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Back to ‘The Village’ with M. Night Shyamalan
M. Night Shyamalan is getting some of the best reviews of his career with his new thriller, Trap. The writer-director broke through in a big way in 1999 with his third feature, the Oscar-nominated smash The Sixth Sense. Since then, he’s had hits and notorious flops, but he’s kept generating original stories with often startling twists. Twenty…
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Music of All Kinds Reigns at the Tribeca Festival
Music always plays a huge role at the Tribeca Festival, in the form of music-oriented documentaries and special post-film performances. Here’s a look at four new films that run the gamut from country to jazz, rock to Broadway. Francis Whately’s Rebel Country begins with the 2019 arrival of Lil Nas X’s “Old Town Road,” in which the…
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Tribeca Docs ‘Checkpoint Zoo’ and ‘Antidote’ Show Two Sides of Putin’s Evil Agenda
Two documentaries at the Tribeca Fest show different sides of the evil that Vladimir Putin has unleashed upon the world—one specifically about a singular consequence of his brutal attack on the second-largest city in Ukraine, Kharkiv; the other more generally about his campaign of lethal vengeance against his enemies. Each is essential viewing in these troubling…
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‘Firebrand’ Leads the Narrative Slate at Tribeca Festival
Debuting at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival, Firebrand has made the Tribeca Festival its final stop before opening in theaters on June 14. A distinct departure for Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz, this is the latest in a long line of cinema portrayals of the notorious King Henry VIII of England. Onetime matinee idol Jude Law is surprisingly…
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Tribeca’s Doc Lineup Includes Liz Taylor’s Lost Tapes and a Cold Case Reopened
The Tribeca Festival, launched after the September 11 attack by Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal to revitalize the neighborhood, continues to thrive in its 23rd year. With 114 feature films screening from June 5-16, it’s impossible to catch everything, but I’ve had relatively good luck with the selections I’ve chosen so far. The festival…
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Edoardo Ponti Celebrates the First NYC Retrospective Devoted to His Legendary Mother, Sophia Loren
It’s shocking but apparently true: Film at Lincoln Center is currently presenting the first-ever New York City retrospective of one of the greatest movie stars in history, Sophia Loren. Over the course of her seven-decade career, the native of Naples enjoyed success in both Italy and Hollywood, in both comedies and dramas, co-starring with the…
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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