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Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveriesNEWShttps://tribecafilm.com/stories/tribeca-2017-jury-awardsFilmmaker Ricky D'Ambrose, who has made several excellent video interviews with directors for the Notebook, is kickstarting his feature debut, Notes on an Appearance. Above is a beguiling, cryptic teaser for the project. The Tribeca Film Festival wrapped last week (read our coverage) and the many awards have been announced, including Keep the Change for U.S. Narrative, Son of Sofia for International Narrative, Bobby Jene for Documentary, and Treehugger : Wawona for the immersive storytelling Storyscapes Award.Recommended VIEWINGSpeaking of Tribeca, the festival hosted a The Godfather and The Godfather: Part II reunion and on-stage conversation with director Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, and more. Lucky for us, they broadcast and recorded the whole thing.Bill and Turner Ross's stellar documentary 45365, winner of the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW in 2009, is now free to stream online.

The 2017 Tribeca Film Festival has officially come to a close, but there's still a lot to look forward to. Firstly, there are the award winners, which you'll want to seek out when they become available. Narrative features Keep the Change and The Divine Order and documentary features Bobbi Jene and Hondros were the biggest honorees of the juried competitions and audience selections (see the full lists of winners here and here).  Also, whether you attended or not, chances are you missed some of the best parts of this year's event, such as the star-studded panels and reunion-heavy retrospective screenings. Fortunately, the festival is sharing a lot of the hot ticket functions online, while others have been documented from the...

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The Tribeca Film Festival has announced this year’s Audience Award winners: “The Divine Order” and “Hondros,” which won the narrative and documentary prizes, respectively. “Saturday Church” and “Shadowman” were the runners-up.

“It is always exited to see what resonates most with the audience, and this year both the narrative and documentary winners represent smart filmmaking and impactful storytelling,” said Tribeca Film Festival’s Paula Weinstein. “On behalf of the Tribeca team, we congratulate ‘The Divine Order’ and ‘Hondros’ as the 2017 Audience Award winners, and hope moviegoers worldwide get to experience these powerful films.”

Read More: 2017 Tribeca Film Festival Awards: ‘Keep the Change,’ ‘Son of Sofia’ and ‘Bobbi Jene’ Take Top Prizes

Petra Volpe wrote and directed “The Divine Order,” a period piece about the Swiss suffragette movement. “Hondros,” which was co-written and directed by Greg Campbell, follows the war photographer Chris Hondros from the Kosovo War in 1999 until his...

They say Whitney Houston had the voice of an angel. A cousin of Dionne Warwick, she grew up singing in her church choir. She was beautiful, with a smile that could light up a room. Which is why, when she died in 2012, this monumental diva’s fall struck a chord with the entire world. Like so many legends before her, she died of a drug overdose that was a long time coming. Houston had been using for years, but what drove her over the edge remained a mystery to most of the world — until now.

Through interviews with friends and employees (most of her friends were employees), “Whitney: Can I Be Me” filmmakers Nick Broomfield and Rudi Dolezal take a strong stand, connecting the dots between a number of pivotal moments in Houston’s life that led to her heartbreaking decline. Namely: Her controlling parents, the night she was booed...

Keep the Change, Son of Sofia and Bobbi Jene were among the winners of the Tribeca Film Festival’s jury awards.

The awards were presented on Thursday evening, but best narrative short winner Kaveh Mazaheri of Retouch was unable to secure a visa to travel from Iran due to President Donald Trump’s travel ban.

"The reason that I am not there is because of Mr. Trump’s fascinating decisions, and as the least consequence, I and my crew couldn’t get a U.S. visa and now I have to talk to you via this video," said Mazaheri. "I am delighted that the first Tribeca award for an Iranian short film is awarded to my...

Max Winkler’s “Flower” is nothing if not a coming-of-age story, but it’s explicitly clear from the very first scene that the film’s teen characters have already lost their innocence a long time ago. We open in the front seat of a cop car, as 17-year-old Erica (“Before I Fall” star Zoey Deutch, acing another tricky lead role) gives a dispassionate blowjob to a uniformed police officer. Not that she doesn’t enjoy giving head — Erica has a sketchbook filled with immaculate drawings of every penis that she’s ever put in her mouth — but, like just about all of her sexual encounters to date, this hook up is purely transactional. When the cop asks her where she learned to suck dick like that, Erica bluntly replies: “Middle school.”

It’s a simple grift, and one that’s never played for titillation: Erica uses her jailbait charms to...

Pizza delivery drivers are some of the bravest people in the country. These 19 bizarre customer requests are proof. 1. "It was my last day on the job, and a girl asked me if I could take pictures with her. She said she would pay me $50 to make her cheating boyfriend jealous. I thought she was beautiful, so I said yes. We took two pictures - one watching a movie and the other spooning." 2. "I had an old woman ask for hug, then my phone number, then to take her to Walmart, all while she was crying." 3. "I once took an order...

Pizza delivery drivers are some of the bravest people in the country. These 19 bizarre customer requests are proof. 1. "It was my last day on the job, and a girl asked me if I could take pictures with her. She said she would pay me $50 to make her cheating boyfriend jealous. I thought she was beautiful, so I said yes. We took two pictures - one watching a movie and the other spooning." 2. "I had an old woman ask for hug, then my phone number, then to take her to Walmart, all while she was crying." 3. "I once took an order...

Keep the change, ya filthy animal. In honor of Home Alone's 25th anniversary on Friday, Nov. 6, UberEATS is delivering Kevin McCallister's pizza place of choice, Little Nero's Pizza, to fans in select cities. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment and UberEATS have teamed up to bring pizza pies from the fictional restaurant to avid fans of the beloved 1990 comedy. However, the availability is limited to select cities including NYC, L.A., San Francisco, and Chicago. UberEATS is working locally with NYC's Numero 28 Pizzeria, L.A.'s The Doughroom, Chicago's [...]...

The project which receives the most votes for Project of the Month will get a reported feature story about their project on Indiewire and will be in the running for Project of the Year.  Below are the five projects up for the prize. Click on the film title to learn more about each project (descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers):Ms. Guidance: "Ms. Guidance" is an irreverent and absurd dark comedy about trying to give up the dream that won't give up on you. Keep the Change: A man struggling to hide his autism falls in love with an autistic woman who challenges his desire to appear "normal." The Sensitives: Families struggle to reclaim their lives from the isolation of chronic illness and Multiple Chemical Sensitivity (McS). My Friend Max: "My Friend Max" centers around a bullied young girl, Thea, and the strong bond that she shares with her imaginary friend,...

The winning filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and will become a candidate for the June Project of the Month. That winner will be in the running for Project of the Year. The four projects up for this week's Project of the Week are listed below (with descriptions courtesy of the filmmakers). You can vote at the bottom of the page. 30 Seconds Away: Breaking the Cycle: Go from the streets to the courtrooms, as Harold Sloan and fellow homeless men struggle to survive in Milwaukee, Wi. Clusterf*ck: A romantic comedy about not knowing. What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael: Our movie attempts to reveal who Pauline Kael was, how she became a creative force, and her distinctive view of 20th century movies. Keep the Change: A man struggling to hide his autism falls in love with an autistic woman who challenges his desire to appear "normal.

Here's your daily dose of an indie film, web series, TV pilot, what-have-you in progress -- at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a project you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. Keep the Change Logline: A man struggling to hide his autism falls in love with an autistic woman who challenges his desire to appear "normal.” Elevator Pitch: The world needs a film that shows the intensity of emotional relationships between adults on the autistic spectrum. "Keep the Change" is a feature-length love story about David, an upper-class charmer struggling to hide his high-functioning autism. Forced to attend a support group for autistic adults, David falls in love with Sarah, a sheltered young autistic woman who challenges his identity as "normal." After four years of intensive story collaboration with our neurodiverse cast, "Keep the Change...

“Keep the change, ya filthy animal.” There’s a moment with art when sometimes a lightbulb goes off in your head. You’re looking at a piece and then, Bing, you get it. It’s not obvious but you get it. Personally, those are my favorite kinds of pieces, especially in pop culture art. If someone sees a […]

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Most people in their lifetimes have spent one portion of their lives serving tables. While many are able to do it with a smile and convince their guests that they are always in a chipper mood waiting on blue-hairs and screaming children (and their equally insufferable parents) for minimum wage and smaller tips, they all generally share a great disdain for the human race … and that includes guests and co-workers alike.

For those who have never worked in a restaurant for one single day in their lives, or for those who are completely oblivious to the every day work obstacles of waiters and waitresses, we have laid out 21 problems only waiting staff will understand. To normal folks, breaking change for a large bill seems easy and not such a big deal … until you throw in a full section of irate tables who all need something at the same time.

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“Keep the change you filthy animal”

Home Alone plays on the big screen at the Tivoli midnights this weekend as part of their ‘Reel Late at the Tivoli’ series. The 1990 comedy smash was John Hughes’s last significant contribution to pop culture. Hughes’s script was his usual dose of upper/middle-class discomfort combined with a Rube Goldberg meets Ferris Bueller selection of traps and low-brow cunning that held together better than a movie set at Christmas had any right to. And its young hero — the courageous home commando Kevin McAllister, played with gusto by the subsequently doomed Macaulay Culkin, is hilarious in his mission to protect his home from the “wet bandits” after being forgotten by his vacationing family.

What is best about Home Alone is its sense of fun. The plot really makes little sense. How does a family not notice they have an extra plane ticket or that a sibling is missing?...

Hank Williams Jr. reprised his role as a fiery anti-Obama blowhard on Friday, telling fans at a concert that the president was Muslim and anti-American.

The statement came near the end of a concert at the Iowa State Fair Grandstand. Williams Jr.'s comments were first reported in a review by Des Moines Register reporter Joe Lawler.

According to Lawler, the show was relatively free of politics until the end, when Williams Jr. made the following claims: "We've got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the U.S. and we hate him!"

The comments were apparently met with applause and loud cheers.

Williams Jr. made waves in October 2011, when he appeared on "Fox and Friends" and likened the president to Hitler.

That statement resulted in Espn yanking Williams Jr.'s opening song from "Monday Night Football," where the country star's song had played for over two decades.

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If you ask most people to name which games terrified them when they were growing up, you’d undoubtedly get a list of such horrific classics as Resident Evil, Dino Crisis or perhaps Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. None of these games had the ability to make me jump out of my skin as much as a single a Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis if you’re reading this in the U.S) cartridge based on a family friendly film from 1990. For some reason, a video game based on Home Alone – the classic Christmas comedy starring Macaulay Culkin – had me on the edge of my seat and scared shitless.

It might seem hard to believe, but Home Alone made for a surprisingly suspenseful video game, which was also completely unlike any other film-to-game conversion of the time. While so many movies were quickly...

Hank Williams Jr., whose comments comparing President Obama to Hitler cost him his role as the pied piper of Monday Night Football, visited The View today to explain himself. Wearing a vintage Mickey Mantle New York Yankees jersey, the 62-year-old pleaded ignorance about the explosiveness of his analogy — “I didn’t go to Harvard, Joy” — claimed he initiated his parting of the ways with Monday Night Football — “I told my manager you can tell Espn and Disney, ‘Adios’” — and held himself up as freedom-of-speech martyr. “My daughter said, ‘Daddy, are you in trouble,” Williams said. “‘They’re going to pull...

Are you ready for some payback? Espn may have pulled the trigger but, as far as Hank Williams Jr. is concerned, Fox News loaded the gun. Sure, the country crooner is ticked off that Monday Night Football dumped his opening tune after a 20-year run because he compared President Barack Obama golfing with Rep. John Boehner to "Hitler playing golf with Netanyahu." But, according to "Keep the Change," the little ditty he just recorded in response to the controversy, he apparently expected more support from the folks at Fox & Friends (make that Fox & No-Friends-of-Mine), where he fired off his explosive simile. "Keep the government out of my business/ And you can keep the...

Nashville, Tenn. — Hank Williams Jr. is about to have his say.

Williams' has cut a new song, "Keep the Change," calling out "Fox & Friends" and Espn after an interview last week on the Fox News talk show led to the end of his association with the sports network and "Monday Night Football," long home to his "Are you ready for some football?" theme.

"I've been recording for five decades, and I knew that old over-the-fence feeling on this one," Williams said in an interview Monday afternoon.

He's also scheduled to appear on "The View" and "Hannity" on Tuesday to discuss the uproar that sprung up after he made an analogy that President Barack Obama and House Speaker Rep. John Boehner golfing together was like Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu playing a round.

Espn decided to pull Williams' intro from last week's "Mnf" telecast after the comments,...

Of course you wouldn’t. That means that either Marchon3D has the dumbest idea in the history of capitalism or their product just isn’t meant for those of us with empty wallets and full brains. The company is going to begin stalking stocking movie theaters (starting in San Diego and Huntington Beach) with vending machines that dispense designer 3D glasses ranging in price from $22 to $70. According to Digital Trends, Marchon3D glasses will all work with RealD as well as passive screens that you might find in and around your household. You can even check out the company’s website to read all the vague reasons that make their glasses superior. “Minimal distracting lens reflections”?!?! Sign me up! Keep the change! As much as this concept panders to people with too much money on their hands (and a desperate need to look great in a completely darkened room), the company might be on to something...

Didn’t A&E used to be an informational network that bordered on the pretentious? Am I wrong about this? I’m pretty sure it used to be a hipster History Channel for parents. Lately, though, it seems like they’ve really Tlc-ed out. A little over a month ago they premiered a reality show about Tony Danza called Teach: Tony Danza (for which Bwe now does recaps). Let me tell you. It is an awful show. And now… the Hasselhoff reality show. Let’s take a look at it. The Hasselhoffs. There’s no way to tell what the show is going to be from that preview, but I would place every penny in my Bank of America Keep The Change savings account that it is going to be the Stupidest Sh*T On Television. The question is… should it get recapped? Should somebody keep a record of this...

Avant garde composer Jeff Grace has credits ranging from The Lord of the Rings trilogy to Gangs of New York to Cronenberg's Spider, and most recently he has written two new scores for Ti West's spooky The House of the Devil and Graham Reznick's original thriller I Can See You. They are being released together this month on one CD.

In addition to composer/conductor Grace's atmospheric electronic music [and] his trademark string writing, I Can See You writer/director Reznick contributed two tracks to the soundtrack). Here's the full track listing courtesy of MovieScore Media:

The House of the Devil (review here)

1 Opening 1.10 (listen to a sample here)

2 Family Photos 2.24

3 The View Upstairs 1.45

4 Original Inhabitants 3.05

5 Meeting Mr. Ulman 1.12

6 Keep the Change 1.12

7 Footsteps 1.27 (listen to a sample here)

8 Mother 3.07

9 Chalice 0.51

10 On the Run 3.45

11 Lights Out 3.04

12 He's Calling You 1.50

13 The House of the Devil 5.49

14 Mrs. Ulman 2.04

I Can See You...

"We were told to trust these institutions, and we did," says Mitch Tuchman. "We trusted Madoff. We trusted Aig. And now we've lost most of our life savings." Tuchman, though, is not an angry victim of some Ponzi scheme or shady subprime lender. To the contrary, the former hedge-fund manager is trying to be part of the solution, starting a company whose goal is to upend the trillion-dollar mutual-fund market by offering cheap, no-nonsense investment advice. Tuchman's MarketRiders is part of a movement of Web-based financial startups creating services that embrace transparency (even in their largely fee-based pricing) and improve the customer experience. These are the same traits that changed everything from music to auto sales, and given the financial industry's woes, it, too, looks ripe for this type of reinvention. Here's our list of the eight most promising "green shoots."

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