Posted on 04/25/2019 10:30:09 AM PDT by EdnaMode
The 18th annual Tribeca Film Festival opened with Roger Ross Williams documentary The Apollo at the iconic uptown venue which performers and Harlem community members call home.
You can feel the history, the echo of the entertainers, Tribeca Film Festival co-founder Robert De Niro said in a speech before the film. In this administration, during these disturbing times of promoting racism, tonight, we reject it. No you dont, not here, not on this stage.
In The Apollo documentary, an HBO production, Williams chronicles the venues 85-year-history, moving between historic and present-day footage to show how far the country has come in terms of celebrating diversity, while reminding viewers how far America still has to go. In the past, The Apollo was the only venue in New York City to allow black performers. Thats no longer the case, of course, but Williams film argues that times are still hard. Williams put this message in perspective through behind-the-scenes content following a stage adaptation of Ta Nehisi-Coates book Between the World and Me, written as a father-to-son letter about how to live as a black man in a climate of police brutality and discrimination.
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What about Bobby DeNiro slamming John Belushi ‘s life?
He’s busy eating Venezuelan crow...
Are you talking about Bert Kreischer?
Havent we seen this movie before
De Niro is crying for attention. He probably used the “f” bomb a few times too because of his limited vocabulary.
#BoycottHollywood
Yes, times are hard for a demographic, some of whose members account for around 50% of violent crime in the country.
Hey, President Trump: Bobby De Niro is upset with you. Again.
Which, of course, means that you should continue to do whatever it is you did to make him upset with you...but harder.
You only know that you’re over the target if you’re getting flack.
Al Pacino keeps his mouth shut, which is why he still gets good roles, and DeNiro does movies like “Bad Grandpa”.
Raging Bullspitter speaks again.
“There is a comedian called The Machine”
Bert Kreischer ?
Love that guy.
Its the only way anyone pays deniro any attention
Just read about how DeNiro was doing lines with Belushi hours before he died. Real stand up guy.
He’s such a pathetic piece of shit.
The most shallow and lifeless always seem to ridicule and tear down what they cannot become/do themselves; they can’t create or do truly positive things. Very gross and hateful souls.
You’ll never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Been kinda nice hasn’t it?!
Look, I did not like Obummer or Clinton. But I did not obsess over them night and day. Why should I give them all the joy in my life?
But these guys, Trump lives in their heads rent free.
Robert De Niro divorced his wife who is black.
That’s racist....
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