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Tribeca Docs Salute Congressional Pioneers
Delaware is known as “the First State” for its historic legacy as the first state to ratify the United States Constitution. Delawarean Sarah McBride has herself tallied some impressive firsts: the first openly transgender woman to work at the White House; the first trans speaker at the Democratic National Convention, in 2016; the first trans…
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Tribeca Festival Goes Pop with Billy Joel and Boy George
The 24th annual Tribeca Festival kicked off on June 4, 2025, with a sadly newsworthy opening-night attraction: part one of Billy Joel: And So It Goes, a two-part HBO documentary detailing the career of one of pop music’s most successful singer-songwriters. It’s newsworthy because Joel recently announced he’s suffering from Normal Pressure Hydrocephalus, a rare brain…
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Open Roads Italian Series Returns with Stories of Familia
For the 24th year, Film at Lincoln Center and the legendary Italian studio Cinecittà are presenting “Open Roads: New Italian Cinema,” a chance for New Yorkers to catch up with the latest offerings from one of the world’s greatest cinema nations. Running May 29 to June 5, the 2025 series opens with a film that…
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Remembering Robert Benton and ‘Nobody’s Fool’
Oscar-winning writer-director Robert Benton passed away on May 11, 2025, at his home in Manhattan at the age of 92. What an enviable career he had—art director for Esquire, co-writer of the undisputed classic Bonnie and Clyde, creator of the Best Picture winner Kramer vs. Kramer. I had the privilege of meeting Benton in January…
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James Foley Talks ‘Glengarry Glen Ross’
James Foley died on May 6, 2025, at the age of 71. I had the good fortune to talk with the director in 1992 about one of his highest-profile films, the star-laden adaptation of David Mamet’s play Glengarry Glen Ross. Foley’s post-Glengarry credits included the John Grisham thriller The Chamber, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades…
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Sean Baker Makes Academy Awards History with Four Oscars in One Night
Sean Baker set an Academy Awards record on Sunday, March 2, 2025, winning four personal Oscars as the writer, director, editor, and part of the producing team of his $6 million comedy-drama Anora. (Only Walt Disney had previously won four Oscars in a night, but for different films.) Throughout awards season Baker had been a…
Kevin Lally on Film
Interviews and more from the former executive editor of Film Journal International and Boxoffice Pro
- Film Appreciation
- Filmmakers
- Altman, Robert
- Baker, Sean
- Bass, Saul
- Benton, Robert
- Bigelow, Kathryn
- Coen, Joel and Ethan
- Costa-Gavras, Constantin
- Davies, Terence
- de Angelis, Edoardo
- Docter, Pete
- Duvall, Robert
- Eastwood, Clint
- Foley, James
- Freeman, Morgan
- Gondry, Michel
- Gordon, Emily V.
- Henson, Jim
- Ivory, James
- Jewison, Norman
- Johnson, Rian
- Jones, Chuck
- Kelly, Gene
- Lee, Spike
- Lemmon, Jack
- Lester, Richard
- Lord, Peter
- Lumet, Sidney
- Lynch, David
- Maddin, Guy
- Malle, Louis
- Martin, Steve
- Nair, Mira
- Nanjiani, Kumail
- Oz, Frank
- Park, Nick
- Polanski, Roman
- Ponti, Edoardo
- Reiner, Carl
- Resnais, Alain
- Russell, Ken
- Rydell, Mark
- Schoonmaker, Thelma
- Schrader, Paul
- Showalter, Michael
- Shyamalan, M. Night
- Stanton, Andrew
- Ullmann, Liv
- Van Sant, Gus
- Wajda, Andrzej
- Waters, John
- Wilder, Billy
- Woo, John
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