TriBeCa Festival Celebrates Film and Resilience

[Dave Monroe]

>From Robin Pogrebin, "TriBeCa Festival Celebrates Film
and Resilience," NY Times, Tuesday, May 7th, 2002 ...

Certainly the world doesn't need another film
festival. But the people behind the TriBeCa Film
Festival felt strongly that New York needed this one.

So when you ask Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal,
founders of TriBeCa Productions, how their film
festival, which opens tomorrow and runs through
Sunday, will differ from Sundance or Cannes or
Toronto, they say they do not really know yet. 

"As it goes on, hopefully it will define itself," Mr.
De Niro said.

Soon it becomes clear that the importance of this
first festival lies not so much in the films
featured--more than 150 of them, from shorts like the
14-minute Spanish film "Bamboleho" to major Hollywood
premieres like "Star Wars: Episode II — Attack of the
Clones"--as in its location.

What the festival is mostly about is Lower Manhattan,
Ms. Rosenthal said: getting people there, proving it
is still vital, celebrating the creative (and consumer
and culinary) goods it has to offer....

http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/07/movies/07FEST.html

Now, this is one of the most annoyingly slow sites
I've seen of late ...

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.org/index_fest.html

And this ISN'T quite the poster plastered in the
subway stations around town ...

http://www.tribecafilmfestival.net/store/images/12.jpg

But with varicolored stripes running vertically up the
right edge, as on that subway poster, it bears some
resmblance to ...

http://www.waste.org/pynchon-l/grcover3.jpg

With that popcorn kernel as the "Winner of the
National Book Award" sticker, even ...

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