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Tribeca 2011: Critic's Choice - Shorts
Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw salutes Tribeca Film Festival founders’ unwavering goal to enrich the economic and cultural life of a hurting post-9/11 neighborhood and offers critic’s choices from the 2011 line-up.
April 29th, 2011 | Kurt Brokaw
Two shorts make Kurt Brokaw's Critic's Choice from Tribeca 2011: Eva - Working Title and Pentecost.
Below are the Critic's Choice short picks. For a fest overview and the features, click here.
Critic’s Choice - Tribeca Shorts
Eva-Working Title
(Dor Fadlon. 2010. Israel. 14 min.)
Pentecost
(Peter McDonald. 2010. Ireland. 11 min.)
Tribeca 2011: Critic's Choice - Features
Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw salutes Tribeca Film Festival founders’ unwavering goal to enrich the economic and cultural life of a hurting post-9/11 neighborhood and offers critic’s choices from the 2011 line-up.
April 23rd, 2011 | Kurt Brokaw
Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw salutes Tribeca Film Festival founders’ unwavering goal to enrich the economic and cultural life of a hurting post-9/11 neighborhood and offers critic’s choices from the 201l line-up. Top feature picks thus far include Blackthorn, Gone: The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern, The Union, Everything Must Go, and She Monkeys.
A Decade In the Life of the Tribeca Film Festival
New Directors/New Films 2011 - Critic's Choice
New Directors/New Films screens in New York from March 23rd to April 3rd.
March 17th, 2011 | Kurt Brokaw
New Directors/New Films showcases the work of emerging filmmakers from around the globe. Senior critic Kurt Brokaw takes in the festival, now in its 40th year, and gives us his picks of what to seek out and why, including Margin Call, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Night Hunter, and Incendies.
For the second consecutive year, The Independent's senior film critic, Kurt Brokaw, has screened the entire lineup of New Directors/New Films and is reviewing his favorites below, including Margin Call, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Night Hunter, and Incendies.
Leader of Red Sheep
Lou Reed and his cousin--organizer, activist, and spitfire, Red Shirley--talk life after his documentary about her screens at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
January 19th, 2011 | Kurt Brokaw
In Red Shirley, notorious rocker Lou Reed asks his 101-year-old cousin, Shirley Novick, to share her wisdom on camera. Reed and Novick appeared with the short doc at its New York premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival.
Red Shirley, Lou Reed’s 28-minute homage to his 101-year-old cousin, Shirley Novick, had its New York premiere January 15th, as part of the 20th Annual New York Jewish Film Festival which runs through January 27th.
New York Film Festival 2010 - Critic's Choice
September 22nd, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
The Independent's senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival. New films will be added to this list throughout the fest, which runs September 24th through October 10th.
The Independent's senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival. Below are excerpts of full reviews. New films will be added to this list throughout the fest, which runs September 24th through October 10th.
The Robber
(Benjamin Heisenberg. 2010. Austria-Germany. 96 min.)
A Meeting of Worlds: YouTube Biennial at the Guggenheim
Courtney Sheehan reports on the Guggenheim’s foray into digital culture and the mixed reactions to merging low and high culture
July 9th, 2010 | Courtney Sheehan
YouTube and the Guggenheim are joining forces to orchestrate “the first biennial of creative video,” called YouTube Play. The Independent's Courtney Sheehan ponders the high-meets-low aspect of this endeavor with help from the blogosphere.
The Guggenheim Museum: one of the art world’s most venerable institutions, home of masterpieces from the Impressionist movement to the modern era.
Defending Tribeca in an Era of Megabrands
In addition to serving up his top choices from Tribeca 2010, reviewer Kurt Brokaw celebrates the festival's sprawling, something-for-everyone approach.
May 11th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
Kurt Brokaw stamps his critic's seal on select films from Tribeca 2010 and explains why the festival deserves a nod for nine years of expansive programming in a post-9/11 neighborhood... and world.
Those French scamps who walked off with this year’s Best Short Oscar (LogoRama) didn’t sneak in a Tribeca Film Festival logo among their 2,500 global power players.
Tribeca 2010: Travis Senger on "White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug"
Travis Senger takes on '80s hip-hop and an unsolved murder in his latest film, just named Best Documentary short at Tribeca 2010.
May 1st, 2010 | Michele Meek
With never-before-seen footage and interviews with Kurtis Blow, DJ Hollywood, and club owner Sal Abbatiello, the short documentary White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug portrays life in the ‘80s when hip-hop was young, cocaine was in, and life as a DJ often meant you did a little of both.
After winning a special jury prize at SXSW 2010, Filmmaker Travis Senger brings his short documentary White Lines and The Fever: The Death of DJ Junebug to the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival this week. His documentary explores the old days of hip-hop and the dangerous underworld at the legendary Disco Fever.
Tribeca 2010: Mary Robertson on "Missed Connections"
Mary Robertson explains why eight minutes is a "delicious" length and then comes clean about whether or not she's had any "missed connections." Her short film screens at Tribeca 2010.
April 28th, 2010 | Michele Meek
Have you ever felt your eyes lock with someone across a crowded subway, only to wish later that you had ripped through the crowd to get some digits? You’re not the only one. That's the subject of director Mary Robertson’s short film Missed Connections now screening at the 2010 Tribeca Film Festival.
Have you ever felt your eyes lock with someone across a crowded subway, only to wish later that you had ripped through the crowd to get some digits? You’re not the only one.
Advance Look at New Directors/New Films
Kurt Brokaw reviews his favorites from the longstanding collaborative festival between The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art, screening March 24th-April 4th.
March 17th, 2010 | Kurt Brokaw
True that The Independent is not in the habit of reviewing films, but we've got fresh talent on board with Kurt Brokaw, New School professor and 92Y teacher. He's watching all 38 films in the New Directors/New Films lineup and zoning in on the best of the fest exclusively for our readers.
For the past 38 years in Manhattan, The Film Society of Lincoln Center and The Museum of Modern Art have collaborated on an annual presentation of New Directors/New Films. This year's 27 features and 11 shorts, representing 20 countries, will screen at both locales between March 24th and April 4th.
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