The Jennifer Lopez documentary “Halftime” kicked off the 21st Tribeca Festival, launching the annual New York event with an intimate behind-the-scenes portrait of the singer-actor filmed during the tumultuous year she turned 50, co-headlined the Super Bowl and narrowly missed out on an Oscar nomination. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The premiere at the United Palace in Washington Heights served as an appropriate opener for the Tribeca Festival, which has jettisoned “Film” from its name to better reflect the wide array of concerts, talks, television premieres, podcasts and virtual reality exhibits that increasingly fill its busy live-event schedule alongside movies. This year’s festival, running through June 19, will trot out plenty of big per...
The Tribeca Festival has long been a port for the serious film aficionado. But the Golden Age of music documentaries is changing that. And now with in-person entertainment reinstated in New York City, the venerable film event is opening its doors to a new subset: music lovers. This year’s Tribeca Festival (June 8 through June 19) kicks off with the world premiere of Jennifer Lopez’s Super Bowl documentary HALFTIME. From there, the two-week jaunt is filled with music docs about everyone from Marc Bolan to Menudo, diverse genres from West Coast rap to Detroit techno, plus lots of music stars including Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Baby, Taylor Swift, Pharrell, Steve Aoki, Nas, Common and many more. “The 2022 Tribeca Festival is filled with exciting music programming that features Grammy-winning art...