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Tribeca Festival · 2010

Tribeca Festival 2010

Encounters

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14 films · 2 reviews

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The Chameleon

When teenager Nicholas Barclay (Marc-André Grondin) mysteriously resurfaces after he went missing three years ago, his sister (Emilie De Ravin) and mother (Ellen Barkin) welcome him back with open arms, but a no-nonsense FBI agent (Famke Janssen) is out to prove he’s an impostor.

(Country: Canada, France; Year: 2010; Director: Jean-Paul Salomé; Writer: Natalie Carter, Jean-Paul Salomé; Stars: Ellen Barkin, Xavier Beauvois, Gabe Begneaud, Brett Beoubay, Kent Jude Bernard, Sean M. Blanchard, Allen Boudreaux, Andrew Breland, Nick Chinlund, Emilie de Ravin, James DuMont, J.D. Evermore, Josh Gates, Brian Geraghty, Marc-André Grondin)

World Premiere

Climate Of Change

A group of 13-year-olds in India rally against the use of plastics. A renaissance man in Africa teaches villagers to harness solar power. Self-described “hillbillies” in Appalachia battle the big business behind strip mining. Documentary about a world of regular people taking action in the fight to save our environment.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Brian Hill; Writer: Simon Armitage; Stars: Narrated by Tilda Swinton)

North American Premiere

Every Day

Meet Ned: his live-in father-in-law is putting serious strains on Ned’s marriage. He’s having a hard time adjusting to raising an independent teenager. His job as a TV writer is unfulfilling, and late nights with a sexy coworker are only complicating matters…

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Richard Levine; Writer: Richard Levine; Stars: Carla Gugino, Liev Schreiber, Helen Hunt, Eddie Izzard, Brian Dennehy, Ezra Miller, David Harbour, Benita Robledo, Chris Beetem, Tilky Jones, Skyler Fortgang, Bianca Giancoli, Daniel Yelsky, Albert M. Chan, Sabrina Hahn)

World Premiere

Last Play At Shea

The intersecting histories of a stadium, a team, and a music legend are examined in a documentary that charts the ups and downs of the New York Mets and the life and career of Long Island native Billy Joel, the last performer to play Shea Stadium.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Jon Small, Greg Whiteley; Stars: Billy Joel)

World Premiere

Meet Monica Velour

Review preview for Meet Monica Velour

Fails to do anything that hasn’t been done before or better.

Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
A young dork seizes the chance of a lifetime to meet the former porn star he idolises.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Keith Bearden; Writer: Keith Bearden; Stars: Kim Cattrall, Dustin Ingram, Brian Dennehy, Keith David, Jee Young Han, Daniel Yelsky, Jamie Tisdale, Jay Malack, Tony Cox, Sam McMurray, Lauren Mae Shafer, Tevis R. Marcum, Elizabeth Wright Shapiro, Peter Carey, Kojo Asiedu)

Full review

World Premiere

Monogamy

Brooklyn wedding photographer Theo’s (Chris Messina) side business taking surveillance-style photos of clients on the sly takes an unexpected turn - and creates a rift with his fiancée.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Dana Adam Shapiro; Writer: Dana Adam Shapiro, Evan M. Wiener; Stars: Chris Messina, Rashida Jones, Meital Dohan, Zak Orth, Ivan Martin, Madison Arnold, Sarah Burns, Paul Diomede, Hannah Gilli, Neal Huff, Adam Pally, Mason Pettit, Samantha Sherman, Gil Rogers, Emily Tremaine)

World Premiere

My Trip To Al-Qaeda

Chronicling fundamentalist Islam’s rise to power and exploring Lawrence Wright’s struggle to maintain his objectivity as a journalist writing about Islamic terror.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Alex Gibney; Writer: Lawrence Wright; Stars: Lawrence Wright)

World Premiere

Nice Guy Johnny

Baby-faced 24-year-old Johnny Rizzo is about to trade his dream job in talk radio for some snoozeville gig that’ll pay enough to please his fiancée. Enter Uncle Terry (Burns), a rascally womanizer set on turning a day in the Hamptons into an eye-opening fling for his nephew. Nice guy Johnny’s not interested, of course, but then he meets Brooke…

(Year: 2010; Director: Edward Burns; Writer: Edward Burns; Stars: Edward Burns)

World and TFF Virtual Premiere

RUSH: Beyond the Lighted Stage

Documentary charts the career of the rock trio.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2010; Director: Scot McFadyen, Sam Dunn)

World Premiere

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

Review preview for Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

As the film progresses through bouts of selfishness and success, you learn to dislike him more.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
The life and wild times of Ian Dury - pop singer, artist, hell raiser.

(Country: UK; Year: 2010; Director: Mat Whitecross; Writer: Paul Viragh; Stars: Andy Serkis, Ray Winstone, Naomie Harris, Olivia Williams, Luke Evans, Mackenzie Crook, Toby Jones, Wesley Nelson) , Official site

Full review

North American Premiere

The Space Between

Lonely flight attendant Montine McLeod (Melissa Leo) becomes responsible for a 10-year-old Pakistani-American boy traveling solo when news of the 9/11 attacks grounds their flight in Texas. After learning the boy’s father works in the World Trade Center, McLeod musters the compassion she could never afford her own family, and the two embark on a heartrending road trip to meet an uncertain future in New York City.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Travis Fine; Writer: Travis Fine; Stars: Melissa Leo, Anthony Keyvan, Brad William Henke, AnnaSophia Robb, Phillip Rhys, Sayed Badreya, Kyle Bornheimer, Ntare Mwine, Hunter Parrish, Kelli Williams, Brett Cullen, Nate Hartley, Tim Bagley, Audrey Wasilewski, Don Franklin)

World Premiere

Tetsuo: The Bullet Man

More than 20 years after he used 16mm to prove himself worthy of a cult following with Tetsuo, The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto is back with another frenetic, hyperbolic experience. This slick, modernized third installation of the Tetsuo series—shown here in the final director's cut for the first time - continues to challenge ideas of man and machine… and the trouble that ensues when the two become one.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2009; Director: Shinya Tsukamoto; Writer: Shinya Tsukamoto, Hisakatsu Kuroki; Stars: Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Yûko Nakamura, Stephen Sarrazin, Tiger Charlie Gerhardt, Prakhar Jain, Shinya Tsukamoto, Michael Duncan, Alan Koji, Sou Fujita, Markus Wambsganss, Hajime Izuki, Dwayne Lawler, Aldo La Riviere, Yutaka Mishima) , Official site

North American Premiere

Vidal Sassoon The Movie

This fun, fast-paced documentary traces with the life of a self-made man whose passion and perseverance took him from a Jewish orphanage in London to the absolute pinnacle of his craft.

(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Craig Teper)

World Premiere

Visionaries

Chuck Workman brings alive the vibrant history of the avant-garde cinema. Through interviews with filmmakers and critics including Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, Su Friedrich, and Amy Taubin, he reveals how this artistic movement highlights subjective vision, sensory experience, and dreams over plot and storyline.

(Country: US; Year: 2009; Director: Chuck Workman; Stars: Jonas Mekas)

World Premiere