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Alan Cumming on "Any Day Now" and Queer Complacency
- By Austin Dale
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- April 26, 2012 2:48 PM
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Alan Cumming was famous (and out) for quite a while now, but it's been a while since he's been front and center. "Any Day Now," playing this week at the Tribeca Film Festival, is a subtle, simple showcase. It's the story of a mismatched gay couple in the 70's who find themselves taking care of a child with Down's Syndrome and fighting for their parental rights, fighting institutionalized and socialized homophobia. This decades-old screenplay finally hits the screen with style, humor, and heartache.
Something that is starting to change in movies is that we're seeing more actors coming out than ever before, and suddenly we're seeing more gay stories being told. In the past, you know, it was always a straight celebrity getting acclaim for playing gay and being risky.
Get Into My Head: Thoughts I Had While Watching James Franco in 'Francophrenia'
- By Bryce J. Renninger
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- April 26, 2012 12:38 AM
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If you have the chance to see James Franco's new film (co-directed by Franco and Ian Olds), "Francophrenia (or: Don't Kill Me, I Know Where the Baby Is") at this week's Tribeca Film Festival, please do...So long as you don't think you'd mind staring at Franco, mostly silent, pensive, with a running voiceover of his inner thoughts while shooting the finale to his infamous run on "General Hospital." If you're up for it, there's still three screenings left.
I Heart "Take This Waltz"
- By Peter Knegt
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- April 25, 2012 10:37 AM
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After debuting at the Toronto Film Festival last fall, Sarah Polley's "Take This Waltz" had its US premiere at Tribeca this Sunday. Highly anticipated after Polley's acclaimed directorial debut "Away From Her," the film was intially met with a considerably more mixed response. And now having seen it, I get why. The film is clearly far from perfect. Some scenes feel very out of place and unnecessary. The tone is uneven. The dialogue occasionally overwritten.
Notes From Tribeca's Women's Filmmaker Brunch
- By Alison Willmore
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- April 25, 2012 10:08 AM
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Since only women were allowed to attend, Indiewire TV Editor Alison Willmore graciously attended the Women's Filmmaker Brunch on behalf The Lost Boys. Though we clearly need a few lost girls soon.
The 2012 Nashville Film Festival Award Winners
- By Brad Horvath
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- April 25, 2012 9:06 AM
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The Nashville Film Festival (NaFF) announced the award winners for this year’s festival at a luncheon in the festival’s Liberty Tent this morning. Matthew Gordon’s The Dynamiter, the story of a troubled 14-year-old boy who comes to realize what truly matters to him, won the Narrative Competition Grand Jury Prize and David Fine’s Salaam Dunk, a profile of the joys and challenges experienced by the American University of Iraq’s women’s basketball team, won the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Prize.
Gleeks Mob Chris Colfer's "Struck By Lightning" Apple Store Talk
- By Austin Dale
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- April 24, 2012 3:35 PM
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Sunday afternoon, on the heels of the successful premiere of his screenwriting debut "Struck By Lightning," Chris Colfer hit the 14th Street Apple Store for an Apple Talk. The Tribeca Film Festival was hit with an orgiastic explosion of Gleek fandom. Teenage girls came out with forceful freakage, shrieking with joy over a boy they really, really, really stand no chance with.
The six other notables on the panel shared exactly none of Chris's spotlight, but let's be serious. Who really wants to deal with five hundred screeching girls everywhere they go? I only sat in the audience surrounded by it, and I can only imagine how exhausting this must be for poor Chris. Whenever any of the other panel members made even the slighest reference to him or Glee, the Gleek Chorus responded with deafening Awws and Oohs. The girls cried, brought him gifts and pestered security for hugs. And this is not to mention the blatant repeated violation of the flash photography rules.
The panel filled out with actors Polly Bergen, Roberto Acuire, Carter Jenkins, Allie Grant, and director Brian Dannelly. Aside from the hubbub, the panel did provide plenty of insight into the making of Tribeca's biggest surprise hit.
Watch Jason Bateman, Will Arnett and Morgan Spurlock at the Hilarious Tribeca Talk For "Mansome"
- By Peter Knegt
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- April 24, 2012 11:49 AM
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This weekend, Indiewire and Apple teamed up to host a genuinely uproarious panel featuring the folks behind Tribeca doc "Mansome": Will Arnett, Jason Bateman (via the internets!), Morgan Spurlock and Ben Silverman. They took the stage with IW's Dana Harris and the result was a significant amount of fun.
Apocalypse Now: The Unbearable Lightness of Being in the "Watch What Happens Live" Studio
- By Austin Dale
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- April 24, 2012 11:35 AM
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"Watch What Happens Live" is on the cutting edge of the craptastic. It is in the major leagues of mush. It is the créme de la crazy of the soulless slate of reality programming on Bravo. If TLC has become America's least grand freak show, the housewife-loaded Bravo (rebranded by producer-at-large and "WWHL" host Andy Cohen) is our most compulsively, shamefully watchable. "Watch What Happens Live" isn't even really programming; it is straight-up filler in which Cohen (hereafter referred to as the Angel of Death) makes small talk with celebrities both minor and less-minor and shows clips from his other shows. For an hour. And that's it. And it's live. And sometimes it's not even live.
Keanu Reeves: Digital Cinema Historian and Filmmaker? See For Yourself Tonight at Tribeca
- By Peter Knegt
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- April 24, 2012 10:29 AM
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Keanu Reeves: Digital cinema expert? Keanu Reeves, digital cinema historian?
Click 'Shift-X' on Tribeca's Website To Watch 'Damned'
- By The Lost Boys
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- April 23, 2012 6:57 PM
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Not at the Tribeca Film Festival? Got a spare 10 minutes? Then go to TribecaFilm.com and click "Shift" and "X" keys to watch Richard Phelan's "Damned," an adorable animated short about an overly ambitious beaver.
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