Opening Program: Frans Zwartjes TIE is thrilled to announce that three newly restored films by Frans Zwartjes will be opening The International Experimental Cinema Exposition - 2006. Frans Zwartjes (1927) is a filmmaker, musician, drawer, painter and sculptor. Sexuality, psychosis, cruelty, power and powerlessness are ever recurring themes in his films. The general idea of reality is broken down by brilliant camera work and neurotic editing to replace it with a personal and often disturbing real...

24 World Premieres Included in The New York Films competitionTribeca Film Festival founders Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff joined Peter Scarlet, executive director, in announcing the two categories of feature films to be presented in competition at the 2005 Tribeca Film Festival. The two categories, NY, NY Narrative Features and NY, NY Documentary Features, capture the diverse perspectives of living and experiencing New York and include 24 world premieres. The jurors for both c...

47th San Francisco International Film Festival (April 15-29) April 15th is tax day. But all the stress of income tax preparations and payments evaporated when the rousing theme song from San Francisco, the 1936 movie starring Jeannette MacDonald and Clark Gable, blasted from the pipes of the Castro Theatre’s Mighty Wurlitzer organ. Everyone in the 1400-seat movie palace clapped along. As Wu-Tang Clan producer and Kill Bill composer RZA proclaimed about the 1922 historic landmark: â€...