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Tribeca 2024 Review: A FAMILY GUIDE TO HUNTING Is a Blast
Margaret Cho, Keong Sim, Kahyun Kim and Craig Newman star in a macabre horror-comedy short film, directed by Zao Wang.
Tribeca 2024 Review: BANG BANG, Still Fiery After All These Years
Tìm Blake Nelson packs a knockout punch as a pugnacious (retired) boxer in director Vincent Grashaw's stirring drama.
Tribeca 2024 Review: SLAVE PLAY. NOT A MOVIE. A PLAY. Deconstruction As an Art Form
Jeremy O. Harris directs a documentary that pulls apart his provocative stage play and then puts it back together.
Tribeca 2024 Review: PIROPOLIS, Devastating Fires Start With a Single Spark
Nicholas Medina's documentary follows a volunteer fire brigade in the port city of Valparaiso, Chile.
Tribeca 2024 Review: NEW WAVE, More Than Vietnamese-American Music
Elizabeth Ai's documentary peers deeply into the music, yes, but also the cultural and generational divides that produced it in the 1980s.
THE A-FRAME: Calvin Reeder's Sci-Fi Horror-Comedy, Exclusive Poster Debut
Tribeca Film Festival world premiere. Johnny Whitworth, Nik Dodani, Dana Namerode, and Phillip Andre Botello star. Calvin Reeder wrote and directed.
Tribeca 2023 Review: SUITABLE FLESH, Body Swapping Lovecraft With A Super Sexy Twist
H.P. Lovecraft makes his way back to the silver screen in what is perhaps the sexiest of all adaptations of his work, director Joe Lynch's Suitable Flesh. Those of us raised on Stuart Gordon's Lovecraft adaptations of the 80s and...
AGNES Teaser: The Devil Hides Where It Wants to Be Found
Nunsploitation is a much beloved subgenre of horror film, one that teases and exposes the many hypocrisies of the Catholic Church's attitude towards women. I'm glad to see a filmmaker like Mickey Reece pervoerbially tipping his toes in this particularly...
Tribeca 2019 Review: THE GASOLINE THIEVES, A Brutal And Tragic Coming-of-Age Film
The Gasoline Thieves (aka Huachicolero), the first feature-lenght film by Mexican director Edgar Nito, begins as a crime thriller, with a captivating nocturnal scene with little dialogue in which a pair of huachicoleros (one of them played by Pascacio López)...
Tribeca 2019 Interview: Director Edgar Nito On THE GASOLINE THIEVES
Fantastic cinema aficionados started to notice Edgar Nito back in 2014, when the young Mexican director made one of the segments of the horror anthology México Bárbaro. A year later, his short film Masacre en San José quickly took him to...
Tribeca 2018 Dispatch: The Many Pleasures of Horror
Perhaps not every horror fan will confess this, but we’re not always looking for masterpieces, or even movies that we’d recommend wholeheartedly. Instead, it’s all about moments and ideas, preferably ones that reflect the whole of the filmmaker’s heart and...
Tribeca 2017: Check Out the Lineups for Competition, Midnight & More!
With Springtime in New York City comes the Tribeca Film Festival. Today, the festival announced the majority of their programming for the 2017 edition, taking place April 19 - 30, with the full lineups for Narrative and Documentary Competitons --...
Tribeca 2014 Review: MISCONCEPTION Challenges What You Think You Know About Overpopulation
Jessica Yu has created some of the finest and most formally innovative documentaries of the past decade, such as In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) and Protagonist (2007). Her latest film Misconception, which recently had its world premiere at...
Tribeca 2014 Review: ICE POISON, A Mesmerizing, Stark Depiction of Drugs and Poverty in Burma
Grinding poverty and severely restricted life and economic choices push two impoverished denizens of Myanmar into drug dealing, and using, with predictably dire consequences in Midi Z's strong, stylistically assured third feature Ice Poison. As in his previous features Return...
Tribeca 2014 Review: LAND HO! Takes Us On An Immensely Charming Icelandic Road Trip
The wonderfully freewheeling, peripatetic road movie Land Ho!, spanning the vast, rich Icelandic landscape, marks the first collaboration between two talented independent filmmakers: Martha Stephens (Passenger Pigeons, Pilgrim Song) and Aaron Katz (Dance Party USA, Quiet City, Cold Weather). Together, they...
Tribeca 2014 Review: TIME IS ILLMATIC, An Illuminating Look Back at the Creation of a Hip-Hop Classic
This year's Tribeca Film Festival got off to a rousing start with the screening (and accompanying concert by its subject) of Time is Illmatic, a documentary by multimedia artist One9 about the making of Nas' immensely influential 1994 debut album...
Tribeca 2014 Interview: MANOS SUCIAS Director and DP Share Stories from Colombia
With two LED panels, one Canon C300 and a crew of no more than a dozen people including locals, co-writer/director Joseph Wladyka and co-writer/cinematographer Alan Blanco went to Buenaventura, Colombia - a heavily narco-trafficked country - to film Manos Sucias...
Tribeca 2014 Interview: Noah Buschel's GLASS CHIN
As the music starts and the first scene opens up in Noah Buschel's Glass Chin, you may think you're about to watch the newest version of Rocky what with the running boxer at dawn, dramatic theme score and all. The story,...
Tribeca 2014: ScreenAnarchy Raises The Curtain With 17 Must-Sees
Spring has most certainly arrived in The Big Apple (finally), which means so has the Tribeca Film Festival. Now in its 13th year, the fest kicks off tonight with Time Is Illmatic, multimedia artist One9's documentary on Nas' landmark album...
Tribeca 2013: ScreenAnarchy Picks 17 Can't Miss Titles
Time to raise that curtain up! The Tribeca Film Fest starts tonight! We've already brought you plenty of previews with our looks at the Galas and Midnighters, the Documentary and Narrative Competitions, the Special Screenings and Shorts, and the...
