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Hagar Ben-Asher’s Dead Women Walking creates the opportunity for conversation and examination while humanizing those individuals that society has locked away without a further care or thought of.
Asghar Farhadi’s Everbody Knows is a melodrama that takes itself too seriously – one that pulls in each and every direction to try and find some thematic footing, and ends up not saying too much about anything.
As well as getting a chance to check out witty theatrical drama The Great Pretender at Tribecca Film Festival, Film Inquiry’s Kristy Strouse also got to speak to director Nathan Silver about his film.
Stephanie Archer gives a roundup of some of her experiences at Tribeca Film Festival, including a sci-fi, documentaries, shorts, and more.
Stephanie Archer reports on her time during Tribeca Film Festival 2018, and reviews the animated short films curated by Whoopi Goldberg.
David Fontana discusses four films directed by women that show transitional periods of life, from an adolescent teen to an immigrant mother attempting to make it in America.
Little Woods, the debut film by Nia DaCosta, had its premiere at this years Tribeca…
Both The Night Eats the World and Cargo, despite their differing subjects and approaches, manage to bring both meat and brains to the zombie film.
Both Phantom Cowboys and Island of the Hungry Ghosts are finely wrought documentaries which also touch on universal themes. Though taking place in isolated communities, they reflect on the struggle for happiness inherent in the human condition itself.
Premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, Justin P. Lange’s The Dark is an ingenious reinvention of the zombie genre, bringing a new rage monster to the cinematic screen and exhibiting what anger and fear truly is. This is a film you will not soon be forgetting.
Arlin Golden had the opportunity to speak with directors Julie Cohen & Betsy West, who created the beautiful biopic of the “Notorious RBG”, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
Kristy Strouse explored some of the VR experiences on offer at Tribeca Film Festival; here are her reviews of: Campfire Creepers: Midnight March, The Dinner Party, Biidaaban and Into the Now.
Straight from Tribeca Film Festival, Lee Jutton two films; both are the feature directorial debuts of talented women filmmakers and both center on complicated women trying to come to terms with tragedies in their pasts.
After its premiere at the Queens Short Film Festival, Film Inquiry’s Samantha Celentano got to speak to the writer and lead actor of Oatmeal, Martha Frances Williams, as well as the director Alessia Gatti.
The Party’s Just Beginning isn’t always fun, but it’s definitely a powerful vehicle for the very talented Karen Gillan.