With Lana Wilson’s highly recommended documentary The Departure opening today at New York’s The Metograph, we’re rerunning this interview with Wilson conducted prior to the film’s premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival. Check The Metrograph’s page for screening times and a list of special guest moderators, ranging from fellow filmmakers to Zen teachers, who will host Q&A’s with Wilson this weekend. One of the major discoveries of the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival, Lana Wilson’s The Departure is a beautiful, wise and deeply empathetic immersion into one fascinating character’s unique approach to suicide prevention. Ittetsu Nemoto is a former punk rocker […]
by Scott Macaulay on Oct 13, 2017Ever searching for an identity, the Tribeca Film Festival returned — for a 16th time last week — to Midtown, the Upper West Side, Chelsea and, yes, the neighborhood for which it’s named. These days the festival never opens with a genuinely great (and thematically appropriate) film like Paul Greengrass’s United 93 or a goofy overstuffed blockbuster like J.J. Abrams’s Mission Impossible III, but usually with a low-key doc centered on iconic New York stuff: comedy (Bao Nguyen’s 2015 SNL doc opener Live from New York!), fashion (Andrew Rossi’s The First Monday in May, which opened last year’s edition) and music — the Nas doc which […]
by Brandon Harris on Apr 24, 2017