Cary Grant's Greatest Role
No matter the movie, the debonair Cary Grant always starred as himself. Discover his unmatched charm in a monthlong retrospective at BAMcinematek. Get ready to swoon.
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The Red Riding Trilogy
This British series is a new kind of trilogy—3 directors for 3 films. Julian Jarrold (Brideshead Revisited) and James Marsh (Man on Wire) talk about this unique working experience. Catch it on DVD today!
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Fueling the Audience's Mistrust: The White Ribbon
Austrian provocateur Michael Haneke talks about his chilling Palme d'Or winner, which details the origins of fascism and evil in a small German village.
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Five For The Ages:<br>Orson Welles Stories
Celebrate Orson Welles and his legends (on display now in Me and Orson Welles and Film Forum's screening of The Third Man) with a list of his top five shenanigans. (Did we include The War of the Worlds? Read on!)
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Police, Adjective: Deadpan Romanian Morals
Corneliu Porumboiu, whose new film Police, Adjective is the Romanian entry in the Best Foreign Film race and a festival favorite (New York, Cannes, Toronto), talks about his fascination with moral complexity, language and, yes, the dictionary.
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Defamation: Let the Debate Continue
After sparking intense debate at film festivals around the world (including TFF 2009), Yoav Shamir's controversial documentary about anti-Semitism will reach everyday audiences this week.
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Lars von Trier is "The Best Director in the World"
Chaos reigns! To promote his new provocation Antichrist, Lars von Trier has been making the festival rounds as only a misogynist/genius/performance artist should. We dissect the meta-hilarity.
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Dancing in the Aisles with Soul Power
In Jeff Levy-Hinte's documentary, you are in the front row for Zaire '74, the music festival (alongside Ali/Foreman's legendary Rumble in the Jungle), that brought together James Brown, Bill Withers, Celia Cruz, B.B. King, and a host of talents for a funky good time.
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Tribeca Talks: Passing Strange
Saturday night's screening of Passing Strange was followed by a panel discussion featuring director Spike Lee and co-creators Stew and Heidi Rodewald. How did the musical translate from stage to screen?
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Tribeca Talks: The Future of the Independents
With snappy moderator David Carr leading the charge, Friday's panel on the future of independent filmmaking proved to be an insightful, scary, and fascinating affair.
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Tribeca Talks: The Girlfriend Experience
At last night's panel discussion following The Girlfriend Experience, director Steven Soderbergh and star Sasha Grey told us how to capture a collapsing economy on film.
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Behind the Screens: The Burning Season
Monday night's panel discussion after The Burning Season was raucous, with two hecklers throwing their two cents in. The discussion itself was quite informative. Read on to find out what happened.
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Tribeca Talks: <br>Inherit the Wind
The panel discussion following Inherit the Wind Saturday afternoon proved to be extremely informative and lively, with a highly qualified panel discussing the contemporary debate between evolution and creationism.
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Faces of the Festival:<br>Divya Chhabra
The Tribeca Film Festival would be an impossibility without the thousands of volunteers who help us out. Today, we run a special Faces of the Festival with one of our youngest volunteers, Divya Chhabra.
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Pen to Paper:<br>Writing Big and Small
Film critic Glen Kenny sat down with The Girlfriend Experience scribes Brian Koppelman and David Levien to talk about writing for large and small-budget films, in the final Pen to Paper discussion at Barnes & Noble Union Square.
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As Good as the Book Panelists Endorse Poetic License
Yesterday at the Barnes & Noble in Union Square, the Tribeca Talks series kicked off with the panel discussion As Good as the Book? What did scribes Caroline Bottaro, Dave Callaham, and Julian Kemp have to say about the process of adaptation?
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ESPN Sports Doc Panel: A Discussion of Artistry
ESPN's panel discussion yesterday featured some of the biggest names in sports and documentary filmmaking. Find out what Albert Maysles, Barry Levinson, Barbara Kopple and Dan Klores had to say about their cinematic intersections with the world of sports.
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Coming Out: LGBT Films at TFF 2009
Probing disparate realms—from politics to adoption, and everywhere in between—this is a guide to this year's LGBT-themed works.
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Directors and Bios and Guns, Oh My!
Want to know more about the brains behind the delightful '09 Festival films? Check out these Director Video Bios and get up close and personal with these artists' lives.
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Hunger Strike
Steve McQueen's masterpiece is the most audacious film of the year. Find out why this peek into a prison during The Troubles in Northern Ireland is a must see.
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