April 2010
11 posts
Top Ten Reasons The Tribeca Film Festival is Like...
1) My sleep schedule has been completely effed up. You think I came up with and wrote this article during normal working hours?
2) I am often awakened too early and after too little sleep in the morning. At Bonnaroo, it’s the heat; in Brooklyn it’s the jack hammering. Here comes the neighborhood all right…
3) Omar Rodriguez Lopez was here. He’s probably performed at Bonnaroo???
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Keith Bearden, Writer and Director of Meet Monica...
Meet Monica Velour, starring Kim Cattrall, is not only a rare gem of a film, it’s something even rarer, a feminist film. And an accessible, comedic one at that! Though, as Keith Bearden mentioned in an email to me, it’s almost a “sneak-attack.” Good! Get them in the theaters any way you know how! That said, no one should feel mislead, Meet Monica Velour, currently...
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Tribeca Film Review: The Sentimental Engine Slayer
If you were worried that Tribeca is too commercial (the opening film was Shrek 4), The Sentimental Engine Slayer, an amazing, psychedelic experimental narrative, is not only the opposite of a movie aimed at studio distribution, but it’s writer, director, and actor, Mars Volta guitarist, Omar Rodriguez Lopez, said as much during the Q&A after a screening of his film. Omar’s last two films...
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Tribeca Film Festival: I met Monica Velour, and...
I had the absolute privilege of seeing Meet Monica Velour today, starring Kim Cattrall and Dustin Ingram (I cannot stop kvelling over 20-year-old Dustin Ingram’s turn in this film, not to mention Kim Cattrall’s poignant, comedic, and nuanced performance). Written and Directed by Keith Bearden, Meet Monica Velour is about Tobe, a recent high school graduate, and his love for an aging...
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This week I will attend the Tribeca Film Festival...
This week I will attend the Tribeca Film Festical so you don’t have to, and I will blog about it. Because the revolution will be…blogged about? Because this blog will start as a review of films I see at Tribeca that maybe one or two people will read, (so that’s Mom and Dad, maybe four depending on how busy my brother and his girlfriend are next week). But this blog, Woman of...
