As the co-founders of the Tribeca Film Festival, we are thrilled to share our plans and recommendations for the coming week. This year’s TFF will display the enormous creativity of filmmakers, storytellers and artists from around the city and the world. As the late Roger Ebert would have said, we’ll see you at the movies. Read More
As the Tribeca Film Festival opened last night with Whatever Works, Woody Allen‘s new film starring comedian Larry David, the procession of talent filing into the Zeigfeld Theatre seemed to collectively decide that the safest thing to do, considering the masses of screaming passersby, overeager reporters, and elbow-grabbing publicists, was to get inside as Read More
There’s nothing like gallons of sweat to bring people closer, and so Allure magazine editor Linda Wells, film producer Jane Rosenthal, Fox 5 news anchor Rosanna Scotto and NBC CEO Jeff Zucker’s wife, Caryn, spin together at trendy Upper West Side gym Soul Cycle, which offers classes with names like Soul Survivor and Soul Burn. Read More
The Tribeca Film Festival kicks off its seventh year tonight at the Zeigfeld Theater with the big sparkly premiere of Baby Mama. The movie is about a single and successful businesswoman (Tina Fey) who hires a working-class woman (Amy Poehler) to be her surrogate. Can you believe we’ve gotten this far along in life without Read More
There will be 120 feature films screening at the Tribeca Film Festival between April 23 and May 4, among them the documentary Run for Your Life, about the origins of the New York City Marathon and its founder, Fred Lebow. “[The marathon] was about trying to bring everybody, all five boroughs, together,” said Jane Rosenthal, Read More
I’m a nervous wreck,” said Kevin Connolly, a mere four days before Gardener of Eden, his directorial debut, was to premiere at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival. The 33-year-old Entourage actor—he plays Eric, Vince’s good-boy manager—was chatting via cell phone from Los Angeles while driving back from church (truly). A comedic and moody genre-bending romp, Read More
It was only four days before the opening of the behemoth nine-day Tribeca Film Festival, and executive director Peter Scarlet confessed that he had only gotten three hours of sleep. Perched on the edge of a U-shaped booth at a downtown coffee shop right around the corner from the festival’s headquarters, Mr. Scarlet was almost Read More
Post-9/11 lower Manhattan may end up looking more like Hollywood than Wall Street.
Though many financial firms have scattered uptown or to New Jersey in the wake of the terrorist attacks, at least three local filmmaking concerns-including Robert De Niro’s Tribeca Film Center-are investigating how they can make New York’s movie business synonymous with lower Read More
If Hollywood is high school with money, Tribeca’s film industry is Dalton downtown: sophisticated, selective and a little spoiled. For over a decade, Jane Rosenthal, co-founder of Tribeca Productions, has been the head Heather of that extremely ambitious clique. She’s class president, student-council chief and head cheerleader of New York’s downtown movie business. But her Read More
