by Ellen Johnson | Jul 14, 2017 | Culture, Movies
Today is July 14, also known as “la Fête nationale” in France. This recognition of the turning point in the French Revolution is called Bastille Day in English-speaking countries, and it’s an excuse to celebrate all things Francophile. In what feels...
by Ellen Johnson | Jun 19, 2017 | Culture, Movies
In Hollywood they say if you are on time you are late. I am forty minutes early but might as well be ten late. When I walk in the studio where I am supposed to meet the players and makers of the movie “The Clapper,” the other writer has already taken the...
by Ellen Johnson | Jun 6, 2017 | Culture, Events, Movies, Uncategorized
Amit Masurkar “I’m not here to seek your votes.” A fat man festooned in bright orange garlands proclaims to the crowd gathered bellow the carnival-float podium he rode in on. He’s just there to stand up for the people, and to take care of the children, he says....
by Alyssa Cook | May 31, 2017 | Culture, Events, Movies
Lower Manhattan is going to the movies this summer with a new free outdoor screening event. This Friday June 2, Westfield World Trade Center and Tribeca Enterprises will launch a new outdoor film series in Lower Manhattan that will take place outdoors by the beautiful...
by Eva Troester | May 18, 2017 | Culture, Movies
Dito Montiel has lived A Life. A member of several successful hardcore punk bands, author of two books, screenwriter and director whose filmography is in the double digits, both Shia LaBeouf and Robert Downey Jr. played him in a movie, and yet, the only way to find...
by Eva Troester | May 5, 2017 | Culture, Movies
Dispatches from the Tribeca Film Festival: A look through the lens of films to see ourselves in the other, and the other in ourselves. “It’s a little bit painful to watch at times, in the best way possible. It’s very gritty and raw”, Eliza Taylor tells me of her new...
