Category: Film Appreciation
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‘Just Look Up,’ ‘House of Criticism’ and More Tribeca Highlights
One of the most provocative documentaries at this year’s Tribeca Festival is Just Look Up, a very intimate portrait of the youthful activist group Climate Defiance and its eccentric founder and executive director, Michael Greenberg. In the tradition of the disruptive AIDS organization ACT UP, the members of Climate Defiance justifiably view the climate crisis as…
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Documentary Highlights at the Tribeca Festival
Every year at the Tribeca Fest, I gravitate toward their documentary offerings. (To quote Forrest Gump, when it comes to their narrative selections, you never know what you’re going to get.) I’ve already written about four of their New York-oriented docs. Here are four more documentaries that were well worth my time. Hollywood Does Abortion begins…
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Tribeca Documentaries Shine a Light on New York
The Tribeca Festival was created in 2002 by Robert De Niro and his business partner Jane Rosenthal with the intention of reinvigorating the area of Manhattan impacted by the destruction of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. So it’s no surprise that the 25th edition of the festival would include a new documentary…
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Tribeca Festival Celebrates 25th Anniversary with Earth, Wind & Fire
The Tribeca Festival is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and it always strives to make opening night an event. Often, that strategy involves programming a music documentary combined with a live performance. I’ll never forget the night in 2017 when Tribeca premiered a doc about legendary music executive Clive Davis at Radio City Music Hall, with…
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Lincoln Center’s ‘Open Roads’ Series Celebrates Roberto Rossellini
It’s the 25th anniversary of “Open Roads,” Film at Lincoln Center’s annual festival of new films from Italy. The 14 New York premieres in the series include two biopics and a documentary about one of Italy’s most renowned directors. The fest coincides with the 120th birthday of Roberto Rossellini (1906-1977), a pioneer of Italy’s Neorealism…
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Jewish Film Festival Salutes Charles Grodin, Rebel with a Cause
Each fall’s New York Film Festival is always a big highlight of the year, but Film at Lincoln Center’s other annual events are also a welcome opportunity to experience new international films. Coming up later this year are “New Directors/New Films,” “Rendez-Vous with French Cinema” and “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema.” And every January brings…
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