Plus: exciting news for those looking to get judged by Werner Herzog.
Wow, that was sudden: last night’s Gen Art screening of Cook County will be the Clearview Chelsea West’s last show as a commercial movie theater. The School of Visual Arts has bought the site, and after several months of renovation, the theater will be reopened as “a new repertory/special event venue,” with tie-ins planned with [...]
Eugene Hernandez at indieWIRE is asking “filmmakers, critics, publicists and other festival organizers” to weigh in on a new rule instituted by the Tribeca Film Festival press office. Here’s the text, as it appears on the Festival’s credential application:
“Embargo” regulation for world premieres
Reviews of films that celebrate their world premiere at the Festival may [...]
The “scaled down” Tribeca Film Festival released yet another addition to their lineup. Plus: If Patrick Swayze can’t go to Austria, Uwe Boll will bring Patrick Swayze to the world!
One more batch of meaningless equivalencies: Michael Haneke is JUST like Joe Trippi!
We take this brief break from our wall-to-wall SXSW coverage to link to the competition line-up for 2008 Tribeca Film Festival, currently posted at indieWIRE. As you know, Baby Mama will open the festival; according to The Reeler, Speed Racer will close it. Here’s a look at a few titles of interest in between:
Shane Meadows’ [...]
I got a press release about this yesterday, but in the pre-SXSW rush, I didn’t have time to post it. Baby Mama, a comedy starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, will open the Tribeca Film Festival. Is this a bad sign for Tina Fey’s highly-anticipated (by Karina, at least) movie star debut, considering that [...]
February 4, 2008 – 10:31 am
We tried to make Tribeca go to rehab, and it totally went. And that’s a good thing…right?
November 2, 2007 – 10:23 am
Lower Manhattan’s notoriously unwieldy upstart is looking to sell more by showing less.
Last night the Tribeca Film Festival announced the winners of their various jury prizes, and you know what that means: it’s time to take another look at the Tribeca 2007 Buzz-O-Meter, my oh-so scientific analysis of the pre-Fest attention derby. Here’s a rundown of which films lived up to the buzz, which films didn’t, [...]
