I can only imagine that one of the hardest parts of being a documentary filmmaker is not letting the quality and importance of your footage be eclipsed by a lack of thematic focus or talent. Consider Bernard-Henri Lévy’s recent documentary…
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Tribeca Review: Buster’s Mal Heart
Casting traditional narrative techniques aside, Sarah Adina Smith’s Buster’s Mal Heart follows three separate narratives centering on three men all played by Rami Malek who may or may not be the same person. The first is Jonah, a doting husband…
Tribeca 2017: The Wedding Plan
Perhaps that great American poet Jim Jarmusch put it best when he said: “Poetry in translation is like taking a shower with [a] raincoat on.” No matter the effort, subtle cultural nuances are inevitably lost during translation. These go beyond…
Tribeca Review: November
Late in his career, Orson Welles once rumbled in an interview that one of the keys to making a great movie was to have a great opening scene. Excellent advice; just make sure your great opening scene isn’t also your…
Tribeca Review: The Divine Order
It’s difficult to judge Petra Biondina Volpe’s The Divine Order because its individual parts feel so drastically different from each other. The film follows a Swiss housewife named Nora (Marie Leuenberger) who experiences a political awakening and helps organize and…
Tribeca Review: The Family I Had
When he was little, Paris drew crayon pictures of dinosaurs and dreamed of being a paleontologist. When he came home from his school in Abilene, Texas, he’d play with his baby sister, playing silly games and making even sillier home…
Tribeca Review: LA 92
It only takes a single soundtrack cue to elevate Dan Lindsay and TJ Martin’s LA 92 from being a good documentary to an essential one. It comes about 15-20 minutes into the film. The city of Los Angeles braces itself…