It’s directed and written by Duncan Jones, son of the legendary David Bowie, and follows an astronaut (Sam Rockwell) who pursues his own departure from a futuristic lunar mining base. "Moon" is rated R for language, and also stars Kevin Spacey (who voices a robot), Matt Berry, and Robin Chalk. 

Tribeca caught up with Jones recently at the Tribeca Film Festival.

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This little film is fantastic, and I think Kate Hudson has a nice directing career ahead of her. It’s only 16 minutes long, and is playing at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. 

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One of my favorite places is the YouTube Screening Room, where you’ll find all sorts of films, from “The 13th Amendment,” about a 90-year-old woman who casts her first-ever vote for an African-American President, to “Slacker – The Film,” Richard Linklater’s indie classic about a group of social outcasts living out their lives in Austin, Texas.

One of my current favorites is “Yellow Sticky Notes” by director Jeff Chiba Stearns. After realizing that his life was consumed by yellow sticky notes filled with endless “to do” lists (right there with ya, buddy), Stearns decided to make a film about it. So he animated 2,300 of those same sticky notes, blending hand-drawn images with an original score by Genevieve Vincent. The film made the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival.

Look for “Yellow Sticky Notes” on the YouTube Screening Room, and check out the other great films there, too. The site adds new movies every two weeks!

For more on “Yellow Sticky Notes” and Jeff Chiba Stearns:

• MeditatingBunny.com
• MySpace.com/yellowstickynotes

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The last time I saw Mariah Carey in a movie was just recently, in You Don’t Mess With the Zohan. I hated the movie, and she did nothing to elevate it in my mind.

Anyway, now Vivendi Entertainment has acquired the domestic rights to her film Tennessee, which premiered at this spring’s Tribeca Film Festival.

And she’s going to have to do some pretty fancy acting to rise above Glitter and, well, any other acting she’s ever done.

More after the jump…

It’s a quiet, moody drama centering on two lower-middle class brothers (Adam Rothenberg and Ethan Peck) who take to the road to resolve their economic and health challenges. Along the way they meet and bring along a waitress (Carey) whose dreams of a singing career have been dashed by a bad marriage.

It’s not a musical, but Carey performs the original ballad “Right to Dream,” which she co-wrote with Willie Nelson. The movie opens in theaters this December.

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