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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s Lucky Life
Spending the day at the beach with a small group of close friends is always a good time. The weather is gorgeous, the sun is bright and the company is priceless. But what happens when another group of...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Review: Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s Sentimental Engine...
As a film critic, I live by the words of Roger Ebert, “It is not what a film is about, it is about how it’s about”. These are the words I think of whenever I see a movie or write a review. With The...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Review: Deborah Scranton’s Earth Made Of Glass
“Commit a crime and the earth is made of glass” these are the words by American Poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson that introduces the documentary “Earth Made of Glass”. This is an interesting way to introduce...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Awards Announced
Tonight, as the Tribeca Film Festival comes to an end, the Festival Awards were announced. This year the jury was comprised of Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Alba, Cheryl Hines, America Ferrera, Justin...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Review: Jacob Tierney’s The Trotsky
Leon Bronstein, played by Jay Baruchel is your average high school student. He doesn’t fit in, he doesn’t get along with his teachers and he feels the need to belong. He also thinks that he is the...
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Episode 33.5 – Disc 2 – On the Screen Discussion
Disc 2 episodes are bonus/supplement episodes of The CriterionCast. Rudie Obias, Ryan Gallagher & James McCormick ramble on and on about movies and movie experiences. ‘On The Screen’ is where...
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Rudie Reviews Brilliante Mendoza’s Lola [Tribeca Film Festival 2010]
One of the gems I screened at the Tribeca Film Festival this year was Brilliante Mendoza’s “Lola”. This is the latest film from the Filipino filmmaker who, for me, came out of nowhere. His breakout...
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Tribeca Announces New Documentary Fund, Submission Period For Grants Open
With fall film festival season up and running, one of the film festival world’s biggest names, The Tribeca Film Institute, the group behind the Tribeca Film Festival, has announced that they will be...
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James Reviews Kat Coiro’s A Case Of You [Tribeca Film Festival 2013 Review]
Justin Long will forever be the perfect man-child, a person who seems to be in a constant state of playing a teen or a young man with no sense of direction. It’s not to say his character of Sam...
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James Reviews Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais’ Whitewash [Tribeca Film Festival 2013...
Every time I see Thomas Haden Church is in a film, it brings a smile to my face. He tends to be a bright spot, no matter the film. Imagine my surprise when I realized, while watching Emanuel...
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James Reviews Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s Big Bad Wolves [Tribeca...
The only thing maniacs are afraid of is other maniacs. It’s been a couple of years since I stumbled upon Aharon Keshales and Navot Papushado’s debut feature film Rabies at Fantastic Fest (review...
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James Reviews Richard Linklater’s Before Midnight [Tribeca Film Festival 2013...
Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy), together again, this time for the third and possibly the most poignant and charming time in Before Midnight, the new film from writer and director Richard...
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James Reviews Karl Mueller’s Mr. Jones [Tribeca Film Festival 2013 Review]
Found footage films are a dime a dozen now, with many just using the genre as an easy way to make a quick buck and a cheap way of doing so. Thankfully Mr. Jones is not one of those films, instead...
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James Reviews Richard Raaphorst’s Frankenstein’s Army [Tribeca Film Festival...
Nazisploitation is an interesting and, for the most part, a shoddy sub-genre of exploitation cinema. For every Ilsa: She Wolf of the S.S., there’s a dozen S.S. Hell Camp‘s that pollute the...
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Sean Reviews Roman Polanski’s Venus in Fur [Tribeca Film Festival Review]
If he keeps on the same track with his next movie, Roman Polanski will have carved out a pretty nice late-period trilogy of chamber pieces in his storied career. Following 2011’s Carnage, a film...
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9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival Lineup Announced [Film Festivals]
This year’s Tribeca Film Festival lineup was announced today in New York City. The film festival will showcase 85 feature-length films and 47 short films from 38 countries. 46 of those are world...
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Tribeca Unveils Non-Competition Films [Film Festivals]
Earlier today, Tribeca organizers have announced their lineup for the films not in festival competition. Some of these films are world premieres or have already premiered at other film festivals like...
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Tribeca Film Festival Announces Short Film Line-Up [Film Festival]
Earlier today, festival organizers announced the line-up for their short film competition. Out of 2,717 submissions, the festival has narrowed it down to a select 47 short films, 21 of which will be...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Alexandra Codina’s Monica and David
On April 21st, 2010, the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival will kick off it’s twelve days of festivities. Incredibly, our own Rudie Obias will be covering the festival as a full fledged member of the...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Lee Isaac Chung’s Lucky Life
Welcome back to our Tribeca 2010 Film Festival preview series. Over the next couple weeks, we’ll be featuring a providing trailers and film descriptions, for many of the films that Rudie Obias will be...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Omar Rodriguez Lopez’s Sentimental Engine...
On tonight’s Tribeca Preview, we take a look at a film that I cannot wait to see more of. One of the more innovative, beautiful, and haunting bands to come across my radar over the past 5 years has to...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: C. Scott Willis’ The Woodmans
For tonight’s installment, we’ve chosen to feature the trailer for what looks to be a charming documentary, highlighting a family of artists. The Woodmans is C. Scott Willis’ first film, and looks to...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Kim Chapiron’s Dog Pound
Tonight, for our Tribeca film preview, we’re presenting the trailer for Kim Chapiron’s Dog Pound. The film presents a look inside the violent and charged world of a youth detention facility, and if...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Tarik Saleh’s Metropia
Welcome back to our series of preview of films screening at the upcoming Tribeca Film Festival, April 21st through May 2nd in New York. Tonight, we’re looking at the first animated film in our...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Alex Mar’s American Mystic
For tonight’s Tribeca Film Festival Preview, we’re showing you a trailer for a film that Rudie has actually already seen, and discussed on our most recent episode. For Episode 30, we discussed “rites...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Joann Sfar’s Gainsbourg, Je t’Aime… Moi...
For our Tribeca preview today, we’re taking a peek at the French biopic, Gainsbourg, Je t’Aime… Moi Non Plus (or Gainsbourg, vie héroïque, depending on where you look), from writer/director/artist:...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Mat Whitecross’ sex & drugs & rock & roll
For tonight’s Tribeca preview, we’re looking at another musician biopic, this time focusing on Ian Dury from the Blockheads. In sex & drugs & rock & roll Andy Serkis plays Dury, and from...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Preview: Brillante Mendoza’s Lola
Welcome back to our series of Tribeca Film Festival previews, where we highlight a film that will be screening over the next few weeks. This week we’re showing you the trailer for Brillante Mendoza’s...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Day 1: Rudie Does Tribeca
Yesterday was the start of the 9th Annual Tribeca Film Festival. The opening film this year was the newest installment in the Shrek franchise, Shrek Forever After. I didn’t attend this event. My press...
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Tribeca Film Festival 2010 Film Review: Alexandra Codina’s Monica & David
Finding that special someone can be a life long pursuit for some. For Monica & David, it wasn’t. When they met, it was love at first sight. Well, at least it was for David. It took a little...
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Seven Films You Need To See At This Year’s Tribeca Film Festival
Well, while it may not feel like it in much of the country (specifically the part effected by this festival), spring is here and so is the spring festival circuit. Starting things off with a bang this...
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