by Larry Richman
May 5, 2008 8:38 PM
Your intrepid film festival and indie reporter has emerged bleary-eyed but unscathed from the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival. Not all film festivals are created equal, and Tribeca is one where it helps to have significant lung capacity. There weren't many opportunities to come up for air and file reports as I'd been able to do elsewhere.
Santa Barbara was a blast and I was able to file reports each night with capsule reviews of all the films I'd seen that day. It's a much lighter schedule and all events were within walking distance of each other, with films starting late and ending early, allowing me to be in constant contact from my room just a five minute walk from the theater where most films were screened. At SXSW I wasn't able to post every day but the trip was a mere five days and I was able to write 16 reviews in the week following my return. But the Tribeca Film Festival is in a whole other league. I attended screenings from morning to night, literally, for close to two weeks with several hours of travel time each day. So, the bad news is, I was in the belly of the beast and unable to post (save for one review) over the past couple of weeks in New York. The good news is, I saw 50 films and am very excited to begin talking about them.
Over the next several days I hope to post as many capsule reviews as I can, choose my Top Picks, and write more extensive reviews or those films. Of course, as always, there will be some exciting pictures from the red carpet, intros to films, and Q&As which took place afterward. Stay tuned!
