The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

By Steven Zeitchik It's a little easier to sort through the Tribeca films now that there aren't 3,626 of them. But there are still a lot. So we'll filter them ever further and offer some of the more intriguing among the latest wave of announcements today (the fest unveiled its celeb-heav...

That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

After its success debuting at SXSW such Judd Apatow projects as Forgetting Sarah Marshall last year and Knocked Up the year before, Universal Pics is taking advantage of the hip SXSW demo --and the fest's pre-summer time-frame--to promo two more flicks. The studio will screen the first-ever footage ...

On Monday, the in-transition Tribeca Film Festival announced its World Competition and Discovery sections, 38 films from what will be a slimmed-down 86 feature line-up. That's down from 174 films just three years ago.But amongst those 3 dozen-plus films are......

The 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by American Express, the founding sponsor of the Festival, today announced the first 38 films to be presented among the 86 feature length and 46 short films at this year’s Festival. The titles unveiled include 24 World Narrative and Documentary Competition...

Today was a special one-off Frightfest event, which saw the return of the festival to it’s seedbed cinema, The Prince Charles, on Leicester Place in London. There are four separate Film 4 Frightfests a year – a full weekender in August, a Glasgow satellite event, an all-nighter at the ICA and, f...

Cinematical has just learned that Woody Allen's Whatever Works will open the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival, marking Allen's return to New York (and New York filmmaking) since shooting his last few films in Europe (he last shot in NY back in 2004). On debuting his new movie in NYC, the always-brief Alle...

When we think of Fred Willard, many terms come to mind. “Jovial,â€� “jocular,â€� “jollyâ€� – just to name the “J’s.â€� Fred: frightfully funny. Or, to use most every other letter in the alphabet, “amusing,â€� “child-like,â€� “comical,â€� “drole,â€� “gifted,â€� “gut-busting,â€...

Nadine Kam photos “Lost’s” Michael Emerson on the red carpet. OK, OK, so it’s been a while. Can’t a person just recover from Sunday’s Oscar Night America festivities at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel? The event was once again presented by the Hawaii International Film F...