The Tribeca Film Festival this year has been…weird. Naturally, certain changes were inevitable thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, but the festival’s scrambled response resulted in an unusual system where only major, triple-A publications were given access to their complete screener…
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Tribeca 2019 Review: Watson
The work of an environmental activist is that of people who work not to become widely known, but to have their work speak for itself as a collective whole. Among such activists is Paul Watson, who is not necessarily a…
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice Tribeca Movie Review: A hollow exploration of a wondrous career
The first half of Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman’s Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice is a maddening, frustrating sit, portraying Ronstadt—the woman who would go multiplatinum several times, win ten Grammy Awards, and master numerous genres as wide-ranging…
Tribeca 2019: ‘Framing John DeLorean’ is an Experimental Take on an American Original
2019 has seen no shortage of documentaries about the rise and self-destruction of so-called American geniuses. Two of the highest profile docs so far this year were Hulu and Netflix’s dueling films about the 2017 Fyre Festival, both of which…
Tribeca 2019 Review: ‘For They Know Not What They Do’
Daniel Karslake’s extraordinary new documentary, named after the final words of Jesus, is a four-part examination of one of the most shameful and contentious parts of modern Christian theology: institutionalized homophobia. Through its 91 minutes, Karslake guides his audience through…
Tribeca 2018 Interview: Lady Monika Bacardi and Andrea Iervolino
At this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, a film called Blue Night premiered. The cast features such actors as Sarah Jessica Parker, Renee Zellweger, Taylor Kinney and Common. The film was produced by the AMBI Group which is run by Lady Monika…
Tribeca 2018 Movie Review: When She Runs
Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s When She Runs is far from an accessible film. Composed primarily of narrative negative spaces that have little if anything to do with a plot, the directors paint their cinematic canvas with lengthy static long…