Tribeca Film Festival

This Saturday will mark the start of the third annual Tribeca Film Festival. There's a democratic mix of high (Hector Barbenco's Carandiru) and crowdpleasing low (New York Minute with the Olsen Twins) brow (as well as the gossip-worthy, like Stage Beauty, the film that Billy Crudup and Claire Danes met on) films, and tickets are still available for many screenings. It's a great week and a half of movies, panels, and other events that energize downtown neighborhoods.

There's voting for a Guilty Pleasure Movie to be screened at Pier 25 on Friday, May 7. Included are A Clockwork Orange, Evil Dead 2, Fletch, Re-Animator, Rushmore, The Jerk, and more. While Gothamist loves Rushmore, Dazed and Confused is our guilty pleasure movie of choice.

The Times had two articles about the TFF: One about its presence in New York and another about the narrative and documenary films shot in New York. New York magazine has a guide to the festival; Gothamist also found NY magazine's neighborhood guide for Tribeca helpful as well. The Hollywood Reporter notes the film festival's struggle to find an identity (the downside to being popular and trying to gain critical mass). Plus, there's also a cool Metrocard-like t-shirt from the Tribeca Film Festival.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on April 27, 2004 12:44 PM

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karatechimp

I saw a few of the films playing at SXSW.

I'd recommend seeing the Pro-Bowling doc 'A League of Ordinary Gentlemen.' Also have seen 'Homework' (good though a little slow and depressing) and 'Bush's Brain' (good info but not a good film) I suggest reading the book as the authors told most of the stories in the film.

And Dazed and Confused is awesome. Fun Fact: Beck is marrying the redhead in the movie.

KevinM

How can you call "Dazed and Confused" or "Rushmore" guilty pleasures? I would think a guilty pleasure would be something along the lines of "Point Break" or "How the West Was Fun".

KevinM

How can you call "Dazed and Confused" or "Rushmore" guilty pleasures? I would think a guilty pleasure would be something along the lines of "Point Break" or "How the West Was Fun".