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Tribeca Festival

2011

Toni Collette and Michael Sheen in Jesus Henry Christ
Toni Collette and Michael Sheen in Jesus Henry Christ

Celebrating its 10th year, Tribeca Film Festival has announced a streamlining of it's sections, to feature a new Viewpoints strand, while jettisoning its Encounters and Discovery showcases.

The competition and Viewpoints films have been announced, with the other out-of-competition sections and short films coming soon. The festival will run from April 20 to May 1. It will open a free world premiere screening of Cameron Crowe's The Union.

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  • Jiro Dreams of Sushi
    Review preview for Jiro Dreams of Sushi

    The film's gentle poetry conjures up flavours in the imagination.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A documentary following the 85 year old master sushi chef, Jiro Ono
  • The Trip
    Review preview for The Trip

    The Trip is a big costume drama without the costumes.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    A comic road trip through the north of England.
  • Love Hate Love
    Review preview for Love Hate Love

    All three families documented in this film are hands-on and very much involved in doing good without doing harm.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary charts the lives of three families torn apart by acts of terrorism.
  • Bully
    Review preview for Bully

    Hidden camera footage provides especially distressing evidence of the extent of the physical abuse.

    David Graham · 4 out of 5
    A documentary about some of the devastating effects of school bullying in the US.
  • L'Amour Fou
    Review preview for L'Amour Fou

    Our view, through Bergé's eyes, is that of the melancholic, someone who has the object of desire but has lost the object-cause of desire.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    Documentary charts the relationship between the fashion designer and his lover Pierre Bergé.
  • Let The Bullets Fly
    Review preview for Let The Bullets Fly

    Comedy aside, the story hinges on cunning plans and double bluffs that, when they work, are very effective indeed.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    Jiang Wen's rumbustious comedy-adventure, set in the 1920s, is an Eastern Western. Chow Yun-Fat, Ge You and Jiang himself star as the three unscrupulous men vying for control of Goose Town: fun performances, and lots of flying bullets.
  • A Matter Of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt
    Review preview for A Matter Of Taste: Serving Up Paul Liebrandt

    Director Sally Rowe does a great job with this human side, making a relatively inaccessible subject emotionally engaging and throroughly entertaining.

    James Benefield · 3 out of 5
    Documentary tracing a decade in the career of the British chef.
  • Revenge Of The Electric Car
    Review preview for Revenge Of The Electric Car

    The documentary is never dull due to the excellent pacing and editing.

    Paul Logan · 4 out of 5
    Documentary about the return of the electric car, which was once regarded as a dead technology.
  • She Monkeys
    Review preview for She Monkeys

    Aschan has chosen an austere, cold palette that reflects the cool calculations of Cassandra and Emma as they vie for dominance and she and her co-writer Josefine Adolfsson keep the scripting stripped down, so that the body language of the pair is as impor

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    An intense relationship of power-play develops between two girls on an equestrian acrobatics team.
  • The Swell Season
    Review preview for The Swell Season

    While the film may be monochrome, every colour of emotion is represented here, from elation in the creative process to anxiousness and disillusionment.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Documentary following the songwriters and stars of Once, after their triumphant Oscar win.

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