Enigmatic Photo of the Tribeca Screening Room

The 2019 Tribeca Film Festival Embargoed Pre-Screenings Are Over

The Festival Begins April 24, Ends May 5

I pre-screened YOU DON’T NOMI, THE DOG DOC, SCHEME BIRDS ROADS, DRIVEWAYS AND 17 BLOCKS.

17 BLOCKS: Emmanuel Sanford-Durant when he was 19

Now working on reviews for when the embargoes end.

So, what’s next?

2019 Tribeca Film Festival Highlights:

Opening + Closing

• World Premiere of the HBO Documentary Film The Apollo featuring interviews with artists including Patti LaBelle, Pharrell Williams, Smokey Robinson, and Jamie Foxx.
• World Premiere of Danny Boyle’s Yesterday

Films Not To Be Missed

• The Kill Team featuring Alexander Skarsgård and Nat Wolff
• Stray Doll featuring Cynthia Nixon
• Gully featuring Amber Heard and Charlie Plummer
• Standing Up, Falling Down featuring Billy Crystal
• Come to Daddy featuring Elijah Wood
• Good Posture featuring Emily Mortimer
• Only featuring Freida Pinto and Leslie Odom Jr.
• Georgetown featuring Annette Bening and directed by Christoph Waltz
• Framing John DeLorean featuring Alec Baldwin
• Dreamland produced by Margot Robbie
• Buffaloed produced by Zoey Deutch
• Plus One executive produced by Ben Stiller
• After Parkland
• XY Chelsea featuring Chelsea Manning
• At The Heart of Gold which discusses the abuse taking place inside the world of USA gymnastics
• The Good, The Bad, The Hungry — ESPN Gala

Anniversary Screenings — Film

• Apocalypse Now: Final Cut, Francis Ford Coppola’s never-before-seen 4K restored version
• 30th Anniversary screening event of Say Anything… with Cameron Crowe and his Say Anything… cast.
• 25th Anniversary event of Reality Bites with director Ben Stiller, writer Helen Childress, actors Ethan Hawke, Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn, and producers
• 35th Anniversary event of This Is Spinal Tap

Music Highlights

• Mystify: Michael Hutchence about the lead singer of legendary rock band INXS
• Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice with Sheryl Crow performing following the premiere
• Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
• Musicians from The Rolling Stones, Sublime, and Blind Melon
• Gala — World Premiere of the doc Between Me and My Mind about Phish Lead Singer Trey Anastasio, followed by a performance from Trey Anastasio Band

TV Highlights

• Tuca & Bertie
• The Simpsons 30th Anniversary

Tribeca Talks Highlights

• 10 Years of 30 for 30
• Directors Series Guillermo Del Toro and Alec Baldwin
• Storytellers Michael J. Fox with Denis Leary
• Storytellers Questlove with Boots Riley
• Storytellers Rashida Jones
• Sarah Silverman with Mike Birbiglia

Tribeca Immersive Virtual Arcade Highlights

War Remains (World Premiere) — USA

• Project Creator: Dan Carlin, MWM Immersive
  Key Collaborators: Brandon Oldenburg, Ethan Stearns, Flight School Studio, Skywalker Sound
• Podcast legend Dan Carlin employs the unique power of virtual reality to transport audiences into one of the most extreme battlefields in history — the Western Front of The First World War.

Where There’s Smoke (World Premiere) — USA

• Project Creator: Lance Weiler
• Key Collaborators: Peter English, Julia Pontecorvo, Dale Worstall
• Where There’s Smoke mixes documentary, immersive theater, and an escape room to explore memory and loss. Set within the aftermath of a blaze, participants work to determine the cause of a tragic fire by sifting through the charred remains. This two-part experience begins at the Virtual Arcade and concludes at 359 Canal Street

That’s it for today.