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The folks flock to "City Island."
Mon, May 4 2009 9:58 AM

Raymond De Felitta's "City Island," a comedy starring Andy Garcia set in the little-known New York neighborhood of its title, turned out to tbe the crowd favorite at this year's Tribeca Film Festival, winning the Heineken Audience Award. Marshall Curry's "Racing Dreams" and mockumentary "Midgets Vs. Mascots" were the... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, The Eclipse, Tribeca 2009, North, City Island, Midgets Vs. Mascots, About Elly, Defamation, Fixer: The Taking of Ajmal Naqshbandi, The Exploding Girl, Racing Dreams, Here and There

Tribeca 2009: "My Last Five Girlfriends."
Sun, Apr 26 2009 4:45 PM

Julian Kemp's "My Last Five Girlfriends" is less romance than ode to heartbreak -- the London-based comedy starts off with a suicide attempt by Duncan (Brendan Patricks), whose will to live has been shattered by the brutal end of his most recent relationship. The story then cycles back to the beginning of the trail of doomed romances, introducing... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Tribeca 2009, Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, My Last Five Girlfriends, High Fidelity, Julian Kemp, On Love, Alain de Botton, Jane March

Tribeca 2009: "The Exploding Girl."
Sat, Apr 25 2009 4:40 PM

Named after the B-side to The Cure's "In Between Days" -- the tune that provided the title to director Bradley Rust Gray's wife and filmmaking partner So Yong Kim's 2006 debut -- "The Exploding Girl" is a similarly moody slow-motion maybe love story between a young woman and the male best friend she's begun to reconsider in... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Tribeca 2009, The Exploding Girl, Eric Lin, In Between Days, Bradley Rust Gray, Mark Rendall, Zoe Kazan, So Yong Kim

Tribeca 2009: "Here and There."
Fri, Apr 24 2009 4:35 PM

Men are from New York and women are from Serbia in "Here and There," the first narrative film from writer/director Darko Lungulov, a sweet-natured, by the book, fish-out-of-water comedy. Technically, some of the men are also from Serbia, but though it tries to tell the dual stories of an American man traveling to Belgrade to bestow a visa on a girl... Read More...

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Filed under: Festivals, Tribeca 2009, Here and There, Cyndi Lauper, Branislav Trifunovic, Mirjana Karanovic, David Thornton, Darko Lungulov

Tribeca goes on a diet.
Mon, Mar 9 2009 12:45 PM

The 2009 Tribeca competition and discovery line-ups were announced this morning, and indieWIRE has the full list of films here. This new recession-era Tribeca consists of a svelte 84 features, and I'm sure I'm not the only journalist sighing in relief at that number -- in previous years, sprawling Tribeca line-ups made screenings sometimes feel like a... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: José Padilha, The Eclipse, Kirby Dick, Conor McPherson, Liz Mermin, Tribeca 2009, Mark Polish, Ian Olds, Michael Polish, Marshall Curry