City Island

At Tribeca: 6 Films Worth the Hassle

Published on: April 22, 2009

From MovieLine Written by S.T. VanAirsdale

City Island: I never wanted Raymond De Felitta to direct again after his agonizingly saccharine 2005 dramedy The Thing About My Folks. The synopsis of his latest film — featuring Andy Garcia and Julianna Margulies as a couple with arguably the most sequestered private lives in New York’s most sequestered suburb — didn’t encourage me either. I was wrong. Not because De Felitta has sudden mastery of relationships, style, or anything else, really, but because his cast inhabits an utterly unbelievable premise with genuine presence and soul. I still don’t know what Emily Mortimer was doing in there, but trade her for Alan Arkin’s acting-coach curmudgeon and you break even. And Garcia, all stifled ambition and goombah sincerity, supplies his best work in years. City Island is worth seeing for his amateur-audition sequence alone. Never mind the last five minutes.

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'City Island' makes it to Tribeca Film Festival

Published on: April 19, 2009

Many of us know City Island as the quiet subcontinent of The Bronx. It is where we go for the best seafood and to watch fireworks on the 4th of July. Soon enough, we will also know it as the setting and premise of Raymond De Felitta's new film, titled "City Island".

The movie, starring Alan Arkin and Andy Garcia, will debut at the Tribeca Film Festival on Sunday, April 26th at 5:30pm.

Read the full article here.

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Andy Garcia Busy With 'City Island' - Not Lucky Luciano

Published on: October 10, 2008

Andy Garcia has taken some time to talk to The National Ledger about his latest role in 'City Island'. Having just wrapped up Disney's 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua', Garcia has been speculated to be starring in 'Testament of Lucky Luciano'. Garcia sets the record straight, sharing he actually working on the film 'City Island', a comedy in which Garcia plays a prison guard who finds the son he had abandoned 20 years earlier. Garcia also shares what its like to be producing and staring in the same film. 'City Island' is out in theaters in September of 2009.

"...When you're producing an independent movie and acting in it at the same time, you're working with a lot of financial parameters. You work very long hours in a very short period of time. You do whatever you need to do..."

Read the full interview here.

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