The Tribeca Film Festival (TFF) which this runs form Wednesday 24th April through to Sunday 5th May is a prominent film festival held in the Tribeca neighbourhood of Manhattan, showcasing a diverse selection of independent films. Since its inaugural year in 2002, it has become a recognised outlet for independent filmmakers in all genres to release their work to a broad audience. The Tribeca Film Festival was founded by Jane Rosenthal (Film Producer), Robert De Niro (Film Actor, Producer and Director) and Craig Hatkoff (Real Estate Investor and Philanthropist), reportedly in response to the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Centre and the consequent loss of vitality in the Tribeca neighbourhood in Lower Manhattan, although there are reports that its founding was underway prior to the events of 9/11. From its humble beginnings, the festival now draws an estimated three million people, including often-elusive celebrities from the worlds of art, film, and music and generates US$600M annually.Amongst the top picks of this years feature length screenings, are :-
* 'BUFFALOED' - Directed by Tanya Wexler and starring Zoey Deutch, Judy Greer, Jermaine Fowler and Jai Courtney.* 'CHARLIE SAYS' - Directed by Mary Harrow and starring Matt Smith, Suki Waterhouse, Hannah Murray, Sosie Bacon and Marianne Rendon.
* 'COME TO DADDY' - Directed by Ant Timpson and starring Elijah Wood.
* 'CROWN VIC' - Directed by Joel Souza and starring Thomas Jane and Luke Kleintank.
* 'DREAMLAND' - Directed by Miles Joris-Peyrafitte and starring Margot Robbie, Finn Cole, Travis Fimmel, Kerry Condon and Garrett Hedlund.
* 'EXTREMELY WICKED, SHOCKINGLY EVIL AND VILE' - Directed by Joe Berlinger and starring Zac Efron, Lily Collins, Haley Joel Osment, Kaya Scodelario, Jeffrey Donovan and John Malkovich.
* 'GEORGETOWN' - Directed by Christoph Waltz and starring Christoph Waltz, Annette Bening, Vanessa Redgrave and Corey Hawkins.
* 'IN FABRIC' - Directed by Peter Strickland and starring Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, Steve Oram and Gwendoline Christie.* 'THE KILL TEAM' - Directed by Dan Krauss and starring Nat Wolff, Alexander Skarsgård and Adam Long.
* 'LOST TRANSMISSIONS' - Directed by Katharine O'Brien and starring Simon Pegg and Juno Temple.
* 'LUCE' - Directed by Julius Onah and starring Kelvin Harrison Jnr., Tim Roth, Naomi Watts and Octavia Spencer.
* 'ONLY' - Directed by Takashi Doscher and starring Frieda Pinto, Leslie Odom Jnr. and Chandler Riggs.
* 'THE PLACE OF NO WORDS' - Directed by Mark Webber and starring Mark Webber, Teresa Palmer, Bodhi Palmer, Eric Olsen, Sarah Wright Olsen and Phoebe Tonkin.
* 'SKIN' - Directed by Guy Nattiv and starring Jamie Bell, Danielle Macdonald, Daniel Henshall, Bill Camp, Mike Colter, Mary Stuart Masterson and Vera Farmiga.
* 'STANDING UP, FALLING DOWN' - Directed by Matt Ratner and starring Billy Crystal, Ben Schwartz, Eloise Mumford and Kevin Dunn.* 'TWO/ONE' - Directed by Juan Cabral and starring Boyd Holbrook, Song Ang and Beau Bridges.
* 'WHITE AS SNOW' - Directed by Anne Fontaine and starring Lou de Laage and Isabelle Huppert.
* 'YESTERDAY' - Directed by Danny Boyle and starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, and Ed Sheeran.
You can visit the official website for much greater detail on all the films and entertainment featured in this years festival, commencing this week, at : https://www.tribecafilm.com/
This week then to tempt you out to your local Odeon we have seven new release movies, kicking off with what is probably the most keenly awaited film of the year that sees the culmination of eleven years and twenty-one previous films in this particular universe as our remaining hero survivors of a universal apocalypse seek to undo a dastardly deed by an alien with a God complex and restore balance, harmony and half the worlds populace who were turned to dust. Next up we have a drama about an outgoing divorcee who finds love on the dancefloor; followed up by an Aussie drama about a retired opera singer living in rainforest Queensland mourning the death of her husband and preparing for her farewell concert only to be visited by her late husbands now adult son, whom she asks an impossible favour of. We then turn to a semi-biographical work set in the 1920's of a famed Actress and Dancer who as a teenager is accompanied to her New York Dancing School by a guardian to ensure she stays on the straight and narrow and doesn't succumb to the temptations of a big city. This is followed up by a story of two cousins who have big plans to lay a fibre optic cable half way across the US in order to help their efforts in the high stakes game of trading the financial markets where that game is won or lost in a matter of milliseconds. Then we have a story set in the mid-'80's surrounding a son who returns home after an absence of three years living in the big city to confront his parents with the some shocking news; and closing out the week is a story of a hapless Police Officer who loses just about everything and undergoes a nervous breakdown set to the soundtrack of his late mothers favourite song by a rock legend.
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the seven latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release and as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the week ahead.
'AVENGERS : ENDGAME' (Rated M) - as if you didn't already know it, the direct sequel to 2018's 'Avengers: Infinity War', a sequel to 2012's 'The Avengers' and 2015's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 'Avengers : Endgame' arrives this week following much hype, eager anticipation from legions of fans across the world, and plenty of record breaking buzz despite the plot secrecy from Marvel Studios, Directors Anthony and Joe Russo and the principal cast and crew. Following on immediately from where 'Infinity War' left off the film picks up after half of all life in the universe was killed due to the actions of Thanos once he had amassed all six infinity stones and placed them strategically in his Infinity Gauntlet. The remaining Avengers and their allies must reassemble to revert those actions in one final stand to restore balance to the universe and save all humanity . . . or half of it at least!
With an ensemble cast that consists all of our much loved superheroes and a few nefarious intergalactic villains too, and the conclusion of eleven years of MCU story telling that has so successfully interwoven individual standalone films with cross-over episodes to drive a franchise that we're invested in, Box Office records could well & truly be smashed here. Advance ticket sales seem to indicate that this blockbuster is going to be huge, with the potential to top the worldwide Box Office takings of US$2.05B as seen for 'Infinity War'. At a running time of three hours and two minutes, strap yourselves in for a wild ride as Thanos faces off against all the might and power that the Avengers and their allies can muster. The wait is over people!
'GLORIA BELL' (Rated M) - having had its World Premier screening at TIFF back in September last year, this American drama film is Directed, Co-Produced, Co-Written for the screen by Sebastian Lelio and based on a story by him too, which he Directed first time around back in 2013 in the Spanish/Chilean film titled 'Gloria'. Since then Lelio has Directed 'A Fantastic Woman' in 2017 and in 2018 'Disobedience'. This film was released in the US back in early March and now it gets a showing in Australia. Starring Julianne Moore in the title role the film tells the story of a free-spirited divorcee who spends her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance with Arnold (John Turturro), filled with the joys of emerging love and the challenges of dating. Also starring Michael Cera, Sean Astin, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Rita Wilson, the film has garnered generally positive Press.
'CELESTE' (Rated M) - Directed and Co-Written by Ben Hackworth this Australian drama film stars Radha Mitchell in the tile role as an early 40 something Celeste, a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved and to relocate herself to a crumbling yet beautiful estate in the heart of the Far North Queensland, Australia, rainforest. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste prepares to return to the stage for her farewell appearance. Her late husband's now estranged son Jack (Thomas Cocquerel), now 26, is still haunted by the past and arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered - beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous all at once. Celeste is keen for Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request in the shape of an impossible favour, to which the secrets that drove them apart will explode back to life. The film saw its World Premier screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival back in August last year and also stars Odessa Young and Nadine Garner.
'THE CHAPERONE' (Rated PG) - this partially based on a true story film is Directed by Michael Engler and is based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Laura Moriarty. The film had its World Premier at the Los Angeles Film Festival in September last year and went on release in the USA at the end of March to generally mixed or average Reviews, having so far accumulated just US$223K at the Box Office. The story centres on the teenage Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) - a famed American Actress and Dancer of the 1920's and '30's who lived from 1906 until 1985 having starred in seventeen silent movies and eight sound films before retiring in 1938. She is granted an opportunity to travel to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School, headed up by Ruth St. Denis (Miranda Otto) - an American modern dance pioneer who lived from 1879 until 1968, and the co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. But, in venturing to the Big Apple, she is to be accompanied by a chaperone in the form of Norma (Elizabeth McGovern), whose life is ultimately changed forever by the experience. Also starring Blythe Danner, Victoria Hill and Geza Rohrig.
'THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT' (Rated M) - Written and Directed by Canadian Kim Nguyen here he explores the ruthless under current of our ever increasing digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes financial markets game of High Frequency Trading, where winning the game is measured in milliseconds. The pair have a dream to build a fibre-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, and in so doing making them millions. But nothing is as straightforward as it would seem for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the brawn, and between them they push each other and those around them to breaking point on their idealistic journey. Constantly riding their backs is their former boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) a powerful and manipulative trader who is relentless in her determination to come between them and their plans. No matter what the cost, Vincent and Anton are determined to cut a fibre-optic cable through America, only to find redemption at the end of their line, not through money, but through family and reconnecting to the land. The film had its World Premier showing at TIFF back in September 2018, was released Stateside in mid-March, has so far taken US$492K, and has generated mixed our average Reviews so far.
'1985' (Rated M) - here this American drama film is Directed, Written, Co-Edited and based on a 2016 short film of the same name by Yen Tan. The film has been highly regarded and has picked up five award wins and a further nine nominations from around the festival circuit having Premiered at South By Southwest in March 2018. Set in 1985, in Texas, here Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith) hasn’t been home for three years, an absence he justifies as the price of his success claiming he just keeps climbing the corporate ladder at a prominent New York advertising agency. However, we soon enough learn that all is not as it seems with Adrian, who is clearly uncomfortable in returning to the locale of his devoutly Christian lower-middle-class family outside Fort Worth and confronting his father Dale (Michale Chiklis) and his mother Eileen (Virginia Madsen) with the tragic news that he is dying from AIDS. Also starring Aidan Langford and Jamie Chung.
'THUNDER ROAD' (Rated M) - this American comedy drama film is Directed, Written, stars, is Co-Edited and the music is also produced by one Jim Cummings based on his previous 2013 award winning short film of the same name. The film Premiered at South By Southwest back in March 2018 where it took out the Grand Jury Prize, cost a mere US$200K to make, has so far grossed US$355K, has picked up a bunch of award wins and nominations from around the festival circuit, and has received widespread critical acclaim. Following a Texan Police Officer, Jim Arnaud (Jim Cummings) who loses his mother, his marriage to Rosalind (Jocelyn DeBoer), custody of his daughter Crystal (Kendal Farr), and eventually his job. Inspired by one of the greatest songs ever written - 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen, we see officer Arnaud apply this lullaby of his mother's to his life during his ongoing and at times hilarious nervous breakdown. The film also stars Macon Blair.
With seven new release movies this week to tempt you out to your local Odeon, remember to share your movie going thoughts with your other like minded cinephile friends afterwards here at Odeon Online. In the meantime, I'll see you sometime somewhere in the week ahead at your local Odeon.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
Whatever your taste in big screen film entertainment is this week - be it any of the seven latest release new movies as Previewed below, or those doing the rounds currently on general release and as Reviewed and Previewed in previous Blog Posts here at Odeon Online, you are most welcome to share your movie going thoughts, opinions and observations by leaving your relevant, succinct and appropriate views in the Comments section below this or any other Post. We'd love to hear from you, and in the meantime, enjoy your big screen Odeon outing during the week ahead.
'AVENGERS : ENDGAME' (Rated M) - as if you didn't already know it, the direct sequel to 2018's 'Avengers: Infinity War', a sequel to 2012's 'The Avengers' and 2015's 'Avengers: Age of Ultron', and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe 'Avengers : Endgame' arrives this week following much hype, eager anticipation from legions of fans across the world, and plenty of record breaking buzz despite the plot secrecy from Marvel Studios, Directors Anthony and Joe Russo and the principal cast and crew. Following on immediately from where 'Infinity War' left off the film picks up after half of all life in the universe was killed due to the actions of Thanos once he had amassed all six infinity stones and placed them strategically in his Infinity Gauntlet. The remaining Avengers and their allies must reassemble to revert those actions in one final stand to restore balance to the universe and save all humanity . . . or half of it at least!
With an ensemble cast that consists all of our much loved superheroes and a few nefarious intergalactic villains too, and the conclusion of eleven years of MCU story telling that has so successfully interwoven individual standalone films with cross-over episodes to drive a franchise that we're invested in, Box Office records could well & truly be smashed here. Advance ticket sales seem to indicate that this blockbuster is going to be huge, with the potential to top the worldwide Box Office takings of US$2.05B as seen for 'Infinity War'. At a running time of three hours and two minutes, strap yourselves in for a wild ride as Thanos faces off against all the might and power that the Avengers and their allies can muster. The wait is over people!
'GLORIA BELL' (Rated M) - having had its World Premier screening at TIFF back in September last year, this American drama film is Directed, Co-Produced, Co-Written for the screen by Sebastian Lelio and based on a story by him too, which he Directed first time around back in 2013 in the Spanish/Chilean film titled 'Gloria'. Since then Lelio has Directed 'A Fantastic Woman' in 2017 and in 2018 'Disobedience'. This film was released in the US back in early March and now it gets a showing in Australia. Starring Julianne Moore in the title role the film tells the story of a free-spirited divorcee who spends her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. She soon finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance with Arnold (John Turturro), filled with the joys of emerging love and the challenges of dating. Also starring Michael Cera, Sean Astin, Jeanne Tripplehorn and Rita Wilson, the film has garnered generally positive Press.
'CELESTE' (Rated M) - Directed and Co-Written by Ben Hackworth this Australian drama film stars Radha Mitchell in the tile role as an early 40 something Celeste, a renowned opera diva who retired early for the man she loved and to relocate herself to a crumbling yet beautiful estate in the heart of the Far North Queensland, Australia, rainforest. Ten years after the tragic death of her husband, Mateos, in a boating accident, Celeste prepares to return to the stage for her farewell appearance. Her late husband's now estranged son Jack (Thomas Cocquerel), now 26, is still haunted by the past and arrives amidst the preparations for the performance and finds Celeste is as he remembered - beautiful, intoxicating and dangerous all at once. Celeste is keen for Jack to stay at the estate, but needs him to perform one last request in the shape of an impossible favour, to which the secrets that drove them apart will explode back to life. The film saw its World Premier screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival back in August last year and also stars Odessa Young and Nadine Garner.
'THE CHAPERONE' (Rated PG) - this partially based on a true story film is Directed by Michael Engler and is based on the 2012 novel of the same name by Laura Moriarty. The film had its World Premier at the Los Angeles Film Festival in September last year and went on release in the USA at the end of March to generally mixed or average Reviews, having so far accumulated just US$223K at the Box Office. The story centres on the teenage Louise Brooks (Haley Lu Richardson) - a famed American Actress and Dancer of the 1920's and '30's who lived from 1906 until 1985 having starred in seventeen silent movies and eight sound films before retiring in 1938. She is granted an opportunity to travel to New York City to study dance at the Denishawn School, headed up by Ruth St. Denis (Miranda Otto) - an American modern dance pioneer who lived from 1879 until 1968, and the co-founder of the American Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts. But, in venturing to the Big Apple, she is to be accompanied by a chaperone in the form of Norma (Elizabeth McGovern), whose life is ultimately changed forever by the experience. Also starring Blythe Danner, Victoria Hill and Geza Rohrig.
'THE HUMMINGBIRD PROJECT' (Rated M) - Written and Directed by Canadian Kim Nguyen here he explores the ruthless under current of our ever increasing digital world. Cousins from New York, Vincent Zaleski (Jesse Eisenberg) and Anton (Alexander Skarsgård) are players in the high-stakes financial markets game of High Frequency Trading, where winning the game is measured in milliseconds. The pair have a dream to build a fibre-optic cable straight between Kansas and New Jersey, and in so doing making them millions. But nothing is as straightforward as it would seem for this flawed pair. Anton is the brains, Vincent is the brawn, and between them they push each other and those around them to breaking point on their idealistic journey. Constantly riding their backs is their former boss Eva Torres (Salma Hayek) a powerful and manipulative trader who is relentless in her determination to come between them and their plans. No matter what the cost, Vincent and Anton are determined to cut a fibre-optic cable through America, only to find redemption at the end of their line, not through money, but through family and reconnecting to the land. The film had its World Premier showing at TIFF back in September 2018, was released Stateside in mid-March, has so far taken US$492K, and has generated mixed our average Reviews so far.
'1985' (Rated M) - here this American drama film is Directed, Written, Co-Edited and based on a 2016 short film of the same name by Yen Tan. The film has been highly regarded and has picked up five award wins and a further nine nominations from around the festival circuit having Premiered at South By Southwest in March 2018. Set in 1985, in Texas, here Adrian Lester (Cory Michael Smith) hasn’t been home for three years, an absence he justifies as the price of his success claiming he just keeps climbing the corporate ladder at a prominent New York advertising agency. However, we soon enough learn that all is not as it seems with Adrian, who is clearly uncomfortable in returning to the locale of his devoutly Christian lower-middle-class family outside Fort Worth and confronting his father Dale (Michale Chiklis) and his mother Eileen (Virginia Madsen) with the tragic news that he is dying from AIDS. Also starring Aidan Langford and Jamie Chung.
'THUNDER ROAD' (Rated M) - this American comedy drama film is Directed, Written, stars, is Co-Edited and the music is also produced by one Jim Cummings based on his previous 2013 award winning short film of the same name. The film Premiered at South By Southwest back in March 2018 where it took out the Grand Jury Prize, cost a mere US$200K to make, has so far grossed US$355K, has picked up a bunch of award wins and nominations from around the festival circuit, and has received widespread critical acclaim. Following a Texan Police Officer, Jim Arnaud (Jim Cummings) who loses his mother, his marriage to Rosalind (Jocelyn DeBoer), custody of his daughter Crystal (Kendal Farr), and eventually his job. Inspired by one of the greatest songs ever written - 'Thunder Road' by Bruce Springsteen, we see officer Arnaud apply this lullaby of his mother's to his life during his ongoing and at times hilarious nervous breakdown. The film also stars Macon Blair.With seven new release movies this week to tempt you out to your local Odeon, remember to share your movie going thoughts with your other like minded cinephile friends afterwards here at Odeon Online. In the meantime, I'll see you sometime somewhere in the week ahead at your local Odeon.
-Steve, at Odeon Online-
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