Tribeca 2013: Will Forte Gets Serious - And That Scares Him
April, 22, 2013 7:34 am | Comments On #film festivals, Movies, Run and Jump, tribeca film festival, Will ForteFor the 15 years he’s been in show business, Will Forte has done one thing: comedy. As a member of the Groundlings improv comedy troupe, as a writer for David Letterman, as a member of the "Saturday Night Live" cast for eight years and as an actor in films and TV shows like "That’s My Boy," "30 Rock" and the "SNL" spinoff "MacGruber," his stock-in-trade has been an earnest, clean-cut weirdness, with not a hint of serious acting on his resume.
That changed at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, where Forte showed up with "Run and Jump," a small indie in which Forte plays an American researcher who moves in with an Irish family to document the effects of a stroke on the family’s husband. A quiet, intimate drama that focuses on the growing bond between Forte’s character and the played by...
Read MoreTribeca 2013: On 'Interactive Day,' It's the Who-Needs-Film? Festival
April, 21, 2013 6:55 am | Comments On #film festivals, Movies, Paul Verhoeven, tribeca film festivalSaturday was TFI Interactive Day at the Tribeca Film Festival, which means that it was a day when the film festival spent a lot of time spotlighting and talking about things that qualify as film only in the broadest, loosest definition.
By devoting the day to a series of panels and talks about digital channels, platforms, gaming, interactive hotlines, apps, crowd-funding, transmedia, web-based narratives and interactive data visualizations – while at the same time, a full day of screenings of regular old films was taking place around lower Manhattan – the festival tried to stake its claim as the festival that looks to the future of visual entertainment, even if that future is all about “digital storytelling” rather than film as we know it.
“Film is the appetizer,” Webby Awards founder Tiffany Shlain said in her keynote...
Read MoreTribeca: 'Stand Clear of the Closing Doors' Draws Its Power from Hurricane Sandy
April, 19, 2013 9:56 am | Comments On #hurricane sandy, Movies, Sam Fleischner, tribeca film festivalWhen Sam Fleischner set out to film "Stand Clear of the Closing Doors," he fully expected the kind of headaches and logistical nightmares that crop up when operating a shoe-string budget while directing a cast comprised of many non-actors.
What he hadn't bargained for -- indeed what no one in his New York City neighborhood of Rockaway Beach, Queens could have foreseen -- was the devastation that ripped up 
the boardwalk, flooded homes and city streets and tore down power lines after Hurricane Sandy pummeled the waterfront area last fall.
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Read MoreTribeca 2013: Watch Out, Gore Vidal Was Mad as Hell Right to the End
April, 18, 2013 10:54 pm | Comments On #film festivals, Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia, Movies, tribeca film festivalFilm festivals are often littered with documentaries that fall into one of two camps: hard-hitting political films, or intimate character studies.
But Nicholas Wrathall’s “Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia,” which had its world premiere on Thursday night at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a hybrid of the two. Or maybe it’s a political film disguised as a character study, or vice versa.
Whatever the appropriate label may be, “Gore Vidal" zeros in on the novelist, essayist, screenwriter, media personality, social gadfly and savage political and social critic who passed away in July 2012 at the age of 86.
But for the film’s entire 89-minute running time, the...
Tribeca Opening Night: 'Mistaken for Strangers' a Goofy, Touching Rock Doc
April, 18, 2013 8:06 am | Comments On #Mistaken for Strangers, Movies, opening night, TIFF, Tribeca"Mistaken for Strangers," a touchingly hilarious documentary, made its world premiere Wednesday night at the Tribeca Film Festival, which organizers dedicated to the people of Boston.
"This movie is really a small, little low-fi thing," first-time director Tom Berninger told the audience before introducing the subject of his film, rock band the National.
The film is billed as a self-mockumentary and has touches of “This Is Spinal Tap” (Berninger even borrowed the “Spinal Tap” title font), but ...
Read MoreTribeca Prepares for Indie, Interactive Festival in Wake of Boston Bombings
April, 16, 2013 8:17 pm | Comments On #boston bombings, film festivals, jane rosenthal, Movies, robert de niro, tribeca film festivalTribeca Film Festival, borne the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, gets underway this week just two days after bombings rocked another city up the Eastern seaboard.
Tribeca’s Wednesday-night kickoff, the documentary “Mistaken for Strangers” (below), will take place at the BMCC Tribeca PAC with what the festival says is the usual amount of security.
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"Our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the bombings at the Boston Marathon,” TFF said in a statement to TheWrap on Tuesday.
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Read More‘Gangnam Style,’ Glenn Beck Win Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards
April, 02, 2013 11:30 am | Comments On #Movies, Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awardshe Tribeca Film Festival has announced that the most disruptive innovations of the past year include the innovative city planning of Manchester, England, the book “I F*cking Love Science,” Glenn Beck’s The Blaze and South Korean singer Psy’s “Gangnam Style” video.
Those disparate achievements will all be honored at the fourth annual Tribeca Disruptive Innovation Awards, a yearly show that takes place during the film festival in downtown New York and is a joint venture of TFF, the Disruptor Foundation and Harvard Business School professor Clay Cristensen, author of the book “The Innovators Dilemma.”
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Read MoreTribeca Film Institute Names New Projects for All Access Program
March, 14, 2013 12:00 pm | Comments On #Movies, tribeca instituteThe Tribeca Film Institute said on Thursday that it will fund 11 projects a part of its 10th Annual Tribeca All Access program, with a total of $150,000 in grants going to 10 different filmmakers.
Ten filmmakers with unfinished projects were culled from 560 submissions across the country, with an additional project being selected to participate through the Total Access program's partnership with the Canadian Film Centre.
All told, the projects include six narrative films and five documentaries, which will be presented during this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which takes place April 27-28.
In addition to $15,000 each, the filmmakers will receive year-round support, guidance, and...
Read More'Big Shot,' Muhammad Ali and Katarina Witt Biopics Highlight Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival
March, 12, 2013 2:09 pm | Comments On #Movies, tribeca film festivalThe Tribeca Film Festival announced this year’s Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival lineup of nine sports films, including world premieres of Kevin Connolly's "Big Shot"; biopics on boxing legend Muhammad Ali, extreme skier Shane McConkey and Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt, and a handful documentaries about women in sports directed by female filmmakers
The festival, founded in 2006, is Tribeca’s premiere showcase for independent sports films. Now in its seventh year, it will screen nine world premieres -- nearly twice as many as last year's sports slate.
Connolly returns to Tribeca after his 2007 directorial of the feature film “Gardener of Eden.” In the documentary “Big Shot,” which kicks off the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival, Connolly chronicles John Spano's...
Read MoreEmma Roberts, Julianne Moore, Paul Rudd, Neil LaBute Films Join Tribeca's 2013 Lineup
March, 06, 2013 11:00 am | Comments On #emile hirsch, Emma Roberts, John Cusack, julianne moore, Justin Long, Melissa Leo, Movies, Paul Giamatti, Sam Rockwell, tribeca film festival, Whoopi Goldberg, William H. Macy, Zac Efron
Paul Giamatti, Sam Rockwell, William H. Macy, John Cusack, Emma Roberts, Melissa Leo, Julianne Moore, Emile Hirsch and Zac Efron are among the stars in 43 premieres announced Wednesday for the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
The fest’s first group of films, comprising World Narrative and Documentary competitions and Viewpoints, were announced on Tuesday. The new announcement comprises the Spotlight, Midnight, Special Screenings and Storyscapes selections.
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