Making a Scene: The Brooklyn Artists Ball Honors Its Own

For its third-annual Brooklyn Artists Ball, which took place last Wednesday, The Brooklyn Museum procured a decidedly self-referential theme to celebrate the influence and creativity of Brooklyn artists, who in the...

Tribeca Reviews: ‘Oxyana’ Dives to the Very Depths of Drug Abuse

Warning: do not read this review close to bedtime. If you do, it may be difficult to sleep soundly. Yet disheartening as it is, it is nowhere near as heartbreaking as the subject matter of Sean Dunne’s feature...

Tribeca Reviews: The English Teacher Can Flunk Too

We start with a typically small town high school in Kingston, PA, with a typically rowdy student body roaming the hallowed halls. A typically proper 45-year-old English teacher is seen locking up her classroom for...

The Luckiest Gal & the Luckiest Guy in the World: An Interview with Filmmaker Ryan White

It was 1961. And the world was about to be spun wildly forward on its axis, not by the iron fists of Cold War strategists but by the nimble typing fingers and congeniality of one Freda Kelly.

Tribeca Talks — Adolescence’s Coming of Age Story: Matt Wolf, Jon Savage and Jason Schwartzman on Their New Documentary ‘Teenage’

Tribeca Reviews: Elizabeth Bishop, the Poet Who Reached for the Moon

In 1951, the American poet Elizabeth Bishop made a trip to Brazil at a college friend’s invitation. As fate would have it, that same friend was living “discreetly” with the architect Lota de Macedo Soares, best...

Tribeca Talks — Richard vs. His Demons: In Conversation with Lenny Abrahamson and Jack Reynor on Their New Film ‘What Richard Did’

Richard (Jack Reynor) was on top of the world — 18-years-old, handsome, charming, and chivalrous, a posse of devoted friends and rugby mates by his side, he leisurely passes the summer before university amid a...

Tribeca Reviews — ‘Elaine Stritch’: A Loveable Menace

At the beginning of Chiemi Karasawa’s no-holds-barred documentary, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a Spotlight entry at the Tribeca Film Festival, the 87-year-old star itemizes what she’s got to feel good about. “I...

Tribeca Talks: ‘Bending Steel’ Trio on Flexing Their Creative Muscles and Finding Themselves through Their Unique Film

Mention the strongman profession in everyday conversation and you are bound to be on the receiving end of a few perplexed looks and shoulder shrugs. And such responses wouldn’t be totally unjust. In fact, the...

Tribeca Talks — ‘Raw Herring’: A Look into Dutch Tradition and Culture

Would you eat raw herring if offered? Many people might cringe at the very mention of it, finding it distasteful or unappetizing, but to the people of Holland it is tradition and something of a delicacy. Sprinkling...