Entering its 19th edition this year, Tribeca Film Festival has announced its feature film lineup, including a number of anticipated titles as well as festival favorites. World premiering at the festival is Chad Hartigan’s sci-fi romance Little Fish, Gerardo Naranjo’s Kokoloko, Eleanor Coppola’s Love is Love is Love, Michael Winterbottom’s sequel The Trip to Greece, Rodney Ascher’s A Glitch in the Matrix, Talya Lavie’s Honeymood, BenDavid Grabinski’s Happily, Bryan Bertino’s The Dark & The Wicked, plus documentaries on Stanley Kubrick, Dmx, Harry Belafonte, John Belushi, Brian Wilson, and more.
In terms of festival favorites, there’s Josephine Decker’s Shirley (our review), Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me, Gaspar Noé’s medium-length work Lux Aeterna, the St. Vincent-Carrie Brownstein collaboration The Nowhere Inn, and more. Plus, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island will...
In terms of festival favorites, there’s Josephine Decker’s Shirley (our review), Jayro Bustamante’s La Llorona Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me, Gaspar Noé’s medium-length work Lux Aeterna, the St. Vincent-Carrie Brownstein collaboration The Nowhere Inn, and more. Plus, Judd Apatow’s The King of Staten Island will...
- 3/4/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The world premieres of The Trip To Greece and a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti, as well as the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Michael Winterbottom’s The Trip To Greece reunites Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon and marks the fourth feature entry in the comedy series. It screens in Spotlight Narrative.
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
Jimmy Carter Rock & Roll President to open festival as previously announced.
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
The world premiere of a documentary about Sean Penn’s relief work in Haiti and the inaugural Women at Work documentary showcase are among the line-up of 115 features announced by Tribeca Film Festival on Tuesday (3).
Don Hardy’s documentary Citizen Plus screens in Movies Plus and chronicles Penn’s activism and charitable work in the disaster-struck Caribbean island nation.
The Us premiere of HBO’s Toronto dark comedy pick-up Bad Education starring Hugh Jackman screens in Spotlight Narrative, the same section that will show the New York premiere of...
- 3/3/2020
- by 36¦Jeremy Kay¦54¦
- ScreenDaily
The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival, presented by AT&T, has today unveiled its feature film lineup, including a number of world premieres and a selection of proven hits from other festivals, including Tiff, Sundance, and SXSW. The features program will include 115 films from 124 filmmakers from across 33 different countries. This newly announced lineup includes 95 world premieres, 2 international premieres, 4 North American premieres, 4 U.S. premieres, and 9 New York premieres, plus one sneak preview. The 2020 Tribeca Film Festival will run April 15 to 26 across New York City and even, for the first time ever, New Jersey.
“This year’s festival embraces the unique power of film to bring people together — whether that’s literally the communal experience of watching a film in a packed theater, or the more intangible way a great film can make you empathize with a stranger’s struggle,” said festival director Cara Cusumano in an official statement. “In an election year where...
“This year’s festival embraces the unique power of film to bring people together — whether that’s literally the communal experience of watching a film in a packed theater, or the more intangible way a great film can make you empathize with a stranger’s struggle,” said festival director Cara Cusumano in an official statement. “In an election year where...
- 3/3/2020
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
In the midst Himalayan Mountains there stands a figure that looms over the world like none other. Known to the world as Mount Everest, this juggernaut of natural beauty and signifier of the grand nature of the natural world has, for generations, inspired many a person to try and brave some of the most harsh and uncompromising conditions to say that they indeed conquered this giant mountain.
Almost 100 years after one of the first expeditions, Kino Lorber has recently released a brand new Blu-ray of the documentary that truly introduced the world to the beauty, and danger, of Everest. Entitled The Epic of Everest, the film was offered up to the world by Captain John Noel, and told the story the 1924 Everest expedition led by two of the great climbers of the early 1900s, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Both legends would perish during their journey, and while it would...
Almost 100 years after one of the first expeditions, Kino Lorber has recently released a brand new Blu-ray of the documentary that truly introduced the world to the beauty, and danger, of Everest. Entitled The Epic of Everest, the film was offered up to the world by Captain John Noel, and told the story the 1924 Everest expedition led by two of the great climbers of the early 1900s, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. Both legends would perish during their journey, and while it would...
- 9/15/2015
- by Joshua Brunsting
- CriterionCast
★★★★☆ The flagship restoration of this year's London Film Festival Archive strand, Captain John Noel's The Epic of Everest (1924) is both a spirited log of grand adventure and a sombre testament to the lives lost during a treacherous third attempt to scale the great Himalayan peak. Featuring a new score from Simon Fisher Turner (who also worked on 2011's Great White Silence rejuvenation, again with the BFI), Noel's masterwork is a remarkable feat of filmmaking, shot as it was on specially adapted cameras in the harshest of conditions, but to this day remains both entertaining and surprisingly spiritual.
Having already measured up Everest whilst on leave from his Indian regiment in 1913, Captain Noel was an individual consumed with adoration for the monolithic centrepiece of the Himalayas. It wasn't until 1919, however, Noel first publicly suggested that mountain be scaled, a challenge met in 1920. Though no moving images are known to exist of the first 1921 expedition,...
Having already measured up Everest whilst on leave from his Indian regiment in 1913, Captain Noel was an individual consumed with adoration for the monolithic centrepiece of the Himalayas. It wasn't until 1919, however, Noel first publicly suggested that mountain be scaled, a challenge met in 1920. Though no moving images are known to exist of the first 1921 expedition,...
- 10/21/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
David reporting on four of the British films in the London Film Festival.
The crown jewel in the archive selection this year is the BFI’s pristine restoration of J.B.L. Noel’s overwhelming 1924 documentary, The Epic of Everest. It’s one of those films where the sheer audacity of what’s being filmed, as opposed to any technical prowess, is what really impresses. And when the intertitles (it’s silent, of course, though outfitted with a gorgeously minimalist new score from Simon Fisher Turner) announce that a particular shot is brought to you using a revolutionary telephoto lens, that’s quite an achievement. Though no words are spoken, and faces barely seen, it’s hard not to become enthralled in Noel’s recounting of their journey through Tibet and up the mountain, with breathtaking long takes of some passages of the mountain gripping in the simplicity of distant figures precarious movements.
The crown jewel in the archive selection this year is the BFI’s pristine restoration of J.B.L. Noel’s overwhelming 1924 documentary, The Epic of Everest. It’s one of those films where the sheer audacity of what’s being filmed, as opposed to any technical prowess, is what really impresses. And when the intertitles (it’s silent, of course, though outfitted with a gorgeously minimalist new score from Simon Fisher Turner) announce that a particular shot is brought to you using a revolutionary telephoto lens, that’s quite an achievement. Though no words are spoken, and faces barely seen, it’s hard not to become enthralled in Noel’s recounting of their journey through Tibet and up the mountain, with breathtaking long takes of some passages of the mountain gripping in the simplicity of distant figures precarious movements.
- 10/19/2013
- by Dave
- FilmExperience
Receiving it’s world premier at the 57th BFI London Film Festival, this beautifully rendered restoration of Captain John Noel’s seminal documentary Epic of Everest is a truly awe-inspiring insight into George Mallory and Andrew Irvine’s expedition to reach ‘the top of the world’.
The infamous 1924 expedition of Mallory and Irvine is a story that remains shrouded in mystery. Culminating in the death of both climbers (as well as numerous others involved in this treacherous hike) the voyage still provokes debate amongst historians and mountaineers regarding whether or not the pair managed to reach Everest’s summit. Undertaken during the heyday of the exploration yarn, when audience’s thirst for adventure was reflected in the popularity of the anthropological documentary, Captain Noel (a heroic pioneer in his own right) decided to accompany Mallory and Irvine on their perilous journey. Filming every aspect of their heroic endeavour, Noel managed...
The infamous 1924 expedition of Mallory and Irvine is a story that remains shrouded in mystery. Culminating in the death of both climbers (as well as numerous others involved in this treacherous hike) the voyage still provokes debate amongst historians and mountaineers regarding whether or not the pair managed to reach Everest’s summit. Undertaken during the heyday of the exploration yarn, when audience’s thirst for adventure was reflected in the popularity of the anthropological documentary, Captain Noel (a heroic pioneer in his own right) decided to accompany Mallory and Irvine on their perilous journey. Filming every aspect of their heroic endeavour, Noel managed...
- 10/18/2013
- by Patrick Gamble
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
This documentary crafted from footage of the doomed explorers Mallory and Irvine is astonishing in its chill grandeur
In June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine walked to their deaths, disappearing from the view of their fellow explorers on the north-east ridge of Mount Everest. That there was a film-maker, with a customised camera and a telephoto lens, on hand to record any of their final steps is impressive, even when viewed from the age of citizen photojournalism. The documentary that Captain John Noel crafted from his hard-won footage is an astonishing movie, one that pays equal tribute to the ambition of Mallory's team and the inhospitality of the mountain.
For all its historical significance, The Epic of Everest feels more like an art film than a documentary, thanks to the restoration of the original tinted sequences and a new and richly textured, often sinister score by Simon Fisher Turner. Modern...
In June 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine walked to their deaths, disappearing from the view of their fellow explorers on the north-east ridge of Mount Everest. That there was a film-maker, with a customised camera and a telephoto lens, on hand to record any of their final steps is impressive, even when viewed from the age of citizen photojournalism. The documentary that Captain John Noel crafted from his hard-won footage is an astonishing movie, one that pays equal tribute to the ambition of Mallory's team and the inhospitality of the mountain.
For all its historical significance, The Epic of Everest feels more like an art film than a documentary, thanks to the restoration of the original tinted sequences and a new and richly textured, often sinister score by Simon Fisher Turner. Modern...
- 10/17/2013
- by Pamela Hutchinson
- The Guardian - Film News
BFI to showcase restored The Epic of Everest, shot by John Noel with primitive film equipment in 1924, at London film festival
Even today, the debate continues over whether George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made it to the summit of Everest in 1924. What is more certain is that it has become one of mountaineering's most captivating stories and the official film record of the climb represents one of the most remarkable treasures in the national film archive.
Now, 89 years on and 60 years after Everest was officially first conquered, the BFI has announced details of the film's restoration and world premiere.
The Epic of Everest was made by the explorer Captain John Noel, who accompanied Mallory and Irvine on what was the third attempt on the mountain.
Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive, called the film one of the greatest treasures in the archive: "It represents a key moment...
Even today, the debate continues over whether George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made it to the summit of Everest in 1924. What is more certain is that it has become one of mountaineering's most captivating stories and the official film record of the climb represents one of the most remarkable treasures in the national film archive.
Now, 89 years on and 60 years after Everest was officially first conquered, the BFI has announced details of the film's restoration and world premiere.
The Epic of Everest was made by the explorer Captain John Noel, who accompanied Mallory and Irvine on what was the third attempt on the mountain.
Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive, called the film one of the greatest treasures in the archive: "It represents a key moment...
- 8/27/2013
- by Mark Brown
- The Guardian - Film News
Archive gala at the 57th BFI London Film Festival to be the world premiere of restored 1924 doc Epic of Everest.
The BFI National Archive’s gala screening at the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) is the world premiere of the newly restored official film record of the legendary 1924 Everest expedition, The Epic of Everest
The 85-minute film will have a new score performed live by composer Simon Fisher Turner with a specially created musical ensemble featuring electronic music, found sounds, western and Nepalese instruments and vocals.
The Epic of Everest, directed by Captain John Noel, will have a simultaneous release in cinemas nationwide on Oct 18 including the BFI Southbank from Oct 19.
Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive, described the film as one of its “greatest treasures”.
“It represents a key moment in the history of mountaineering and remains an enduring monument to Mallory and Irvine,” added Baker.
“This...
The BFI National Archive’s gala screening at the 57th BFI London Film Festival (Oct 9-20) is the world premiere of the newly restored official film record of the legendary 1924 Everest expedition, The Epic of Everest
The 85-minute film will have a new score performed live by composer Simon Fisher Turner with a specially created musical ensemble featuring electronic music, found sounds, western and Nepalese instruments and vocals.
The Epic of Everest, directed by Captain John Noel, will have a simultaneous release in cinemas nationwide on Oct 18 including the BFI Southbank from Oct 19.
Robin Baker, head curator at the BFI National Archive, described the film as one of its “greatest treasures”.
“It represents a key moment in the history of mountaineering and remains an enduring monument to Mallory and Irvine,” added Baker.
“This...
- 8/27/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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