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"Let’s just say we started out to shoot a low budget psychological thriller in rural northwestern Michigan and ended up shooting an ultra low budget neo noir thriller in New York City," says The Girl on the Train's producer, Rebecca Reynolds. Here she shares tips and trade-offs for shooting on location in the Big Apple.

From "delicious" to "enormously smart," senior critic Kurt Brokaw watched 60+ shorts in Tribeca's 2012 line-up, choosing Picture Paris, Stitches, Intermission Time, Curfew, and Donkey as his critic's picks.

Kurt Brokaw may be Tribeca's biggest fan. His critic's choice offerings from Tribeca Film Festival's 2012 feature line-up include Chris Kenneally's Side by Side, Susan Froemke's Wagner’s Dream, and Tracie Holder and Karen Thorsen's Joe Papp in Five Acts.

Two shorts make Kurt Brokaw's Critic's Choice from Tribeca 2011: Eva - Working Title and Pentecost.

Senior film critic Kurt Brokaw salutes Tribeca Film Festival founders’ unwavering goal to enrich the economic and cultural life of a hurting post-9/11 neighborhood and offers critic’s choices from the 201l line-up. Top feature picks thus far include Blackthorn, Gone: The Disappearance of Aeryn Gillern, The Union, Everything Must Go, and She Monkeys.

New Directors/New Films showcases the work of emerging filmmakers from around the globe. Senior critic Kurt Brokaw takes in the festival, now in its 40th year, and gives us his picks of what to seek out and why, including Margin Call, The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975, Night Hunter, and Incendies.

In Red Shirley, notorious rocker Lou Reed asks his 101-year-old cousin, Shirley Novick, to share her wisdom on camera. Reed and Novick appeared with the short doc at its New York premiere at the New York Jewish Film Festival.

The Independent's senior film critic Kurt Brokaw offers his picks from the 2010 New York Film Festival. New films will be added to this list throughout the fest, which runs September 24th through October 10th.

YouTube and the Guggenheim are joining forces to orchestrate “the first biennial of creative video,” called YouTube Play. The Independent's Courtney Sheehan ponders the high-meets-low aspect of this endeavor with help from the blogosphere.

Kurt Brokaw stamps his critic's seal on select films from Tribeca 2010 and explains why the festival deserves a nod for nine years of expansive programming in a post-9/11 neighborhood... and world.