Still from Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work.
For this week's movie segment, we’re celebrating the Tribeca Film Festival, which kicked off Wednesday night with "Shrek Forever After."
Just eight years old, the downtown New York festival attracts some of the biggest film distribution companies, actors, directors, and media outlets in the world.
Rafer Guzman, Takeaway movie contributor and Newsday critic, has been following the festival closely, and he tells us which Tribeca films we should all be looking out for in the coming months.
Rafer's Tribeca picks:
(Below, the trailer for "Get Low," which will arrive in theaters in June.)
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Comments [3]
Lynn took over in that segment didn't she?!? There was nearly no reason for Rafer to come on air. A shame cause I look forward to his
visits!
On your De Niro quiz: John, you should listen to Rafer Guzman.
"Taxi Driver" was NOT Jodie Foster's "first adult movie."
She was quite well known in 1976. In addition to all her TV work, she had memorably played Ellen Burstyn's daughter in "Alice Doesn't Live Here Any More," two years earlier.
For that matter, Christopher Walken had been widely noticed in "Next Stop Greenwich Village" and "Annie Hall" (as Annie's psycho younger brother) before he worked with De Niro in "Deer Hunter."
I thought you were going to include Tobey Maguire, who has a distinctive small role -- really, his first non-TV role -- in 1993's "This Boy's Life."
If you're interested in the new movie Ondine with Colin Farrell, check out The Secret of Roan Inish. Wonderful characters, beautiful scenery and music and a great tale for adults and children.
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