Tribeca

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Thursday I experienced my first Tribeca Film Festival films and I was hooked! Enter phase 2 of my NY experience! You all know how I love movies, but I was thinking that I could watch movies any time, right? Wrong. This is a movie experience like no other and I'm not even sure why.

First of all, I am seeing films that no one else has seen and may never see, depending on their distribution. Secondly, there's just something about being in this crowd.

Two of the three movies I've seen so far have had the director and other members of the cast or production crew in a panal type discussion after the movie. For example, "The Loving Story" is about a mixed race couple who married illegally in the 50's in Virginia and whose case was taken to the US Supreme Court, causing the law against mixed marriages in all states to be overturned. Excellent movie, and after, one of the attorneys who, through the ACLU, argued the case at the Supreme Court was there! So interesting...so unique...so not Malco in Rogers, AR!

"The Union," about the making of the album with Elton John and Leon Russell, and will be released nationally, I'm sure, was amazing! I had never even heard of Leon Russell until I met Randy, of course, who had his every album. He would have loved this movie which is Elton John's tribute to Russell's talent and career. When the movie was premiered Wednesday night, Elton John actually gave a performance and the event was free to the public, held outside, brrrr, and taking place while I was with James Taylor!

I do miss my movie buddy, Kathryn! I came home the first day and ordered tickets to about 12-13 more movies until May 1 and have plans to stand in RUSH lines for others, which is like stand-by.

The other cool thing about the festival is the location. This is the perfect way to explore Chelsea, Greenwich Village, and Tribeca. Yesterday I walked from 12:30-4, when I collapsed at Au Bon Pain on Union Square for a brownie and diet coke! I discovered a different subway that takes me right from 49th to Union Square which is at the top of Greenwich Village. They have a very cool outdoor market and park there, from which I walked to Cozy's Diner, which Emily had told me about because one of her favorite actors, Donald Glover from Community, eats there! It is wonderful! The atmosphere and the food! I ate there both Thursday and Friday mainly because they reminded me why I love split pea soup! They only know how to make it in the Northeast! I was also reminded not to order a chocolate shake in the Northeast. I have to order a "black and white" so they don't use chocolate ice cream, yuk, and it's still not Red Robin. So I'll save those calories for the great South!

Right by Cozy's which is on Broadway, is Grace Church, a beautiful Episcopal church on my list, so I'll probably go there May 1, the last day of the festival. I walked over to Chelsea, where another of the theaters is, and decided to go on over to the High Line, which several people, including Chris Barlow had told me about. That is a park built on an elevated train track that was closed due to so many accidents resulting in deaths. It runs from about 18th, all along the Hudson River to Gansevoort in the Meat Packing District adjacent to the Village. Then I walked down Bleeker St., which has this wonderful park and playground with children everywhere, little shops, known and unknown, a Magnolia Bakery with a line out the door, even passing the NY Psychoanalytic Association building, trying to find my way and also not caring about it, through Greenwich Village whose streets have no rhyme or reason! (Kind of like that sentence!) It was just a wonderful day, full of smiles and giggles, cold but not raining!

My last film was "NEDS," a movie set in Glasgow, the name standing for "non-educated delinquents." Wonderful, powerful film, with a panel with the director and several cast members. I'm in movie heaven!

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Comments

[Lacey]

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How was the trailer park--funny!? Hilarious pig truck in the meat packing district photo! Sorry I keep commenting so much...love your pictures!

[kathryn]

Just hearing about all of those movies turns your movie buddy, Kathryn, green with envy. Speaking of green, i would NEVER imagined pea soup would be on your plate. Just when you think you know someone.......

[maggie]

Cool!
Love the pics!! Was the Trailer Park a restaurant or gift shop or what?! The High Line is really cool...I wish I liked all that old stuff when Dad tried to get me to like it! Now I love it! Ugh!

[Bethany]

LOVING all the pictures! The churches are beautiful! Trailer park....hilarious. Dallas BBQ probably wasn't quite the same, huh? Keep enjoying your movies!!! how fun!