The 12th annual Tribeca Film Festival will feature everything from Will Forte’s dramatic film debut to a tale of arctic cowboys herding reindeer.
The New York festival on Tuesday announced 46 of the 89 feature films that will make up this year’s lineup. The films include those in competition at Tribeca, in both narrative and documentary categories, as well as those in its out-of-competition “Viewpoints” section that highlights unique perspectives.
This year’s slate, culled from more than 6,000 submissions, is the typical grab bag of American independent films, issue-driven documentaries and international curiosities that customarily populate the Tribeca Film Festival’s downtown screens for two weeks every spring.
Lance Edmands’ “Bluebird” will open the narrative competition with a drama about a Maine logging town, starring Amy Morton, Adam Driver of “Girls,” John Slattery and Margo Martindale. Also in the category is a romantic drama from “Sherrybaby” director Laurie Collyer. “Sunlight Jr.” stars Naomi Watts as a convenience store employee in love with a paraplegic played by Matt Dillon.
The documentary competition will be led off by Rachel Boynton’s “Big Men,” an expose on oil companies in Africa. Brad Pitt is among the producers. Also in competition is the documentary “Red Obsession,” narrated by Russell Crowe, about the ramifications of China’s appetite for Bordeaux wine.
Other documentaries tackle such fearsome subjects as frigid reindeer herding (“Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys”), the rise of teenagers in American society (“Teenage”), OxyContin addiction in West Virginia (“Oxyana”) and the Austrian director Michael Haneke (“Michael H. Profession: Director”).
Playing in “Viewpoints” will be Steph Green’s “Run and Jump.” It features Forte, the former “Saturday Night Live” cast member, in a drama about a family in Ireland struggling after the husband suffers a stroke.
Other entries include a documentary on same-sex couples (“Bridegroom”), a bird-watching comedy with Ben Kingsley (“A Birder’s Guide to Everything”), a New York street performance documentary (“Flex Is Kings”) and a mental hospital drama starring Jennifer Jason Leigh (“The Moment”).
The Tribeca Film Festival runs April 17 through April 28. The festival earlier announced its opening night film as the documentary “Mistaken for Strangers” about the Brooklyn rock band the National, which will perform at the premiere, as well.
The festival will announce the other half of its lineup Wednesday.
Daniel Craig Embraced Openness For Role In Director Luca Guadagnino’s “Queer”
Daniel Craig is sitting in the restaurant of the Carlyle Hotel talking about how easy it can be to close yourself off to new experiences.
"We get older and maybe out of fear, we want to control the way we are in our lives. And I think it's sort of the enemy of art," Craig says. "You have to push against it. Whether you have success or not is irrelevant, but you have to try to push against it."
Craig, relaxed and unshaven, has the look of someone who has freed himself of a too snug tuxedo. Part of the abiding tension of his tenure as James Bond was this evident wrestling with the constraints that came along with it. Any such strains, though, would seem now to be completely out the window.
Since exiting that role, Craig, 56, has seemed eager to push himself in new directions. He performed "Macbeth" on Broadway. His drawling detective Benoit Blanc ("Halle Berry!") stole the show in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery." And now, Craig gives arguably his most transformative performance as the William S. Burroughs avatar Lee in Luca Guadagnino's tender tale of love and longing in postwar Mexico City, "Queer."
Since the movie's Venice Film Festival premiere, it's been one of the fall's most talked about performances — for its explicit sex scenes, for its vulnerability and for its extremely un-007-ness.
"The role, they say, must have been a challenge or 'You're so brave to do this,'" Craig said in a recent interview alongside Guadagnino. "I kind of go, 'Eh, not really.' It's why I get up in the morning."
In "Queer," which A24 releases Wednesday in theaters, Craig again plays a well-traveled, sharply dressed, cocktail-drinking man. But the similarities with his most famous role stop there. Lee is an American expat living in 1950s... Read More