immediately feels like the type of late-summer indie sleeper Read More
To give you a sense of how big the Tribeca Film Festival has become, look no further than opening night. During the first year of the festival, in 2002, About a Boy—the small-minded Nick Hornby adaptation starring Hugh Grant—kicked things off; this year, it’s Shrek Forever After, the fourth film in DreamWorks Animation’s billion-dollar franchise.
What Read More
James Franco--permanent grad student, occasional celebrity, and Esquire short story author--is now showing a movie at the Tribeca Film Festival. Reports The Times:
The film by Mr. Franco (who has twice hosted the show himself) takes an inside look at an "SNL" episode hosted by John Malkovich in December 2008. The documentary Read More
