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Sarah Elizabeth Mintz moved back to New York this month after a seven-year stint in Los Angeles while she was working out Good Girl Jane, her debut feature that just landed with a splash, winning Best Narrative Film at the Tribeca Festival as well as Best Performance for star Rain Spencer. In a conversation with…

Loudmouth's first images are of New York City in the 1980s, startling footage of frothing racism from Howard Beach to Bensonhurst back when Rev. Al Sharpton rose to prominence as an organizer, orator and agitator. The film by Josh Alexander follows the rise of sometime controversial founder of the National Action…

Michael Mann greeted guests via video at a retrospective screening of Heat, saying he'd tested positive for Covid so had to stay away. Producer Art Linson and stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro took the stage at the United Palace Theatre in Washington Heights without the writer/director of the iconic crime drama. But…

Al Pacino was constantly on the verge of getting fired from The Godfather but director Francis Ford Coppola saved the role that launched his career by shifting around shooting sequences to move up a scene – the one where Michael Corleone commits to the family business by popping another mobster and a crooked cop in a…

Almost three months after the Oscars, Will Smith’s on-stage slap of Chris Rock continues to spark a discussion. Asked what the Oscar smack means for the future safety of comedians during a panel Thursday at Tribeca Festival, Alonzo Bodden said he isn't worried. "I'm not going to get slapped on stage," he said. "That…

Coming-of-age drama Good Girl Jane, written and directed by Sarah Elizabeth Mintz, took the Tribeca Festival Founders' Award for Best U.S. Narrative Feature on Thursday while its star Rain Spencer won for Best Performance at the fest, which announced its winners ahead of wrapping this weekend. The film follows lonely…

Common said working on the film Selma turned him into an activist and that a recent seven-month stay in London, where police don't carry guns, "felt like a weight was off my shoulders” as he talked over his life and career at an event awarding him the Tribeca Festival's second annual Harry Belafonte Voices for Social…

Hollywood does not usually get into bidding wars over movies about retired married couples from small-town America, but that is exactly what happened when the true story of Jerry and Marge Selbee came to national attention by way Jason Fagone’s HuffPost article in 2018. A 60 Minutes piece followed the next year…

EXCLUSIVE: Dave Caplan's directorial debut is a love letter and inspirational hip hop archive about The DOC, a master of the art who is more than likely your favorite rapper's favorite rapper. The film chronicles the life of the lyricist and producer who wrote for N.W.A and Dr. Dre, co-founded Death Row Records…

Writer-producer-director Theodore Melfi has a different take than those who think independent filmmaking is becoming an endangered species; in fact, he tells me right now we are in “a golden age of independent film.” That might be one of the reasons he is bullish about both films he has at this week’s Tribeca Festival…

Tyler Perry reluctantly opened up today about Will Smith's Oscar slap of Chris Rock, saying that he "left early to get to Chris to make sure he was okay" but felt empathy for Smith too. In a Q&A with Gayle King at the Tribeca Festival, he took issue with media reports that he had comforted Smith — who sprinted up to…

B.J. Novak is looking for American truth in the dark comedy Vengeance, his feature directorial debut. He's amassed an all-star cast including Issa Rae, Dove Cameron and Boyd Holbrook for the movie about a city-slicking mid-30s man who travels to Texas and gets more than he bargained for in a comedy of errors created…