It’s a high drama between salad and entree in filmmaker Oren Moverman’s The Dinner. Set in the kind of restaurant that you have to kill someone to get a reservation, two couples meet for great food and even better conversation. And none of them will ever be the same by the time the check arrives.
The Lovers has the star-crossed lovers theme that was fodder for scores of studio films from the 1930s to the 1960s. Even the “twist” in the plot — that the lovers in question are a married couple — is the stuff that made the careers of Doris Day and Rock Hudson Stuck in a marriage
By the time we get to the end of the long day’s journey in A Thousand Junkies, we’re as relieved as three main characters who finally find their fix. Not that we haven’t grown fond of the characters — we have — or, that we want the movie to end — we can’t wait for
In Flames, which also premiered at Tribeca, real-life artists and filmmakers Zeffrey Throwell and Josephine Decker created a docu-drama about their actual relationship. In My Art real-life artist and filmmaker Laurie Simmons takes a different approach, creating a feature that’s ostensibly narrative but seems intertwined closely with her identity. For one thing the lead character,
In this feature documentary the stranger-than-truth story of David Crowley – a young and mediagenic rising alt-right personality – is revealed in chilling detail. A veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars, Crowley was on the cusp of stardom when he, his wife and their 5-year-old daughter were found brutally murdered in their suburban middle-class
Director-writer Sarah Adina Smith has tailored a film perfectly suited to its star Rami Malek (Mr. Robot). In fact, it’s hard to imagine anyone else playing the lead role of the Buster, except perhaps for a young Jack Nicholson. They both share a mesmerizing stare that the camera captures at once as playful and menacing.
Born as a way of redeveloping New York’s Lower Manhattan in the wake of 9/11, Tribeca Film Festival 16 years later is an international film event held over 12 days, April 19-30. Truth be told, most of the film screenings don’t happen in Tribeca anymore, but the can-do, all-inclusive spirit of the festival embodies New