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Japanese Film Departures, 2009's Foreign Language Oscar Winner, Illuminates Asian Rituals of Death

Brad Balfour | Posted 07.04.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Foreign Language Oscar Winner, Asian Rituals of Death, Departures, Japan, Tribeca Film Festival, Entertainment News

The director and star of the Academy-Award-winning film Departures discuss directoril methods, cellos and the process of encoffining.

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Q&A: Actor Geena Davis Got an Oscar and Now Makes Accidents Happen

Brad Balfour | Posted 06.25.2009 | Entertainment

Davis's startling and starring reappearance makes for a snappy and sharp-witted comeback. She plays the maternal head of a decidedly distraught and traumatized suburban family.

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Interview with Fixer Director Ian Olds: Afghanistan, History and Winning Best Documentary at Tribeca Film Festival

Robyn Hillman-Harrigan | Posted 06.12.2009 | World

Read More: History, Tribeca Film Festival, World, The Brooklyn Socialite, Afghanistan, Documentaries, Ian Olds, Ajmal Naqshbandi, Afghanistan War, World News

I caught up with the film's director, Ian Olds for a lively conversation about Fixer, the state of politics in Afghanistan, historiography and how it feels to have been in two war zones in the past few years.

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TriBeCa Interview: My Life In Ruins with Nia Vardalos

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 06.04.2009 | Media

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, My Life in Ruins, Nia Vardalos, My-Big-Fat-Greek-Wedding, Media News

I don't feel compelled to do a sequel to My Big Fat Greek Wedding. But I do plan to continue to explore my heritage in my films.

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Why I Support First-Time Filmmakers and the Importance of Celebrating Their Work

Trudie Styler | Posted 06.01.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Guy Ritchie, Independent Film, Filmmaking, Tribeca, Sundance, Film, Xingu Films, Tribeca Film Festival, First Time Filmmakers, Dito Montiel, Movies, Entertainment News

I hope you'll take some chances on movie night and see some independent films - these are the hidden jewels of the film industry, and the showcases for the future greats of cinema.

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Iranian 'About Elly,' 'Racing Dreams' Win Tribeca Prizes

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 06.01.2009 | Entertainment

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NEW YORK — The Iranian drama "About Elly" and documentary "Racing Dreams" won top honors at the Tribeca Film Festival. Awards for the eighth ann...

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TriBeCa: Immigrant Children Asking Which Way Home

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 05.31.2009 | World

Read More: Which Way Home, Tribeca Film Festival, World News

Cammissa continues by hoping that her film "will serve as a catalyst to promote a dialogue that leads to creating humane, immigration policy reform in the United States."

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TriBeCa Interview: In The Loop's Armando Ianucci and the Politics of War

Matthew-Lee Erlbach | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Armando Iannucci, In the Loop, Tribeca, Tribeca Film Festival, Entertainment News

I shot the film on HD. I like to be able to improvise but also get a real, cinema verite film. I wanted it to feel raw like you're eavesdropping.

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Gary Coleman At 41: A New Movie, A Wife And A Website Selling Candles

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.31.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Gary Coleman, Midgets vs. Mascots, Tribeca Film Festival, Film, Ron Carlson, Entertainment News

Gary Coleman limped into the lobby of the DirecTV Tribeca Center in green Crocs and jeans, looking unusually thin and noticeably weary from a day of p...

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Eric Bana Makes Film On His First Love: A Car

AP | JAKE COYLE | Posted 05.30.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Love the Beast, Tribeca Film Festival, Film, Ford, Eric Bana, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Eric Bana has shared the screen with various leading ladies. The only one who really got his motor running? A Ford GT Falcon coupe. ...

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Sasha Grey At "The Girlfriend Experience": Soderbergh's Porn Star Leading Lady (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.29.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Steven Soderbergh, Slideshow, Film, Sasha Grey, The Girlfriend Experience, Entertainment News

Tuesday night Steven Soderbergh premiered "The Girlfriend Experience" at the Tribeca Film Festival. The scripted movie, which tells the story of a...

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Alexis Bledel In Cut-Out Dress At Tribeca (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.27.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Tribeca Film Festival, Andrew McCarthy, The Good Guy, Film, Alexis Bledel, Entertainment News

Former Gilmore Girl Alexis Bledel wore a dress with the sides cut out to the premiere of "The Good Guy" Sunday at the Tribeca Film Festival. Bledel...

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Mary-Kate Olsen Excited To Be Tribeca Juror: "This Is Fun"

AP | ALICIA QUARLES | Posted 05.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Film, Tribeca Film Festival, Mary-Kate Olsen, New York-New York, New York City, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — Mary-Kate Olsen is taking her duties as a juror at the Tribeca Film Festival as seriously as an A-student getting ready for the first...

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Wild and Wonderful at Tribeca

Julien Nitzberg | Posted 05.25.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Appalachia, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca Documentary, Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia, Documentaries, Coal Mining, Entertainment News

Our movie deals with some very serious issues like the destructiveness of the mining industry and entitlement culture but we also have a lot of fun drug use, gun shooting, and gratuitous nudity.

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Tribeca Film Festival: Hysterical Psycho

Dan Fogler | Posted 05.24.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Alfred Hitchcock, Tribeca Film Festival, Hitchcock, Psycho, Hysterical Psycho, Entertainment News

The title says it all. I wanted to direct an homage to Alfred Hitchcock with my own modern stamp of course.

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Who Is Tribeca Film Festival's Best-Dressed So Far? (PHOTOS, POLL)

Huffington Post | Posted 05.24.2009 | Style

Read More: Tory Burch, Evan Rachel Wood, Tribeca Film Festival Fashion, Debra Messing, Tribeca Film Festival, Diane Von Furstenberg, Poll, Style News

The Tribeca Film Festival kicked off Tuesday night with a party hosted by Vanity Fair, and continued into Wednesday with the premiere of Woody Allen's...

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The Bigger They Con, The Harder They Fall: Tribeca Film Festival Documentary On Artist Mark Kostabi

Jonathan Melber | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Andy Warhol, Hbo, Art Market, Tribeca Film Festival, Art, Art World, Contemporary Art, Documentary, Documentaries, Documentary Film, Michael Sladek, Mark Kostabi, Film, Comedy, New York Art, Entertainment News

One of the things that makes Con Artist so interesting is its search for what's behind Mark Kostabi's current act. Is there something new to his art, or its meaning?

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Movie: Wonderful World

Josh Goldin | Posted 05.23.2009 | Entertainment

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Wonderful World is about the friendship between Matthew Broderick and me and also about the friendship between the character Matthew plays... and the world.

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Vanity Fair's Tribeca Film Festival Opening Party: Bono, Kanye, Salman, De Niro & More (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Katherine Thomson | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Les Moonves, Kanye West, Julie Chen, Vanity Fair, Ivanka Trump, Josh Lucas, Diane Von Furstenberg, Brian Williams, Tribeca Film Festival, Larry David, Christiane Amanpour, Graydon Carter, Andre Leon Talley, Slideshow, Debra Messing, Robert De Niro, Bono, Entertainment News

The Tribeca Film Festival begins Wednesday night with the premiere of Woody Allen's new film "Whatever Works," and Tuesday Vanity Fair held its annual...

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Letter to a Young Director

Julio Depietro | Posted 05.22.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Creativity, Art, The Good Guy, Film, Directing, Tribeca Film Festival, Tribeca, Entertainment News

Take that first step. Write one sentence. One brush stroke. Make one zero-budget short film. You never know where that might lead you -- but you know what will never happen if you don't.

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Making In the Loop and The Exclusive Poster Debut

Armando Iannucci | Posted 05.21.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: In the Loop, Tribeca Film Festival, Political Satire, Tony Blair, Movies, Entertainment News

The film was inspired by practically every British politician who comes to America and meets famous folk like Vice Presidents and Five-Star Generals and who can't help but get star-struck.

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"Turkey is Sad": Films from the Istanbul International Film Festival

Karin Badt | Posted 05.20.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Turkey, Tribeca Film Festival, Istanbul International Film Festival, Parents With Alzheimer's, Reha Erdem, My Only Sunshine, Yesim Ustaoglu, Pandora's Box, San Sebastian International Film Festival, Bosphorus, Entertainment News

"Is Turkey really such a sad country?" I asked a young actor with wavy hair, who kneeled next to me with his dangerously tilted wine glass at a fea...

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Delivering Social Good via Technology as Economy Collapses

Jim Luce | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: Carnegie Corporation, Golden Venture Film, Bill Clinton, Thought Leader, Pro Bono Assistance, Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, Open Society Institute, Mark O'Brien, Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Pro Bono Lawyers, Chronicle of Philanthropy, LawHelp.Org, Michael Hertz, Immigration Advocates Network, Tribeca Film Festival, The Golden Venture, Pro Bono Net, Elite Imaging & Discovery, Kirkland & Ellis, Stephen Chen, Legal Aid Societies, Pro Se, Pro Bono Manager, Manatt Phelps & Phillips, Debevoise & Plimpton, Soros Foundation, Gates Foundation, Linklaters, World News

As the economy continues to spiral downward, the need for that long-cherished legal concept of pro bono assistance to those with growing legal problems has skyrocketed.

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Woody Allen Film To Open Tribeca Film Festival

AP | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Whatever Works, Tribeca Film Festival, Woody Allen, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — The Tribeca Film Festival will celebrate Woody Allen's return to making films in New York by showing his new movie on the festival's ...

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De Niro Expands Tribeca Film Festival To Doha, Aims To Break Down Stereotypes

Diane Tucker | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Movies, Tribeca Film Festival, Filmmaking, Museum of Islamic Art, Abu Dhabi, Middle East Media, Robert De Niro Hotel, Tribeca Film Festival Doha, Al Jazeera, Diane Tucker, Qatar, Craig Hatkoff, Jane Rosenthal, Dubai, Robert De Niro, Middle East, Entertainment News

Craig Hatkoff: We'd like to see Doha become part of a larger hub -- a network that underscores the potential of the region.

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