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Tribeca Festival · 2017

Tribeca Festival 2017

Special Screenings

Event cinema with special discussions or performances before or after the film.

Programme

13 films · 3 reviews

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Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Review preview for Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Her life story plays out like an adventure novel overflowing with intrigue.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
A documentary about the celebrated actress and inventor.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Alexandra Dean; Writer: Alexandra Dean)

Full review See: Alexandra Dean in conversation on the woman who influenced Walt Disney's Snow White and inspired Mel Brooks's Hedley Lamarr and the making of Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story , Alexandra Dean in conversation on Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr Story

Blues Planet: Triptych

Explores the Gulf Oil Spill disaster and its aftermath through environmental artist Wyland who, along with 30 of today's pre-eminent artists, recorded a new genre of global blues on the catastrophe's anniversary.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Wyland; Writer: Wyland)

Chris Gethard: Career Suicide

One-man show sees comedian Chris Gethard dives deep into his own personal struggles with mental health issues.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Kimberly Senior; Writer: Chris Gethard)

Dare To Be Different

Featuring interviews and rare footage of U2, Blondie, Duran Duran, Joan Jett, The Cure, Billy Idol, and Depeche Mode, Dare to Be Different is a nostalgic look at WLIR 92.7, the radio station that introduced these bands to a US audience.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Ellen Goldfarb; Writer: Jay Reiss; Stars: Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Billy Idol, Thomas Dolby, Gary Dell'Abate, Curt Smith, Nick Rhodes, Jim Kerr, Fred Schneider, Chris Stein, Matt Pinfield, Howard Jones, Midge Ure, Lauren Roselli, Vince Clarke)

The Exception

A German soldier tasked with investigating exiled German Monarch Kaiser Wilhelm II, only to find himself drawn into an unexpected and passionate romance with mysterious housemaid Mieke.

(Country: UK; Year: 2016; Director: David Leveaux; Writer: Simon Burke; Stars: Lily James, Jai Courtney, Christopher Plummer, Janet McTeer, Eddie Marsan, Ben Daniels, Mark Dexter, Dean Constantin, Verona Verbakel, Alain Van Goethem, Lucas Tavernier, Martin Swabey, Daan Aufenacker, Jan Smekens, Tom Magnus)

From The Ashes

Captures Americans in communities across the country as they wrestle with the legacy of the coal industry and what its future should be under the Trump Administration.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Michael Bonfiglio)

House Of Z

Review preview for House Of Z

The film travels from Hip-Hop to humility, from red carpets, back to Posen's studies in London.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
Portrait of designer Zac Posen.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Sandy Chronopoulos; Writer: Sherien Barsoum, Sandy Chronopoulos; Stars: Paz de la Huerta, Naomi Campbell, Sean Combs, Zac Posen, Karen Elson, André Leon Talley, Lola Schnabel, Albertina Rizzo, Ken Downing, Robin Givhan, Christina Binkley, Heidi Hayden, Susan Posen, Alexandra Posen, Stephen Posen)

Full review See: Article about highlights of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival

Intent To Destroy

Review preview for Intent To Destroy

Berlinger has assembled an impressive parade of experts whose testimony is thorough and backed up by rare film footage and photographs from the time.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
A documentary about the fate of Armenians living in Turkey in the early 20th Century.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Joe Berlinger; Writer: Joe Berlinger, Cy Christiansen)

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Julian Schnabel: A Private Portrait

Portrait of the artist and director.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2017; Director: Pappi Corsicato; Writer: Pappi Corsicato)

Paris Can Wait (Bonjour Anne)

Long married to a successful but inattentive film producer, Anne is at a crossroads in her life. Enter Jacques, a French bon vivant, who offers to drive Anne from Cannes to Paris. What begins as an innocent favour quickly turns into an unexpectedly wandering road trip filled with fine cuisine and looming romance.

(Country: US; Year: 2016; Director: Eleanor Coppola; Writer: Eleanor Coppola; Stars: Diane Lane, Alec Baldwin, Arnaud Viard, Cédric Monnet)

The Public Image Is Rotten

Story of the provocative musician John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Tabbert Fiiller)

The Third Industrial Revolution

The global economy is in crisis. Economists warn that we face 20 more years of declining productivity, slow growth, rising unemployment, and steep inequality. And now, climate change is ravaging the planet. Where do we go from here?

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Oliver Ressler, Eddy Moretti)

Warning: This Drug May Kill You

An unflinching look at the devastating effects of opioid addiction in the U.S., profiling four families whose lives have been decimated by addictions that all began with legitimate prescriptions to dangerous painkillers.

(Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Perri Peltz)