Festival Q&As
Q&A: Soundtrack for a Revolution
You can catch the Danny Glover-produced Soundtrack for a Revolution (TFF '09) at the IFC Center's Docuweeks 2009. Get fired up for a revolutionary work about civil rights and freedom songs with our exclusive video featuring The Roots and an interview with director Dan Sturman.
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Q&A: Racing Dreams
Marshall Curry returned to Tribeca this year with Racing Dreams, the enormously entertaining story of three kids in training for NASCAR. (These are not the go-karts you grew up on.) Racing Dreams will be at IFC Center this week as part of DocuWeeks 2009. Win tickets!
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Q&A: Which Way Home
Rebecca Cammisa tells a moving story about Latin American migrant children traveling alone through Mexico in her documentary Which Way Home.
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Q&A: Seven Minutes in Heaven
Israeli actress Reymonde Amsellem gives a memorable performance as a survivor of a Jerusalem bombing in Seven Minutes in Heaven.
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Q&A: Variety
Bette Gordon's 1984 Variety is a fascinating look at women, pornography, and a seedy New York that's long gone.
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Discover: In the Loop
A torrent of fast and furious words and an excellent primer in how to swear with great style, the wicked, coal-black satire of Armando Iannucci's flick is hilarious and terrifying.
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Q&A: Soul Power
At Thursday night's screening of Soul Power, the entire audience came down with a bad case of funk. Check out director Jeff Levy-Hinte's thoughts on the project.
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Q&A: Rachel
A thoughtful and tragically well-timed documentary by Simone Bitton examines both sides of the story surrounding the death of Rachel Corrie, the 22-year-old American peace activist.
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Q&A: The Fish Child
Lucía Puenzo's moody lesbian schoolgirl noir is a story of delicate love, legends, and survivors. The director explains how to adapt your own novel to the big screen. (Step 1: lose the narration by the dog.)
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Q&A:
About Elly
Deceit and tragedy abound when friends take a seaside mini-break in Asghar Farhadi's mysterious and lush About Elly. Travel to the Caspian Sea in this engrossing who-done-it. See About Elly today!
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Q&A: All About Actresses
Maïwenn Le Besco is back with All About Actresses, a film she wrote, directed and performed in. Check out what this triple threat had to say about her musical mockumentary with the likes of Charlotte Rampling playing "herself."
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Q&A: Love the Beast
Eric Bana and his 1974 Ford XB Falcon Coupe: a man-and-his-car love story, with emotional twists and turns and the existential angst revved high enough to require therapy from Dr. Phil McGraw.
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Q&A: My Dear Enemy
An absolutely delightful romantic comedy for an economically depressed age, Lee Yoon-Ki's flick is deadpan and hilarious. Catch it now before (an inevitable) American remake!
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Q&A: Team Qatar
How often do you hear "Show us your socks!" called out at a film festival Q&A? Check out Team Qatar—Liz Mermin's spirited doc about teens from the Arab country getting a crash course in formal debating—and you'll get the joke.
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Q&A: Departures
Departures, the surprise Best Foreign Film Oscar winner from February, had its U.S. premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival in April. Check out what the director and star have to say about their film, which hits American theaters this weekend.
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Q&A: Still Walking
Tuesday night's screening of Still Walking was a refined and charming affair. Read about what director Hirokazu Kore-Eda had to say about his film.
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Q&A: Easy Virtue
In Easy Virtue, director Stephan Elliott adapts Noel Coward with a starry cast including Kristin Scott Thomas, Jessica Biel, and Colin Firth.
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Q&A: The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia
The buzzed-about documentary inspires a range of emotions: from sadness to shock to laughter to I-love-Johnny Knoxville. Don't miss it.
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Q&A: Blank City
Saturday night's world premiere of Blank City turned into a class reunion of sorts for all the artists and icons from the No Wave and Cinema of Transgression film movements that the documentary explores.
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Q&A:
Midgets Vs. Mascots
The audience stayed to the end of the Midgets Vs. Mascots at Saturday's world premiere. Director Ron Carlson has the photo to prove it. See MVM today!
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Q&A: An Englishman in New York
An all-star cast was on hand for the Q&A following Richard Laxton's An Englishman in New York. Check out what Laxton, star John Hurt, and the rest of the gang had to say about the new pic.
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Q&A: Wonderful World
First-time director Josh Goldin and star Matthew Broderick depict a lovable misanthrope in Wonderful World, a heartwarming film also starring Michael K. Williams and Sanaa Lathan.
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Q&A: Playground
Libby Spears, backed by George Clooney and Steven Soderbergh and an incredible soundtrack, exposes the one issue no one wants to talk about: the child sex trade right here in America.
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Q&A: Con Artist
Mark Kostabi was an outrageous character in the '80s New York art scene, so we had high hopes going into Michael Sládek’s documentary about him. We weren’t disappointed.
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Q&A: Entre nos
There were plenty of people choked up after Saturday’s world premiere of Entre nos, not the least of whom was one of the directors, Paola Mendoza, whose upbringing inspired the emotional story.
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Q&A: Original
In Original, attractive Scandinavians embark on a wacky journey of self-discovery that includes stops at both strip clubs and Ikea.
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Q&A: Outrage
Find out what drives the eloquent anger of director Kirby Dick during the first public screening of this sure-to-be-talked-about film.
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Q&A: Fear Me Not
An unsettling psychological thriller (and a wonderful piece of real-estate porn), Fear Me Not teaches you that the drugs do work. Maybe.
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Q&A: Serious Moonlight
Director Cheryl Hines and her collaborators tell the crowd that no fishes were killed during the making of Serious Moonlight.
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Q&A: Garapa
José Padilha's new documentary Garapa follows three families in its sobering look at the hunger crisis in Brazil. With any luck, it will make a difference.
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Q&A: Kobe Doin' Work
NBA superstar Kobe Bryant and director Spike Lee are at the top of their game in Kobe Doin' Work, part of the 2009 Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival.
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Q&A: Queen to Play
Kevin Kline and French star Sandrine Bonnaire square off in Corsica in Caroline Bottaro's Queen to Play. Checkmate.
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Q&A: Tell Tale
Michael Cuesta summons the ghost of Edgar Allan Poe in his new thriller, Tell Tale, starring the dreamy Josh Lucas as an adoring father-turned-ticking time bomb.
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Q&A: North
We’ll bet more than a few people looking for an extreme escape from the city booked tickets to rural Norway after Friday night’s premiere of the witty, gorgeously shot North. See North today!
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Q&A: Don McKay
Oscar nominees Thomas Haden Church, Melissa Leo, and Elisabeth Shue keep the audience guessing in the romantic thriller Don McKay, the directorial debut of Jake Goldberger.
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Q&A: Black Dynamite
Last night's screening of Black Dynamite was an enormous hit, with the audience in stitches all the way through. Read about the Q&A afterwards with director Scott Sanders and stars and co-writers Michael Jai White and Byron Minns.
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Q&A: The Eclipse
Renowned playwright Conor McPherson makes his debut as a filmmaker with this spooky tale of haunted writers-by-the-sea. We hear from the filmmaker and his stars, Ciarán Hinds and Aidan Quinn.
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Q&A: The Exploding Girl
Audiences were treated to an intimate Q&A following last night's premiere of The Exploding Girl. Find out what director Bradley Rust Gray had to say about his vision of New York, working with actors, and editing with his wife.
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Q&A: Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench
Last night's screening started with a trumpet solo by star Jason Palmer, and it ended with a trumpet solo writ large on-screen by Palmer. We take you into the Q&A session with director Damien Chazelle and his collaborators.
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Q&A: Stay Cool
The Polish Brothers retro back to the '80s in this romantic comedy romp that features the return of Winona Ryder.
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Q&A: The Lost Son of Havana
Last night's screening of The Lost Son of Havana was followed by an emotional and moving Q&A featuring the subject of the film, former MLB pitching star Luis Tiant.
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