Matt Dentler reports from Tribeca in his blog:

So, yes, the rumors are true: last night was an insane evening of parties. How insane? So much so, that Associated Press reporter Christy Lemire filed a story today recounting it all. With my new camera, I thought I'd try to get a visual depiction of the night of a thousand parties.

Meanwhile, on his blog, Jared Moshe offers a tip on 'How not to get into a party'.

There are so many parties during the Tribeca Film Festival, you could literally spend an evening hopping from one to the next without seeing a single movie.
While it feels like there are more celebrations than ever before, organizers say the festival is simply better at publicizing them now, in its fourth year. "Like everything at our festival, I think things are happening organically for us," said Tribeca president Jennifer Maguire Isham. Christy Lemire reports for A.P.

Beyond the 250 movies screening at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival, some 50 or so private parties continue nightly at various bars, clubs and restaurants here in Manhattan. Its an overwhelming number of soirees that rivals the level of private events seen at festivals like Sundance or perhaps even Cannes, with some nights offering up to 10 private parties. Festival founders and local officials wanted this festival to generate downtown business, well much of that money is being spent on food and drinks, and a good portion of that income came on Friday night.

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At MoMA last night, guests celebrated alongside famous artwork, including Claude Monet's triptych Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond (1920).
[Photo by Eugene Hernandez/indieWIRE]

The 2005 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off last night, interestingly opening with a screening and party in Midtown rather than Lower Manhattan, and curiously ushering in TFF screenings that don't actually begin in earnest until Friday. Despite that, guests' spirits were high -- even if their reviews of the opening movie were mixed -- at Tuesday's screenings of Sydney Pollack's "The Interpreter", followed by a lavish, lively party at The Museum of Modern Art.

[Tribeca daily dispatch by Eugene Hernandez]

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