Tag: Tribeca Festival
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Tribeca Fest Spotlights Jayne Mansfield, Barbara Walters—and an Amazonian Activist
Mariska Hargitay has had a remarkable TV run as the Emmy-winning star of “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” over a record-breaking 26 seasons. Many of the show’s younger fans may not know that she’s the daughter of a movie icon, the buxom 1950s sex symbol Jayne Mansfield. Hargitay was only three years old when…
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Tribeca Fest Premieres Dark Dramas ‘Inside’ and ‘Dragonfly’
I’m certain there are some feel-good films at the Tribeca Festival—The Best You Can with Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, and She Dances with Steve Zahn and his daughter Audrey both look promising—but somehow I’ve wound up watching two undeniable feel-bad films. Each may be a hard sell, but they’re worth checking out for their deft performances. Inside,…
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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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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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