Writer-director Michael Gallagher, another filmmaker who got his start on YouTube with millions of followers for shows like TotallySketch, has always been a bit obsessed with the infamous Heaven’s Gate 1997 mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, CA, right outside where he grew up in San Diego. His interest in this horrific event and the […]

Robert De Niro took a thinly veiled dig at Donald Trump at the opening night of Tribeca Festival on Wednesday. The Oscar-winner used his time at the podium to talk about Tribeca’s mission as a festival formed in the wake of 9/11 to shine a spotlight on a part of the city that had been […]

They say that dance can be healing. But, when pro dancer Hayley Erbert underwent an emergency craniectomy to treat a life-threatening brain bleed in December 2023, the last thing anyone expected was for her to return to the stage four months later. And yet, that’s exactly what she did. “Honestly, it just strengthened my relationship […]

Sean Penn hates selfies and will not, under any circumstances, go to a public gathering with more than eight people — which is why he was noticeably absent from the recent 98th Academy Awards, where he won Best Supporting Actor (his third Oscar). The revelations came during a conversation between Penn and CNN anchor Kaitlin […]

Jodie Foster reminisced about her time playing 12-year-old prostitute Iris in “Taxi Driver” alongside Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Paul Schrader during the film’s 50th anniversary reunion at the Tribeca Festival. One memory that remains “seared in [her] memory” is arriving on set and finding Scorsese and De Niro unable to stop giggling as […]

Saturday Night Live’s James Austin Johnson gave the Tribeca Festival a taste, and analysis, of his celebrated stream-of consciousness Donald Trump impression. He often wings it. “It wouldn’t feel like Trump if there wasn’t this queasy feeling in the audience of ‘what is he going to say?’ and so I have to improvise for the […]

Deadline and other entertainment outlets routinely publish minute-by-minute accounts of film festival standing ovations. On Friday at the Tribeca Festival, Madonna’s appearance at a world premiere drew frenzied ovations that could never be timed on a stopwatch – before, during and after the 90-minute event at the Beacon Theatre. The reaction was all the more […]

Questlove tells the band’s story, and Maurice White’s story, in a way that’s at once thrilling and haunting. He captures their rightful place in the pop cosmos.

Sean Ono Lennon’s directorial debut ThreeASFOUR: FULL CIRCLE, a loving portrait of the avant-garde New York fashion collective, is set to premiere at the Tribeca Festival Sunday night. The doc, co-directed with Brian C. González, is also getting a fall release at the Film Forum in NYC via new distributor Assembly Releasing. ThreeASFOUR’s Gabi Asfour, […]

Tribeca X, the Tribeca Festival’s flagship program dedicated to brand-supported storytelling, has announced that A$AP Rocky will be honored with the inaugural Tribeca X Filmmaker of the Year Award, which recognizes the rapper for his work in music, fashion, film, design, and brand storytelling. Tribeca X will take place June 8–9 at Spring Studios during […]

“Kinks are eroticized fears,” says author Dan Savage in the fascinating documentary Mineshaft: The Cruising Murders, which takes a brutal murder as its starting point and goes on to paint a portrait of pre-AIDS New York, with the filming of William Friedkin’s Cruising (1980) as its backdrop. Not all Friedkin’s films hit the zeitgeist in […]

In Memoriam, a new existential dramedy that premieres at the Tribeca Festival on Sunday, proves an ideal vehicle for Marc Maron to flex his acting chops. Mining the insecurities, anxieties and contradictions that have long animated his comedy, Maron here plays Langston, a veteran television actor who, after receiving a terminal diagnosis, becomes fixated with […]