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20 Years of Romanian Cinema
23 hours ago
This weekend (December 4-6), the 4th Annual Romanian Film Festival in NYC will take place at Tribeca Cinemas. For a primer on New Romanian Cinema, Tff programmer Genna Terranova interviewed Mihai Chirilov, film critic and curator of the festival. Police, Adjective Genna Terranova: Please tell us about the festival's program this year. Why you have chosen to show both new and old Romanian films? Mihai Chirilov: This year, we have highlighted the best in show from the New Romanian Cinema: films screened/awarded in big festivals (Katalin Varga, Berlin Silver Bear winner; Hooked, which premiered in Venice); films that have a future U.S. distribution deal; great films that didn't make it to big festivals (Silent Wedding, a big hit in both Romania and France; The Other Irene); a good bunch of short films; and the Romanian submission in the foreign film category for the upcoming Academy Awards - Police, »
Watch: Serious Moonlight
30 November 2009 6:00 AM, PST
Note: This interview with Cheryl Hines was originally published as a Faces of the Festival piece during the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. We wanted to repost in time for Serious Moonlight's December theatrical release. Funny lady Cheryl Hines makes her debut as a director with the '09 Festival pick Serious Moonlight, a dark comedy about infidelity and commitment starring Meg Ryan, Timothy Hutton, and Kristen Bell. Filming a script by Adrienne Shelly (the writer/director of Waitress), Hines brings her impeccable comic timing to this ever-so-human mix of a romantic comedy. We got the comedienne on the phone to talk about the transition from acting to directing and lots more. Tribeca Film: What makes Serious Moonlight a Tribeca Must-See? Ch: The performances in the film are great, the story is fun to watch, and... I don't know! I'm not good at selling myself! You'll have a good time watching it, »
American Road Trip: Everybody's Fine
30 November 2009 5:15 AM, PST
In Everybody's Fine, the new adaptation of the 1990 Italian classic Stanno tutti bene (which starred Marcello Mastroianni), Frank Goode (Robert De Niro) is a newly-widowed retiree just trying to keep busy: gardening, vacuuming, doctor's appointments, grocery shopping... On a larger scale, he is trying to reconnect with his grown children (Drew Barrymore, Sam Rockwell, and Kate Beckinsale), and when they won't come to visit him, he sets out on a road trip - via Amtrak and Greyhound - traversing the same country across which he strung telephone lines for forty years. Writer/director Kirk Jones (Waking Ned Devine, Nanny McPhee) is a Brit, and though his vision seemed ripe for an American road movie, he knew he had to get the lay of the land before writing the script. Cue the cross-country trip, a la Frank himself: countless buses, trains, and cheap motels later, Jones knew he had found his inspiration. »
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