Indieville : Tribeca 2009

The folks flock to "City Island."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:58:54 GMT

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 runners-up. "Racing Dreams" was already lauded with a jury prize for Best Documentary -- the rest of the awards, which were announced...(read more)

Tribeca 2009: "My Last Five Girlfriends."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:45:14 GMT

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 us to Wendy (Kelly Adams) -- wasn't over her ex; Olive (Jane March) -- impenetrable; Rhona (Cécile Cassel) -- moody and just not the right...(read more)

Tribeca 2009: "The Exploding Girl."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 21:40:49 GMT

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 a romantic light. While Kim's film mixed its adolescent angst with the isolation of the newly immigrated, Gray's is set in more familiar...(read more)

Tribeca 2009: "Here and There."

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:35:39 GMT

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 he hasn't met by marrying her, and the Serbian man in New York trying to raise enough money to pay him for that service, "Here and...(read more)

Tribeca goes on a diet.

IFC.com - Indie Eye — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:45:35 GMT

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 crapshoot, and the festival loomed like a behemoth difficult to get an overall sense of. Quick observations on the selections: The Polish brothers...(read more)