HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MOM WHERE EVER YOU ARE!!!
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Cannes starts this week and there will be coverage. Not sure how much as films are still drifting in. I will say there are some good films, and some films that I suspect will end up at the New York Film Festival because the check off enough ticky boxes.
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Got into arguments about Tribeca and why we should or shouldn't cover it. Some writers I know have decided to give up on the fest.
The con side argues that since DeNiro and group sold control of the festival it's slid into the toilet and the films are just things that couldn't get into any other fest, and largely suck across the board.
The pro side is that the festival is almost all world premeires and no one will know if the fest if good or bad until all the films screen and we know what .
I stand on the pro side because having seen between 70 and 100 plus films every year for the last 15 years I know better than the people lecturing me what the ratio is. More to the point because I've seen the films that show up during the next year as must sees that everyone tells me I need to see when they are released.
Now are all Tribeca films good? Oh hell no. Every year thre are some hellacious dogs, but there are more good than some people think, and as I have said I've been an early adopter for later fan favorite films.
For me, as a writer who can really wade in Tribeca is a grand treasure hunt-so much so that I've already seen one film that is on the best of 2025 list and which I can't stop thinking about.
Is it worth attending? Oh yes... but you have to remember like all film festivals its ultimately a crap shoot as to whether you'll like the films.
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Random Tribeca note:
Posts will drop as close to the embargo as I can. Things are going up already and it's first come first serve so some reviews will not be as close as some PR people will have liked.
Keep reading and watch the chaos ensue.
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I think the reason I've drifted away from Billy Joel is he is not releasing new music and since he is one of my favorite song writers, seeing him become essentially a lounge singer annoys the piss out of me. His words spoke my heart and the fact he has no more makes me feel as though I'm silent-and I know that isn't true.
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