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On April 22, 2009
New York City will be invaded by the huge monolith
of the Tribeca Film Festival. The Festival was founded
by actor Robert DeNiro and Jane Rosenthal in response
to the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center. They
created the Festival to bring people back to lower
Manhattan; the first Festival opened in April of
2002. The Eight Annual Film Festival will feature
85 features and 46 shorts. And as always there will
be multiple filmmaker panels, roundtable interview
for the film's directors, lots of red carpet events
and parties, parties, parties.
Steven Soderbergh's
The Girlfriend Experience
Mandy Stein's Burning
Down the House
Larry David in Woody Allen's
Whatever Works
As the years have
past, the Festival has become more selective about
the films that are chosen. In the Festival's earlier
years it was more the Big Lots of film festivals;
Tribeca presented a great variety of work, with
great films mixed in with a lot of no-so-greats.
This year the Festival is presenting fewer works
(down from the 150 of previous years) and the selection
is finer. Some of the 2009's highly anticipated
films are: Woody Allen's Whatever
Works (the festival's opening film):Carlos
Cuarón's (of Y Tu Mamá También
fame) Rudo
Y Cursi; Steven Soderbergh's The
Girlfriend Experience; Raymond De Felitta's
City
Island
(starring Andy Garcia); Bette Gordon's Handsome
Harry (starring
Aidan Quinn, John Savage,
and Campbell Scott); Mandy Stein's Burning
Down the House (story of CBGB's); Spike
Lee's Kobe
Doin' Work (Kobe Bryant); Spike Lee's Passing
Strange (film version of the actual Broadway
musical); and Cheryl Hines' Serious
Moonlight. The Festival will end with Donald
Petrie's My
Life in Ruins (starring Nia Vardalos, Richard
Dreyfuss, and Rachel Dratch).
2007 Tribeca Family Film
Festival Family Festival
Photo Credit Kristina Fazekas
2007 Sports Festival
Photo Credit Kristina Fazekas
But films aren't
the only attractions at the Festival. One of the
most fun parts of any Tribeca Film Festival is the
family
festival which features a parade with giant
puppets, games, arts and crafts. This year year
Family Day will conincide with Tribeca
ESPN Sports Day, both on Saturday, May 2, 2009.
New York Cool will
be posting film
reviews every day during the festival and we
will also post a Photos From the Festival page.
So check back often.
Click here to download
the Official
Tribeca Film Guide.
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