Tribeca 2005: Final Weekend Thoughts
Filed under: Tribeca, Festival Reports
With the awards ceremony tonight and the final screenings tomorrow, the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival is rapidly drawing to a close. I've been hopscotching screenings the past couple of days, and will have a last-gasp batch of reviews up soon. But first, some passing thoughts:- I had lunch this afternoon with Nicholas Jarecki, director of the Tribeca documentary The Outsider, which tracks James Toback through the making and release of When Will I Be Loved. Response to the film, Jarecki's first, has been strong, and with good reason: genius/madman Toback is relentlessly interesting, and the film provides a rather excellent investigation of the creative process. Jarecki's next project? An adaptation of The Informers, by Bret Easton Ellis.
- Last night at a party celebrating The Outsider, I somehow got embroiled in a discussion with Entertainment Weekly's Owen Gleiberman about the new Weinstein Company. Gleiberman predicts that Harvey's presence at film festivals is pretty much over. "Harvey wants Oscars," he said - it's Gleiberman's thought that the new venture will primarily occupy itself with making the kinds of films that win them.
- People are still talking about What Maggie Gyllenhaal Said - but nobody's saying too much about the film she's here to promote, The Great New Wonderful. What *have* I been hearing a lot of mentions of? Fierce People, starring Donald Sutherland and Diane Lane, and directed by Griffin Dunne. At lunch today, Jarecki called it "a masterpiece", and I've yet to hear from anyone who saw it who wasn't impressed. I think the greatest "find" of the festival for me was Alicia Scherson's Play - here's hoping it gets picked up and seen.
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