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Tribeca Reviews: “Broken Hill Blues” and “Beneath the Harvest Sky”, Two Tales of Adolescent Turmoil
Surviving adolescence can often feel like a fight against collapsing forces. In Kiruna, the small Arctic town that is the setting for the Swedish Broken Hill Blues, the ground is literally crumbling beneath the characters' feet.
The entire village is succum...
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Justin Zackham On The Universal Truth That Helped Him Write Romantic Comedy The Big Wedding
Hollywood rumor has it that Zackham wrote The Bucket List in two weeks, so when I got to interview the screenwriter -- and first-time director -- of course I had to ask how long The Big Wedding took. He laughed and said that reports of his speedy writing had b...
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Tribeca Review: Michael H. Profession: Director
B+
It's not until Michael H. Profession: Director is almost over that it becomes apparent exactly how well its approach is suited to its subject. Yves Montmayeur's documentary on the career and creative process of the celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Han...
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Tribeca Review: Taboor
B-
Vahid Vakilifar's Taboor is a film defined more by what's absent on screen than the images and sounds themselves. There's very little spoken text, and only one scene that might be dialogue rather than voiceover. It takes place in what appears to be a pos...
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Tribeca Review: Farah Goes Bang
There are a number of intriguing ideas in Meera Menon's first feature, Farah Goes Bang, although most of them struggle against this being very much A First Feature; there is an uneasy balance between the movie's heart being in the right place and pervasive tec...
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