Tribeca Film Festival

The National Premiere New Songs and a New Movie at Tribeca Film Fest

Last night, Mistaken for Strangers, a film that's sort of about the National and their tour for High Violet, but really turns into something else, debuted at the opening night of Tribeca Film Festival. It's a funny year for the band -- in June they'll headline Barclays Center, and tonight they hobno ... More >>

Brilliantly Bonkers Horror: What to See at Tribeca's "Midnight" Film Festival

Tribeca Lives! Ten Films to See at a Fest That's All Grown Up

Mayor Bloomberg Hates Going To The Movies (And The Media, Of Course)

We have TriBeCa Film Festival. We have the Angelicka. We have countless movie premieres, movies being made here left and right, celebrity spottings and the like. New York City is a place made for the movies; it's basically a film mantra that you're either filming here or in L.A. And Mayor Bloomberg ... More >>

Andy Dick: "I'd Be Dead Now If I'd Accepted That Part"

Getting Freaky Deaky with the sober funnyman

Michelle Williams' Offbeat New Boyfriend

They were all cuddly and romantic at the Tribeca Film Festival party for his The Five-Year Engagement. And then they got all publicly snuggly again at the festival's bash for her Take This Waltz.

What To See at the Tribeca Film Festival

This Week in The Voice: Mitt Romney, American Parasite

This week in the Voice, out today: Pete Kotz examines Mitt Romney's brand of capitalism, and finds that it represents everything you hate about America's economic system: "His specialty was flipping companies -- or what he often calls 'creative destruction.' It's the age-old theory that the new must ... More >>

AT THE DRIVE-IN

No actual car necessary

INDIE GEMS

A new film fest opens in Hell's Kitchen

Escaping North Korea, But Not Hard Times in The Journals of Musan

Ozzy Osbourne Documentary Reissues, Repackages, But Doesn't Re-Evaluate The Prince Of Darkness

By Eric Hynes ​God Bless Ozzy Osbourne Directed by Mike Fleiss and Mike Piscitelli Starring Ozzy Osburne, Sharon Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Tommy Lee, Kelly Osbourne, Bill Ward The most overexposed of rock stars receives yet more attention thanks to this standard-issue biopic, which premi ... More >>

Elton John Is Playing A Free Show Tonight, And You Can Get Tickets Today

​Tonight the Tribeca Film Festival kicks off with a free outdoor screening of Cameron Crowe's Elton John/Leon Russell documentary The Union at the North Cove at the World Financial Center, and the movie will be followed by a live performance by the Rocket Man himself. The screening starts at 8 ... More >>

MUPPET AROUND TOWN

Drive-in fun, no car needed

Germany's Soul Kitchen Debuts in Theaters Next Week

Soul Kitchen premiered in New York at the Tribeca Film Fest earlier this year, and it's now starting its run in theaters. The film is a madcap comedy about a Hamburg restaurateur whose eatery becomes a success only when he tries to sell it and lets anarchy break out in the kitchen and dining room. ... More >>

'Ticked-off Trannies' Should Get a GLAAD Award

​ CLICK HERE for my new column detailing the week's most rivetingly LGBT events: *The showing of the controversal Ticked-off Trannies With Knives at the Tribeca Film Festival, where no one seemed the least bit mad

Klaus Nomi Movie In The Works!

​Klaus Nomi was an eccentric fellow from Germany via outer space who wore black butterfly lips and new wave outfits and sang operatic arias in a piercing falsetto that could smash your cocktail glass. He was quite the downtown sensation in the '70s and early '80s--there was even a SNL appeara ... More >>

What's Happening This Week: Beat Sugar with Pizza; Drink Cocktails That Bloom

As many of you know, our weekly dining and drinking newsletter features all the coolest epicurean events in the city. Sign up for it here! Botanicals: A Tasting & Hands-On Cocktail Workshop Astor Center April 26th at 6:30 p.m. Hey, there's some flora in my drink! No worries: the botanicals in spir ... More >>

Interview: The Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez Lopez on His New Film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, Which Has Its New York Debut At The Tribeca Film Festival

Omar Rodriguez Lopez, the poofy-haired, three-piece-suit wearing, multi-instrumentalist of the Mars Volta, can now add actor, writer, and director to his extensive inventory of careers. His debut film, The Sentimental Engine Slayer, which premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival back in February, ... More >>

This Week's Voice: R. Crumb on Genesis (The Band), Green Day's New Musical, Merle Haggard, The Tribeca Film Festival, Le Cage aux Folles, And More

​Lots of great stuff in this week's Village Voice, though it all kinda pales in comparison to the incomparable Ward Sutton, who imagines R. Crumb doing an illustrated history of Genesis -- that's Phil Collins' Genesis, not God's. Elsewhere in music, Harvilla checks out the tremendously profane ... More >>

Advice for the Tribeca Film Festival: Party Harder!

5 Tribeca Film Festival Must-Sees

Eyjafjallajokull Continues to Piss Off Everybody Except Icelanders

​Remember that movie Joe Versus the Volcano? It wasn't very good, but it featured a young(er) Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan before her lips got all Howard-the-Duck, and it was about a guy who thinks he's dying and offers to jump into a live volcano to appease the volcano gods. And even though that mo ... More >>

Trannies, Drag Queens, and Hermaphs at the Tribeca Fest!

​The ninth annual Tribeca Film Festival starts Wednesday, and though the opening feature is the pretty mainstream Shrek Forever After, a lot of the rest of the lineup is "edgy" and quirky and plays with gender as much as most film critics tend to play with themselves. There's Ticked-off Trann ... More >>

Mars Volta Frontman Omar Rodriguez Lopez's "Semi-Autobiographical Tale of a Twentysomething Misfit's Loopy Trip Through Manhood" to Screen at Tribeca Film Fest

The film, in fine Mars Volta/At the Drive In fashion, is titled The Sentimental Engine Slayer, and first premiered a few months back at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. It tells the story of two El Paso siblings who ride bikes, collect cars, hook up with prostitutes, and finally descend ... More >>

Week in Review: "Some Magazine, I Don't Know Where It Was."

Sahoko Yui In the week Rush Limbaugh called us "some magazine," we invited our friend Status Ain't Hood back for a day. Oh, and right: Congrats Tom! Interviews: Wavves' Nathan Williams on drugs and the beach, Albert Maysles on HBO's new Grey Gardens, Ian Svenonius on Kanye West and his new band, C ... More >>

This Week in the Voice

Photo by Star Foreman. You're going to love Zoe Kazan. She's Hollywood royalty (granddaughter of Elia Kazan). She's been on Broadway and in movies, one of which, The Exploding Girl, debuts at the Tribeca Film Festival. Melissa Anderson interviews her. You may also view Star Foreman's photo slidesh ... More >>

More Life For The Boys in the Band

A bunch of gay men come together at a party, where they exchange barbs, do campy dance routines, and make each other cry. Sound like a night at my place? Well, it's actually the plot of The Boys in the Band, Mart Crowley's landmark '60s play, which was made into a fabulously entertaining--and stil ... More >>

Tribeca Film Fest Goes to Qatar

SHORT AND SWEET

The mother of short-film festivals comes to NYC

Say Adios to 'Passing Strange'

SqueezeBox! Movie Rocks The Festival!

Tina Fey Dissed Me and Probably Doesn't Even Know It

The Princess and the Submissive

A new documentary short delves into the world of two bondage models

Drag Rock Movie Hits Tribeca Festival in a Whoosh of Mascara

Talking Tag With Graffiti Docmaker Jon Reiss

Tribeca welcomes Bomb It, while city ruins its party

The Good, Bad, and Truly Spectacular: Tribeca Film Festival 2007

Rising ticket prices! Sponsorship gone awry! Oh yes, and a movie you do not want to miss.

Tribeca Preview

25 movies that intrigued, annoyed, and greatly pleased our fest-happy critics

Festival Excess

Après Tribeca, a deluge of film fests

NY Mirror

Scarlet Fever

Tribeca's behind-the-scenes architect explains why bigger is better

Best in Show

The Top 40 Picks of the Tribeca Film Festival

Feign of Terror

A British filmmaker deconstructs the politics of fear exploited by radical Islamists and American neocons alike.

The Top 40 Picks From the Tribeca Film Festival

The Hit List

Downtown Express

25 movies to catch at the Tribeca Film Festival

FCS reaches critical mass, yielding No Rest for the Brave

Coal Miners' Slaughter

Murder by numbers: Chinese workers get the shaft in new dog-eat-dog capitalist economy

Sad Songs Say So Much

Prosthetics and Process: A Shooting Journal

Lost Dreams

Welcome to the Latino Gaze

Under the Stars