[Tribeca Review] A Courtship

Dating can be awful, but there are worse alternatives. Take the act of Christian Courtship, which is the subject of Amy Kohn’s documentary A Courtship. To practice Christian courtship is to save yourself completely for marriage, including your first kiss. The playful snogging in the school yard is done in the devil’s territory. Christian Courtship […]

[Tribeca Review] (T)ERROR

In Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe’s documentary (T)ERROR, good counterterrorism intelligence seems to be a secondary worry for Shariff. He’s 63 years old, he’s an ex-con, he’s been an FBI informant for decades, and, most importantly, he has bills to pay. That’s always in the back of his mind—he does this because he […]

[Tribeca] GORED’s Reckless Bravery Offers Lessons for Creatives

Ido Mizhary’s GORED provokes an innate morbidity. We’re told that Antonio Barrera is not the most graceful of bullfighters. He’s been gored a staggering 23 times. The documentary is framed by Barrera’s final bullfight before retirement. Given all the cliches about death during a last job, it’s unclear if he’ll make it out unscathed. We’re also told […]

[Tribeca Review] Palio

The Palio is a horse race that’s been held in the Italian city of Siena since 1656. Twice each year in the summer, the 14 districts of the city pick horses and hire jockeys to represent them. The riders dash around the square for 90 mad seconds while the crowds watching from the ground and […]

[Tribeca Review] The Survivalist

In most post-apocalyptic movies, the predominant colors are brown and gray, as if the only things that can exist in this fallen world are dirt, soot, and some muddy combination of the two. In Stephen Fingleton’s assured feature film debut, The Survivalist, the post-apocalytic world is green instead, lush and overgrown now that the human […]

The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival Begins

The 2015 Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tonight in New York City. Established in 2002, this year’s Tribeca Film Festival runs from April 15th to the 26th, and features numerous world premieres, special screenings and events, talks and conversations with filmmakers, arts installations, and more. Some notable programming includes a conversation between George Lucas and […]