Today marks the end of the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, wrapping up 11 dynamic days of screenings, talks, dinners, and other starry events at venues across Manhattan. More than 20 years after Robert De Niro founded the festival—alongside Jane Rosenthal and Craig Hatkoff—to help stimulate the local film community in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Tribeca has become a launchpad for some of our most important and exciting creative voices.
About a decade before all of that began, however, De Niro was hard at work on his own directorial debut: 1993’s coming-of-age crime drama A Bronx Tale. In a profile from the September 1993 issue of Vogue—accompanied by a delightfully rakish portrait of De Niro by another master storyteller, Irving Penn—Julia Reed sized up the reticent but friendly, precise but patient movie star. (In what should have been a surprise to no one, he turned out to be as finely tuned a filmmaker as he was a performer, coaxing magnificent turns from a cast of mostly non-actors.)
Revisit that story here... and meet you at the movies very soon. |
