Just when you thought that the spaghetti western horse was finally shot, enter writer/director Wisit Sasanatieng, riding high in the saddle to revise the old style with 'Fah talai jone – Tears of the Black Tiger'. The Thai film was an instant cult hit, riding into the market like Shanghai Noon on acid. Sasanatieng shows homage to the greats that came before him with the flair of Leone and the violence of Raimi.
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.
The Tribeca Film Festival have announced their World Narrative and World Documentary Feature Film Competition line-ups and the films named for its Spotlight category today and the better programming, better category labeling, familiar directors and a slight decrease in volume makes the 6th edition perhaps the young fest’s strongest edition yet.