Tribeca Film Festival

Snap Review – Point Blank

An innocent male nurse is thrown into a violent gunfight across Paris as he tries to rescue his very pregnant wife from the hands of criminals (or so he thinks).

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on July 26, 2011

Snap review of ‘New York Says Thank You’

The true story of a group of New Yorkers inspired by 9/11 who travel the country helping others who suffered tragedy.

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on June 3, 2011

Tribeca Film Festival Teams Up With ESPN

Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival On Demand will run through August 25th showcasing various independent sports films.

Topics : Independent Movie, Movie News, Sports Movies, Tribeca Film Festival 2011
Posted by : Rande Iaboni on June 1, 2011

Tribeca Film acquires rights to indie hit Turkey Bowl

Tribeca Film acquires rights to indie hit Turkey Bowl – The film will be available nationwide on VOD in late June.

Topics : Movie News
Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on May 9, 2011

Tribeca Summary – Our List

Our summary of films to look for at Tribeca with ratings and linked reviews

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 30, 2011

Tribeca Review – The Bleeding House

While ‘The Bleeding House’ opens somewhat promising, it soon becomes a complete mess and delivers predictable twists while failing to produce any actual scares.

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Posted by : Rande Iaboni on April 29, 2011

Tribeca Review + Red Carpet – The Bang Bang Club

The Bang Bang Club is a story for the ages but a film that will always be the highly touted top prospect that never developed into the all-star you wanted him to be.

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 22, 2011

Tribeca Prep – New York Says Thank You

In the wake of disaster, this is the story of how one city says thank you

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 15, 2011

Tribeca Review – Flowers of Evil

Flowers of Evil is a love story between very different people who are caught in the conflict of Iranian political turmoil.

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 11, 2011

TFF Pre-Festival Coverage: PATANG (THE KITE)

PATANG (THE KITE) is not necessarily worth seeing at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival. It was quite mundane… nothing special or engaging, at least in the first 30 minutes, which was all I could stand on such a beautiful Saturday afternoon.

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Posted by : Ron Ashley on April 2, 2011

Tribeca Film Festival showing titles in over 40 million Homes

Experience the TFF without moving from the couch. Here is a list of titles to see.

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on March 29, 2011

Tribeca Free Panel Series & Other Free Events

Are you in the NYC area – check this out for free Tribeca events.

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on March 24, 2011

Experience the Tribeca Film Festival Online

New avenues to experience TFF

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on March 21, 2011

Tribeca and Miramax Announce Deal

TRIBECA FILM AND MIRAMAX ANNOUNCE DISTRIBUTION DEAL FOR LAST NIGHT STARRING KEIRA KNIGHTLEY, SAM WORTHINGTON,

Topics : Movie Business
Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on February 4, 2011

Red Carpet of Freakonomics

DUE TO VIDEO IT DIFFICULTIES – WE ARE REPOSTING THIS. CHECK OUT THE VIDEO BELOW Last Friday, April 30th, 2010, the Tribeca Film Festival ended its 12 day event with the premiere of Freakonomics, a film adapted from the incredibly popular correlation/causality book written by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner. Yes people, this book is [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on May 9, 2010

Tribeca Review – My Trip To Al-Qaeda

Alex Gibney (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room, Taxi to the Dark Side), perhaps the greatest documentarian of our time, directs this near perfect documentary, My Trip To Al-Qaeda, an exploration behind terrorism.  Gibney collaborates here with Lawrence Wright, the Pulitzer Prize winner, to bring Wright’s play to the big screen.  Even better, My [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on May 2, 2010

Tribeca Review – Earth Made of Glass

Our good friend Ron Ashley is back at it again as he had the chance to catch the Deborah Scranton directed documentary “Earth Made of Glass” at this years Tribeca Film Festival.   This will be documentary time on TheMovieBanter as we will soon put up a review of Alex Gibney’s (Enron: The Smartest Guys [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 30, 2010

Tribeca Review – Nice Guy Johnny

The 2010 Edward Burns project is entitled Nice Guy Johnny.  It has been such a hit at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival that additional screenings have been added to the schedule.  Burns wrote and directed the movie, and he also is one of the film’s stars. Burns’ co-star is Matt Bush (Adventureland), who actually plays [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 28, 2010

Tribeca Special – The Two Escobars (Red Carpet and Review)

Interview with Jeff Zimbalist, writer and director of The Two Escobars. See below the video for the full review. Jeff and Michael Zimbalist tell the engaging story of Pablo and Andres Escobar and their impact on Colombia in the mid 1990′s.  I had the pleasure of attending the premiere of the film and was also [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 25, 2010

Tribeca Special – Beware The Gonzo (Red Carpet & Review)

Red Carpet Footage from the premiere of Beware the Gonzo Interviews with – Jesse McCartney, Brian Goluboff (Writer/Director), Steve Kaplan, James Urbaniak Interview with – Judah Friedlander Guest Review by Ron Ashley I was fortunate enough to attend last night’s world premiere of BEWARE THE GONZO, written and directed by Bryan Goluboff, at the 2010 [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 23, 2010

Tribeca Review – Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll

Andy Serkis (Gollum from Lord of the Rings) plays the British punk rocker Ian Dury in the Matt Whitecross directed film, “Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll” (“SDRR”).  SDRR is a very stylistic film that shows the wild ride of ups and downs that Dury faced on the road to taking his band, The [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 23, 2010

2010 Tribeca Guide – 10 Movies to See

For our NY metropolitan area fans, we hope you get a chance to make it out to the Tribeca Film Festival.  For all other fans, there is an online library for you to watch the films.  Please go to tribecafilmfest.com for more information about ticket info, blurbs on all the films, and scheduling.  Here are [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 21, 2010

Tribeca Review – The Infidel

Mahmud Nasir considers himself a true Muslim. He may not pray 5 times a day towards Mecca, but in his heart Allah lives. His son wants to marry this girl, who’s stepfather is an Islamic extremist. So Mahmud’s son needs his father to be convincingly Muslim so that he can get his soon-to-be wife’s stepfather’s [...]

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Posted by : Matt Rosenberg on April 11, 2010