Tribeca

Connie Butler of MoMA goes to Hammer Museum as new chief curator

2013-05-16 13:05:00

After more than a year-long search, the Hammer Museum has hired Connie Butler, currently the chief curator of drawings at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as its chief curator. She is leaving that position by July 1 in order to assume her L.A. post...

New York City secret photo exhibition: Art or invasion of privacy?

2013-05-17 07:40:00

Residents of a Tribeca apartment building are fuming over a new exhibition of photographs in which they star -- and which were taken without their knowledge. Some of the residents are considering legal action, the New York Post reported. The apartment...

Tribeca 2013: Will Forte runs and jumps (carefully) to a new phase

2013-04-27 10:19:00

NEW YORK--Will Forte takes a breath and measures his words carefully, as Will Forte is generally wont to do, when asked how a man known for comedy suddenly finds himself in some finely wrought prestige dramas. “It wasn't a conscious decision to...

Summer Movie Sneaks complete list

2013-04-28 00:00:00

The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...

Tribeca 2013: In 'Trials of Muhammad Ali,' a counterpoint to '42'

2013-04-29 10:18:00

NEW YORK--When a championship boxer like Muhammad Ali felt disrespected by another fighter, he might have been expected to do what most boxers would: knock his opponent's lights out. But the icon took a different route when faced with a rival he...

Tribeca 2013: 'Rocket,' 'Bridegroom' win fest's audience prizes

2013-04-27 18:20:00

NEW YORK -- Kim Mordaunt’s Laos-set tale “The Rocket” continued its stratospheric ride through the festival universe Saturday, picking up the audience award in the narrative category at the Tribeca Film Festival after previously...

Tribeca 2013: 'The Rocket,' 'Kill Team' among fest's top winners

2013-04-25 17:11:00

NEW YORK -- A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night. "The Rocket," the...

Tribeca 2013: In 'Tricked,' Paul Verhoeven turns fans into writers

2013-04-25 07:30:00

NEW YORK -- As Zach Braff and the people behind “Veronica Mars” could tell you, crowd sourcing isn’t a half-bad way to raise some money for a film. But can it enable new forms of creativity too? That's what the longtime Hollywood...

Tribeca 2013: 'Mad Men's' John Slattery takes an indie-film turn

2013-04-20 16:18:00

NEW YORK--As Roger Sterling on "Mad Men," John Slattery plays� it brash, slick and� debauched. But even a hard-drinking womanizer needs a break once in a� while. And so it was that Slattery found himself in Maine last year starring as Richard, a...

Personality drives this Tribeca Film Festival

2013-04-16 19:20:00

NEW YORK — In 11 previous editions, the Tribeca Film Festival has showcased dozens of glitzy studio productions and stars — Tobey Maguire and his "Spider-Man 3" crew rode into town in 2007, Tom Cruise opened "Mission: Impossible III" here in...

Reynolds, Marshall and McDowell to appear at TCM Film Festival

2013-04-17 14:22:00

TCM Classic Film Festival announced Wednesday that Burt Reynolds and Malcolm McDowell have been added to the roster at the four-day event, which takes place April 25-28 in Hollywood. Reynolds and director John Boorman will join previously announced...

Brooklyn Festival samples the new classical music of the borough

2013-04-14 09:00:00

BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Composer and French horn player Matt Marks, 33, has just completed writing a vocal and orchestral work for the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the biggest commission of his life, but this Sunday afternoon in March he's playing the ukulele...

Zoe Kazan and Jake Johnson star in "The Pretty One," a Tribeca Film festival offering that could win new fans farther on down the line.

2013-04-29 14:36:52

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2013-04-24 00:00:00

Celebrity internet cat Lil Bub attends the "Lil Bub And Friendz" Tribeca Drive-In Screening during the 2013 Tribeca Film Festiva in New York City.

2013-04-24 00:00:00