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Episode 425 – Tribeca Film Festival 2019 (Day 4 & Wrap Up) – #TFF2019 #Tribeca2019
In our final Podcast from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, we give our picks of the film festival as well as coverage of the movies:
– Low Tide (02:59)
– Plus One (07:10)
– Dreamland (13:50)
– Lost Transmissions (21:55)
– Festival Picks and Wrap Up (31:37)
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Episode 424 – Tribeca Film Festival 2019 (Day 3) – #TFF2019 #Tribeca2019
In part 3 of our coverage of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, we talk about White Moustache Yoghurts and the following movies:
– Gully (10:20)
– Stray Dolls (12:30)
– The Short History of the Long Road (17:57)
– Rewind (22:41)
– Clementine (29:57)
– Flawless (34:27)
– Georgetown (42:46)
– De Niro and Scorsese (48:21)
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Episode 423 – Tribeca Film Festival 2019 (Day 2) – #TFF2019 #Tribeca2019
Our coverage of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival continues with genorous helpings of dumplings and the following movies:
– Crown Vic (02:40)
– Circus Of Books (04:28)
– Run (18:55)
– Aamis (23:26)
– A Taste of Sky (32:30)
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Episode 422 – Tribeca Film Festival 2019 (Day 1) – #TFF2019 #Tribeca2019
Welcome to our inagural Podcast from the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival with coverage of the movies:
– Halston (03:34)
– Charlie Says (10:19)
– Luce (16:31)
– Standing Up, Falling Down (22:36)
– At The Heart of Gold (28:52)
– The Gasoline Thieves (39:01)
– Burning Cane (44:18)
– Come to Daddy (49:57)
– A Regular Woman (53:53)
– After Parkland (59:25)
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Full Listing of 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Coverage | #tribeca2017
So there we were, in New York City again, giddy and electric with excitement at the start of another Tribeca Film Festival. #tribeca2017 beckoned. Our annual pilgrimage was upon us.
After having set up base at the Battery Park area for the past several years, this year we made home in a tony Chelsea hotel. And a new ritual was set for the film festival. Get up early, get ready and dressed, grab caffeine and sunrise munchies at one of the neighbourhood establishments and head to the Chelsea Bowties cinemas (in the midst of transition to Cinepolis properties) for the 9 AM first press screening. After making agonizing decisions during the rest of the morning regarding which screenings to catch of the several that were concurrently showing, we typically made our way through four films. Then a bite to eat. Or an early dinner at a strongly recommended restaurant (Paowalla, how you filled us up!). Or a meet up with friends. Then a sundown film screening. After which we returned back sated with all manner of cinematic memories bouncing in our heads. And recorded a podcast in which we discussed all the films we had watched cumulatively amongst the three of us. And Joe, the good man, edited and published the podcast the same night.
After five days of this routine, we got bleary-eyed, as the accumulation of ever more films danced around in our brains. But it was the best kind of exhaustion for us, the kind that comes from watching too many films. As if there is such a thing as “too many movies”.
Before we knew it, it was time to head back to the West Coast. With another deposit to our Tribeca Film Festival memory bank. And ready and eager to back for #tribeca2018. And this year, we had seen 34 films amongst the three of us! It is the most films we have covered at Tribeca to date, and hope to best that tally next year.
So herewith is a full listing of all 34 films we covered at #tribeca2017. These films were all discussed on our five ‘live from New York’ podcasts devoted to the festival. But before the full alphabetical listing of the films we covered, here are the top festival favourites from each of us:
Joe’s Top Three Films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
ALPHAGO
A RIVER BELOW
ROCK’N ROLL
Rashmi’s Top Three Films at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
GET ME ROGER STONE
ROCK’N ROLL
KING OF PEKING
Yazdi’s Top Three Films from the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
PERMISSION
PILGRIMAGE
SWEET VIRGINIA
And here is a full alphabetical listing of the films we watched at #Tribeca2017 with links to the Tribeca film descriptions as well as to the specific podcast where each film was discussed:
- A RIVER BELOW, at 24:50 min, Day 3 podcast – Joe’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- ABUNDANT ACREAGE AVAILABLE, at 11:00 min, Day 1 podcast
- ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM, at 18:57 min, Day 4 podcast
- ALPHAGO, at 29:21 min, Day 2 podcast – Joe’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR STORY , at 29:09 min, Day 4 podcast
- COPWATCH, at 12:14 min, Day 4 podcast
- FLAMES, at 29:44 min, Day 1 podcast
- FLOWER, at 44:01 min, Day 1 podcast
- FRANK SERPICO, at 3:42 min, Day 4 podcast
- GENIUS (television pilot), at 15:58 min, Day 1 podcast
- GET ME ROGER STONE, at 7:45 min, Day 4 podcast– Rashmi’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- HOLY AIR, at 20:18 min, Day 1 podcast
- HOUSE OF Z, at 30:54 min, Day 3 podcast
- KEEP THE CHANGE, at 36:33 min, Day 1 podcast
- KING OF PEKING, at 25:42 min, Day 1 podcast – Rashmi’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- LITERALLY, RIGHT BEFORE AARON, at 20:14 min, Day 3 podcast
- MY FRIEND DAHMER, at 8:10 min, Day 2 podcast
- ONE PERCENT MORE HUMID, at 12:13 min, Day 2 podcast
- PERMISSION, at 4:43 min, Day 3 podcast – Yazdi’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- ROCK’N ROLL, at 44:51 min, Day 3 podcast– Joe’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- PILGRIMAGE, at 38:53 min, Day 3 podcast – Yazdi’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- SHADOWMAN, at 23:57 min, Day 2 podcast
- SON OF SOFIA, at 46:25 min, Day 2 podcast
- SWEET VIRGINIA, at 17:31 min, Day 2 podcast – Yazdi’s Top Three Tribeca Pick
- THE BOY DOWNSTAIRS, at 24:24 min, Day 4 podcast
- THE CLAPPER, at 1:50 min, Day 4 podcast
- THE ENDLESS, at 41:09 min, Day 2 podcast
- THE HANDMAID’S TALE (television pilot), at 36:15 min, Day 2 podcast
- THE LAST ANIMALS, at 15:10 min, Day 3 podcast
- THE LOVERS, at 34:57 min, Day 3 podcast
- THIRST STREET, at 2:07 min, Day 2 podcast
- THUMPER, at 6:02 min, Day 1 podcast
- SAMBA, at 2:54 min, Day 1 podcast
- TILT, at 13:05 min, Day 3 podcast
Until next year, goodbye Tribeca!
Full listing of 2016 Tribeca Film Festival Coverage
What joy it was to watch film after film at the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival #Tribeca 2016. Sometimes five, six films in a day. We were happy as pigs in mud. Rolling around in the excellently curated selections at the festival. Our third consecutive year covering Tribeca proved a dizzying blast as between the three of us, we saw 27 films in four days at the festival. These films were all discussed on our five ‘live from New York’ podcasts devoted to the festival.
Here is a full alphabetical listing of the films we watched at #Tribeca2016, with links to the podcast where each film was discussed:
- AFTER SPRING, at 31:06 min, Day 2 podcast
- AWOL, at 12:38 min, Day 3 podcast
- BAD RAP, at 10:10 min, Day 5 podcast
- THE BANKSY JOB, at 2:03 min, Day 5 podcast
- DETOUR, at 5:45 min, Day 4 podcast
- THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA, at 1:45 min, Day 2 podcast
- DO NOT RESIST, at 7:27 min, Day 2 podcast
- DON’T LOOK DOWN, at 25:20 min, Day 2 podcast
- ENLIGHTEN US: THE RISE AND FALL OF JAMES ARTHUR RAY, at 28:56 min, Day 5 podcast
- THE FAMILY FANG, at 14:40 min, Day 1 podcast
- THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY at 4:30 min, Day 1 podcast
- HERE ALONE, at 30:17 min, Day 3 podcast
- HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM, at 11:14 min, Day 4 podcast
- HUNT FOR THE WILDERPEOPLE, at 27:59 min, Day 1 podcast
- I’LL SLEEP WHEN I’M DEAD, at 24:00 min, Day 3 podcast
- JEREMIAH TOWER: THE LAST MAGNIFICENT, at 24:54 min, Day 5 podcast
- KEEP QUIET, at 12:34 min, Day 2 podcast
- LITTLE BOXES, at 33:57 min, Day 3 podcast
- LIVE CARGO, at 9:16 min, Day 3 podcast
- THE LONER, at 17:20 min, Day 5 podcast
- THE MEDDLER, at 4:48 min, Day 1 podcast
- MOTHER (EMA), at 21:58 min, Day 1 podcast
- PARENTS (FORAELDRE), at 19:12 min, Day 3 podcast
- PISTOL SHRIMPS, at 18:45 min, Day 2 podcast
- SHADOW WORLD, at 15:24 min, Day 4 podcast
- WOMEN WHO KILL, at 2:00 min, Day 3 podcast
- YOUTH IN OREGON, at 1:20 min, Day 4 podcast
Until next year, goodbye Tribeca.
Episode 239 – How to Train Your Dragon 2 / The Grand Seduction
In this Episode of Moviewallas we talk about:
– How to Train Your Dragon 2
– The Grand Seduction
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Episode 234 – Los Angeles Film Festival Live – Podcast #2 (#LAFilmFest)
Another Podcast from LA Film Festival. In today’s show we discuss the movies:
Walking Under Water |
![]() (Germany, Poland, United Kingdom, 2014, 77 mins, DCP)
In Badjao with English subtitles US Premiere
Directed By: Eliza Kubarska Screenwriter: Eliza Kubarska
Producer: Monika Braid Cinematographer: Piotr Rosolowski Editor: Bartosz Pietras Featuring: Sari, Alexan Music: Michal Jacaszek |
Uncertain Terms |
![]() (USA, 2014, 74 mins, HDCam)
World Premiere
Directed By: Nathan Silver Screenwriters: Nathan Silver, Chloe Domont, Cody Stokes
Producers: Chloe Domont, Richard Peete, Josh Mandel Cinematographer: Cody Stokes Editor: Cody Stokes Music: The Blair Brothers, Khia Cast: India Menuez, David Dahlbom, Caitlin Mehner, Tallie Medel, Gina Piersanti, Hannah Gross, Adinah Dancyger, Cindy Silver |
Meet the Patels |
![]() (India, USA, 2014, 88 mins, DCP)
In English, Gujarati, and Hindi with English subtitles US Premiere
Directed By: Geeta V. Patel, Ravi V. Patel Screenwriters: Ravi V. Petal, Geeta V. Patel, Billy McMillin, Matthew Hamachek
Producers: Janet Eckholm, Geeta V. Patel Executive Producers: Geralyn White Dreyfous, Dan Cogan Cinematographer: Geeta V. Patel Editors: Billy McMillin, Matthew Hamacheck, Geeta V. Patel, Ravi V. Patel Music Supervisor: Brooke Wentz Featuring: Ravi V. Patel, Vasant K. Patel, Champa V. Patel |
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OUT OF THE FURNACE | Review
OUT OF THE FURNACE is a well-made film. I respect its discipline and its hard-working craft. But I cannot abide by what it represents.
And what it represents is another one of those Americana tales that is going for the mythic by way of violence. It is achingly blue-collar – with the collar so scuffed with the dirt and grime of hard-working, economically hurting Americans that it might as well be brown-collar.
Christian Bale plays older brother Russell in the economically frayed industrial Northeast. He is trying to curtail Rodney his more impetuous sibling (played by Casey Affleck), who has just returned from a war deployment and is getting involved with backwoods criminals in an effort to earn some money. Soon upon return from jail after serving time for an accidental killing, Russell finds his brother missing. And has to deliberate on options for trying to find Rodney.
There is much to appreciate about the film’s commentary on many things. About how there is dignity in the lives of those working hard, to get by. By working in mills, by taking care of aging parents, by going off to fight the country’s wars, by taking ownership of honest but no less irreversibly harmful mistakes. The movie does a fine job of conveying the nobility of its characters. It is hard to do this without patronizing, and the film and its amazing actors manage to reflect these lives with remarkable authenticity.
But then why soil this hard-won authenticity with savage violence. The film begins and ends with violence as horror. And then in the middle tries to find poetry in revenge. And it is this poetry in revenge that I couldn’t bring myself to buy. What is this film saying? That there are monstrous people in the world and the only way to deal with them is by retaliatory blood-letting?
I know the film is not trying to deliberately do so, but in this grim, acutely considered American tale about the degradation resulting from violence, the film instead reveals its own unhealthy fascination for violence. People are killed off ruthlessly – and quickly – leaving one wondering as to what this director was aiming for? To make the point that this happens in real life? Maybe so, but why should this make for good cinema?
I have tremendous appreciation for Christian Bale who completely possesses this role. Here again is reason, if you ever needed one, that Bale is best in class amongst his generation of actors. And for Casey Affleck, who is turning in consistently believable, complex turns in film after film these days. And Woody Harrelson who makes you look away in fear every time he is on screen, which is saying something considering his more recent filmography of scary bad men. There is a scene halfway through the film where Christian Bale reaches out to Zoe Saldana in a park, hoping to win back her love. It is spare, and beautifully written and sublimely acted, especially by Bale. He breaks your heart. I wish the film had towed more closely to these characters and their lives as its reason for being.
Rare is the film that touches upon so many contemporary American issues. Including how we do not seem to have a place of stability, or even dignity, for soldiers returning from war. The situation created with Bale’s character getting involved in a car accident that results in fatalities is handled with uncommon deft; how often have you see a film delve into the resultant hopeless and crippling guilt. There is so much to be said with these players in this setting. It is disappointing then that the film chooses instead in its final act to settle for being a grotesque revenge tale.
Scott Cooper, the director made his debut helming CRAZY HEART a few years ago, and that film too was about a weathered, beaten character who is trying to claw out of the hell of his addictions and failings. But that film was ultimately about redemption and so found grace in its final notes. There will be those who fill find grace in the final notes of OUT OF THE FURNACE too. I am just not one who can get behind a validation, no matter how genuine, no matter how to the bone and unadorned as it may be, but a validation no less for an-eye-for-an-eye.
Episode 214 – The Hunger Games: Catching Fire / The Broken Circle Breakdown
It’s Episode 214 of Moviewallas! In this episode we discuss:
– The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
– The Broken Circle Breakdown
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