Peacock recently acquired the U.S. rights to the sports documentary “We Dare to Dream.” The movie, which chronicles the refugee Olympic team at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 2021, debuted on the streamer this past Friday, Dec. 1, according to Variety. The acquisition comes after the 93-minute feature had its world premiere in June…
If there is something that isn’t much in the way of new news for a long time; too many movies are delving into some very familiar territory. It’s been dominating the narrative selections so far at the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. That doesn’t have to be a bad thing. When a writer/director can take a…
Katja Gauriloff, the award-winning film director from Finland, presents at the Tribeca Film Festival another of her influential films: Je’vida. The beautifully-shot, black and white, picture is a journey of acceptance, discovery and reconciliation. The narrative opens up with an aunt (Lida) and her niece (Sanna) who have never met before and drive to Lapland…
History has defined the hierarchy of power through estates. The French Revolution dismantled the archetypical tryptic of the First (clergy), Second (aristocracy) and Third (commoners) estates of the realm. The modern era brought the advent of a new force: the Fourth Estate, characterised by the mass media and its explicit capacity of advocacy and implicit…
We Might As Well Be Dead is the epitome of fear as a self-reproducing system that dominates the political discourse. This is the feature debut directed by Russian-German Natalia Sinelnikova, that was presented at the 72nd Berlin Film Festival and at the 21st Tribeca Film Festival. Forty year old Anna Wilczynska (Ioana Iacob) lives with…
Narrated by Willem Dafoe, The Wild One is an introspective documentary that reconstructs the personal and professional life of Jack Garfein: Holocaust survivor, Actors Studio co-founder, controversial stage and screen director. Award-nominated director and producer Tessa Louise-Salomé skilfully plays with old footage. She creates chimerical effects through black and white moving pictures that come from…
Cinematic polymath Cooper Raiff (director, writer, actor, producer), is currently part of Variety’s List Of New Directors To Watch In 2022. After his breakout film S#!%house — that was the recipient of the 2020 SXSW Film Festival Grand Jury Prize for Best Narrative Film — he returns with another compassionate cross-section of contemporary society. Raiff’s…
The Tribeca Festival announced today in a press release that Halftime, a “new Netflix documentary film by director Amanda Micheli that follows global superstar Jennifer Lopez,” will kick off its 2022 edition by making its world premiere on Wednesday, June 8th at the United Palace in Washington Heights. Lopez posted the news to Instagram, teasing…
The Midnight section of the Tribeca Film Festival programs “the best in horror, sci-fi, and cult cinema for the late-night crowd.” That’s certainly a good descriptor for Ultrasound, which finds a man in way over his head after his car breaks down in the middle of nowhere. He doesn’t even begin to understand what’s happening,…
Jena Malone has been acting since she was twelve years old, earning accolades for her first performance in the TV movie Bastard Out of Carolina in 1996. Now, two and a half decades later, she’s on the other side, playing the adult and mother opposite talented young actors, in the Tribeca drama Lorelei, which was…
Among the many great films premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival is The Justice of Bunny King, the feature film debut from New Zealand director Gaysorn Thavat. Essie Davis (The Babadook) stars Bunny King, as a woman fighting desperately to get her children back from foster care who also looks out for her niece…
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