This year’s Tribeca Film Festival began on April 17 with a rock ‘n’ roll movie, “Mistaken for Strangers,” and had its official closing-night gala on Saturday with the appearance of Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Jerry Lewis for a screening of the 1983 film “The King of Comedy.”

In between, close to 100 features screened, a number of transmedia projects were showcased, Clint Eastwood talked about how film is still better than video, and the festival put on a day of sports films and a day of family films and a number of panels and discussions.

It’s hard to draw any firm conclusions from a festival that runs the gamut from Elaine Stritch to Muhammad Ali, from the words of Gore Vidal to a Paul Verhoeven film whose script was crowd-sourced, from bleak little indies to outdoor screenings of “Beetlejuice” and...

Clint Eastwood knows it's inevitable that digital cameras will overtake 35 mm film, but he said at a Tribeca Film Festival discussion on Eastwood's career with director Darren Aronofsky on Saturday that it's a change he's resisting.

The panel discussion included the world premiere of "Eastwood Directs," an hour-long love letter to the "Mystic River" director that was made by critic Richard Schickel.

After the showing, Eastwood said he has done testing with digital cameras, and though he admires the depth of focus the technology brings to an image, he still believes that traditional film offers more visual flavor.

He has yet to shoot a movie digitally.

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"Flex Is Kings" and its inspirational look at Brooklyn's flex dancing movement has been one of the standouts of this year's Tribeca Film Festival. It's a film with enough grit to attract indie crowds and enough uplift to delight a more mainstream audience.

The highly athletic style of dance at the center of the low-budget documentary involves contortions and jumping that are daring, aggressive and even, at points balletic. The dancers' artistry contrasts sharply with their blighted surroundings.

Directors Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols filmed their slice of life documentary over a period of two years, raising much of the money from crowdfunding sites. For Schoo, a photographer by training, it also involved taking on a new skill. This marks her first feature film.

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Robert De Niro, he of "You Talkin' to Me" fame, met internet phenomenon Lil Bub at the Tribeca Film Festival's Directors Brunch on Tuesday, and thankfully there were cameras present to capture the meeting of two entertainment giants for posterity.

Bob, as he is known to friends, co-founded the indie film festival unfolding in Manhattan this week. Bub is at Tribeca representing the documentary "Lil Bub & Friendz," which examines the web's fascination with cute cats. She has scored legions of fans because a congenital defect has left her features perpetually kitty-like -- a quality that few would ascribe to De Niro.

"Lil Bub &...