The annual Tribeca Film Festival is back, running until Sunday 16 June at various venues across New York City. Now in its 23rd year, it kicked off last night with the world premiere of , a documentary portrait of the iconic fashion designer. This year boasts a of films – including, significantly, buzzy documentaries centring and .
Here are a few other highlights. Actor Andrew McCarthy, an ’80s teen-film icon, directed this interrogation into how the moniker the Brat Pack was cavalierly applied to a group of young rising actors in 1985 – and how it’s stuck with them since, for good and ill. Just spending 90 minutes alongside McCarthy, a fixture in so many classic movies that have continued to resonate with generations of viewers, in the present is a thrill in itself, as it is when he visits the homes of people like Rob Lowe, Demi Moore, Ally Sheedy, and Emilio Estevez – some of whom he hasn’t seen in three decades.
I’d honestly watch a 90-minute slideshow of photos of those young golden gods from that time – and I’m rewatching posthaste. This meditative film by writer-director Vera Brunner-Sung focuses on the steady day-to-day life of an impassive middle-aged Montana man undergoing a quiet crisis. Lead actor Wa Yang turns in an impressive performance as a man struggling to balance tradition and individualism; one long unbroken shot of him singing Paul Young’s “Everytime You Go Away” at a karaoke bar speaks volumes.
Filmed on location in Missoula, Montan.
