Tag: Tribeca Festival
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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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‘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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