The two festivals overlap every year, but thankfully Tribeca runs for a couple of weeks, and Ebertfest is just four jam-packed days. I’ve “covered” both before and it made me feel like I was breaking the spacetime continuum. I was literally in two places at once. Anyway, the same will be true this year as well! I’ll be reviewing stuff for Rogerebert.com. The Tribeca Film Festival starts officially tomorrow and runs until the end of April. I have been going to pre-festival screenings for two weeks, and there is still much more to see in the press & industry screenings that happen during the festival.
I went downtown to the Tribeca offices today to pick up my press badge. I had some serious writing I had to do this morning, in a short amount of time, and it had to be done before I left town for Ebertfest. I needed to concentrate and limit my distractions, so I went and found a bench on the Hudson River waterfront, it was a cool grey morning, and sat there with a cup of Dunkin Donuts, and wrote like a maniac for two hours straight – long-hand!, got done what I needed to get done, and then was first in line when the Press Lounge opened its doors.
As I walked across the overpass to get to the Tribeca offices, I happened to catch the moment in the photo above. It was just too perfect. Thank goodness I love movies because I think I’ve seen 40 in the last two weeks alone. And the month is only half over.
Okay, the yellow sign in the upper left says “gatebunnies are coming.” The mind fills with all sorts of bad puns and images.
What are gate bunnies, any idea?
Your powers of observation at 3 am are freaky good.
Subtract 6 hours for Hawaii time. It was only 9:15PM where I am.
For 9.15 pm it’s still pretty good.