A Dirty Carnival is Korean writer/director Yu Ha’s fourth feature film, a gangster film revolving around 29 year old Byung-du, a career criminal struggling with his role as a son, brother, friend, and a member of Korea’s own generation X, as he fights to rise in the ranks of organized crime. It is screening in competition at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival.
Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov blends black comedy, elements of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, animation, and biting social commentary in Playing the Victim, the story of Valya,
Lady Chatterley is award-winning (1994 Camera d’Or for her first film, Coming to Terms with the Dead)French filmmaker Pascale Ferran’s adaptation of D.H. Lawrence’s John Thomas and Lady Jane, one of three versions of the novel perhaps better known as Lady Chatterley’s Lover, screening in competition at the 2007 Tribeca Film Festival, here in New York City until May sixth.
Better known to horror fans for his work in front of the camera in films like the Scream Trilogy and “Masters of Horror” creator’s Stephen King’s Riding the Bullet, David Arquette makes his debut as feature film director with The Tripper, a slasher film set at an outdoor music festival where a bunch of hippies have gathered to camp out and get high. The party has an uninvited guest – a hippie-hating killer decked out in a very realistic looking Ronald Reagan costume.