Tag: Tribeca Festival
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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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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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