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Tribeca Festival · 2021

Tribeca Festival 2021

Reunion Screenings

Programme

5 films · 3 reviews

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Fargo

Review preview for Fargo

Either the Coens have no conception of reality, or the people they write about lost the place half way between there and here.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
A cocked up kidnap leads to mayhem and murder.

(Country: US; Year: 1996; Director: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen; Writer: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen; Stars: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, William H Macy, Peter Stormare, John Carroll Lynch, Cliff Rakerd, Kristin Rudrüd, Harve Presnell, Tony Denman, Gary Houston, Sally Wingert, Kurt Schweickhardt, Larissa Kokernot)

Full review See: Frances McDormand tells Women in Motion it's time to seize moment and stop complaining.

25th anniversary screening

The Five Heartbeats

Five friends leave their neighborhood hoping to make it big with a new type of music - Motown

(Country: US; Year: 1991; Director: Robert Townsend; Writer: Robert Townsend, Keenen Ivory Wayans; Stars: Robert Townsend, Michael Wright, Leon, Harry Lennix, Tico Wells, Diahann Carroll, Harold Nicholas, Tressa Thomas)

30th anniversary screening

The Kid

Chaplin's Tramp raises an orphan he rescues from the streets.

(Country: US; Year: 1921; Director: Charles Chaplin; Writer: Charles Chaplin; Stars: Charles Chaplin, Carl Miller, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Albert Austin, Beulah Bains, Nellie Bly Baker, Henry Bergman, Edward Biby)

100th anniversary screening

Raging Bull

Review preview for Raging Bull

De Niro’s renowned devotion to the art of acting has never been so tested as it is here.

Robert Munro · 5 out of 5
An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring destroys his life outside it.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Martin Scorsese; Writer: Jake LaMotta, Joseph Carter, Peter Savage, Paul Schrader, Mardik Martin; Stars: Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci, Frank Vincent, Nicholas Colasanto, Theresa Saldana, Mario Gallo, Frank Adonis, Joseph Bono, Frank Topham, Lori Anne Flax, Charles Scorsese, Don Dunphy, Bill Hanrahan, Rita Bennett)

Full review See: Martin Scorsese talks at BAFTA life in pictures event

Restoration screening

The Royal Tenenbaums

Review preview for The Royal Tenenbaums

Stiller, Paltrow, Murray and Luke Wilson needn't have bothered. Their characters are stuck in ruts.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
A family of eccentric geniuses is shaken when their caddish estranged father re-appears in their lives.

(Country: US; Year: 2001; Director: Wes Anderson; Writer: Wes Anderson, Owen Wilson; Stars: Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Danny Glover, Bill Murray, Alec Baldwin, Seymour Cassel, Kumar Pallana)

Full review

20th anniversary screening