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Tribeca Film Festival Winners Announced
The Tribeca Film Festival still has a couple more days left, but earlier today they announced the winners of the competition categories. The big winner was The Rocket, a film about a displaced 10-year-old Laotion boy who, while searching for a new home with his father and grandmother, stumbles upon
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Neil LaBute on Some Velvet Morning, French New Wave, and Wicker Man
Neil LaBute's Some Velvet Morning premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, returning the writer-director to his more independent, dialogue-driven roots after a string of studio movies, including the notoriously bad Wicker Man remake, left fans scratching their heads. Velvet stars Stanley Tucci as Fred, a married man who
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Justin Long Takes Our Romantic-Comedy Quiz and Also Rants About Expensive Weddings
Justin Long is funny. He's charming. He was totally right about Macs. And when we asked him to take our rom-com quiz in light of his own romantic comedy, A Case of You, playing at the Tribeca Film Festival this week, he gamely agreed. We later learned that he maybe didn't know exactly
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Heineken Supports the Filmmakers—and the Fans
From greenlight to greenscreen to Green Room Sessions, the Tribeca Film Festival and Heineken celebrate the craft of filmmaking with unfiltered access to cast and crew. Meet the directors, producers, and even the communities who inspired the stories at Heineken’s exclusive Green Room Sessions. Bring your ticket stub to see
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Baz Luhrmann on Gatsby and Wisdom From Jay-Z and Leonardo DiCaprio
Baz Luhrmann was a surprise guest of sorts at Vanity Fair's party Tuesday night to kick off the Tribeca Film Festival: His long-delayed Great Gatsby, in theaters May 10, is not one of the films in the festival. Luckily, that didn't stop the director from fielding a few questions about
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18 Movies to See at the Tribeca Film Festival
After more than a decade, we may have finally figured out the Tribeca Film Festival. True, it may not be the go-to fest for high-profile American indie narratives, à la Sundance — with some very notable exceptions — or a forum for giving the first look at Oscar hopefuls, like Toronto,
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Mistaken for Strangers Trailer: The National! On Tour! (And Melancholy!)
With Mistaken for Strangers, the National documentary set to premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival later this week, the band released the first trailer. It appears to be less a straight documentary about the band and more an unusual documentary about their lead singer's brother, Tom Berninger, who had decided to
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Alex Karpovsky on Rubberneck, Girls, and Pig-Petting
Before he was Girls' Ray, or "the guy who sleeps next to Lena Dunham" in Tiny Furniture, Alex Karpovsky was writing, directing, and acting in independent films all his own. This week, Tribeca Films releases two of Karpovsky's most recent works: Red Flag, a road-trip comedy starring Karpovsky as himself,
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Jay-Z Does Not Return Robert DeNiro’s Calls
Even though he promised DeNiro that he would do a song for the Tribeca Film Festival, and poor Bob called Jay six times to follow-up. So DeNiro took the obvious course of action, which was to confront Hov at Leonardo DiCaprio's birthday party and tell him off for being "disrespectful."
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Danny Strong, David O. Russell Team for CBS Pilot
Recount and Game Change screenwriter Danny Strong has sold a pilot to CBS. David O. Russell is on board to direct the pilot — his first TV gig — and Robert De Niro's production company Tribeca films will produce the show. (Don't get too excited about the De Niro connection: Tribeca
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See the Exclusive Poster for Morgan Spurlock’s Mansome
Are we currently in the grips of a boom in male vanity? Morgan Spurlock thinks so, and in his new documentary, Mansome (which recently premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival), he proves his point in several different ways: He sends Jason Bateman and Will Arnett to get pampered at the
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Cuban Actors Portraying Would-Be Defectors in New Film Una Noche Defect For Real
New coming-of-age film Una Noche tells the story of three Cuban teenagers risking the oversea journey from their native country to Miami in search of the ol' American Dream. It won three top awards at this year's Tribeca Film Festival for cinematography, direction (in the new narrative direction category), and acting
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Alex Karpovsky On His Two Tribeca Films, The Coen Brothers, and Girls
Even if you don’t know Alex Karpovsky by name, chances are you've seen his work. He’s an insanely prolific actor who stars in two movies at Tribeca — one of which, Rubberneck, he wrote and directed — and can also be seen as the arrogant Ray Ploshansky on HBO’s Girls.
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Chris Colfer on Struck By Lightning, His Future on Glee, and Wanting the Rights to Candy Land
Chris Colfer is known as an actor — he won a Golden Globe for his portrayal of Kurt on Glee — but this Tribeca Film Festival, he's making his debut as a writer as well. His first film, Struck by Lightning, premiered over the weekend with eager Harry Potter star
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Crispin Glover on Freak Deaky, His Castle, and ‘Corporate Television’
One of the acquisition titles at Tribeca, the film adaptation of Elmore Leonard's novel Freaky Deaky, was set to star William H. Macy, Brendan Fraser, and Matt Dillon. But most of the cast was replaced at the eleventh hour by Crispin Glover, Christian Slater, and Billy Burke, who play the
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John Slattery Didn’t Quit the Subway After All
When Vulture caught up with John Slattery at last night's Tribeca Film Festival afterparty for The Giant Mechanical Machine, we had to ask: Did Vulture really ruin the subway for him? "That was a joke!" Slattery assured us. "You guys took it seriously." So he does still take the subway,
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Michelle Williams Is Open to a Dawson’s Reunion
At last night's Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Take This Waltz, Michelle Williams very thoughtfully declined to side with any of the characters in the movie's central debate (put plainly: Should her character cheat or not?). "Everyone sees themselves in these characters," she told us. "Either they're the one that's
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Jason Ritter on Free Samples, His Kid Actor Idol, and Undressing for Jesse Eisenberg
Jason Ritter won't be at the Tribeca Film Festival this year, but his new film Free Samples will. In it, he and his friends try to operate an ice-cream truck, but very little work actually gets done: The head of operations (played by Halley Feiffer) is busy organizing an intervention
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What Is Steve Carell’s Mob Movie About?
As Vulture reported last week, Steve Carell and Jake Johnson are teaming up for a mob comedy to be directed by Max Winkler. Details on the story line have been kept mostly mum, but at the Tribeca Film Festival premiere of The Five-Year Engagement, we got some scoop from co-writer/producer
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An Underdressed Judd Apatow Was Right to Fear Graydon Carter
When we ran into Judd Apatow at Vanity Fair's party for the Tribeca Film Festival, the filmmaker fretted that he was far too underdressed. "I thought this was like a film festival, where you don't dress up!" he said to us. "I gotta go in there and talk to Graydon
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