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传奇影星罗伯特·德尼罗在曼哈顿下城生活或工作多年。“对我这种住在曼哈顿下城的人来说，上东区完全是另一个世界，”他说道。
因此，在德尼罗看来，9·11袭击对他而言有着切肤之痛：“我当时正要飞往加州，在中城参加一场会议，没去机场反而折返了这里，亲眼看到北塔冒出浓烟，诸如此类的场景。接着又目睹南塔倒塌。我简直不敢相信，不敢相信。我看向左侧的大电视，通过CNN确认了这一切。”
“你需要通过电视来印证自己亲眼所见的画面？”我问道。
“我亲眼看到的东西，没错！太怪异了。”
在袭击发生后的几周里，他亲眼目睹自己熟悉的街区沦为鬼城。“我记忆最深刻的是，就在这片区域上方，每天、或许每隔几小时就会有环卫洒水车喷洒湿化的防尘水，抑制扬尘。”
事实上，曼哈顿下城的大部分区域都被附近归零地的粉尘覆盖，这种有毒粉尘随风飘散，钻进人们的家中和肺里。德尼罗用胶带封住窗户，担心粉尘有毒——而事实也确实如此。
但当粉尘终于开始沉降时，德尼罗和他长期的商业伙伴、制片人简·罗森塔尔开始着手寻找帮助曼哈顿下城走出废墟的办法。
罗森塔尔表示：“作为两个年幼女儿的母亲，我感到恐惧：还会再发生这样的事吗？我满脑子都是这种念头。但同时也在想，好吧，我们能做些什么？如果我们能伸出援手，能做点什么，那么总会有好事从中诞生。”
他们此前曾聊过在翠贝卡创办电影节的想法，但9·11事件后，这个想法有了全新的紧迫性——成为帮助这座支离破碎的城市愈合创伤的途径。
2002年5月，也就是袭击发生仅8个月后，首届翠贝卡电影节开幕，吸引了大批观众，更有包括纳尔逊·曼德拉在内的众多重磅名人出席。
德尼罗说：“这看起来就是当时该做的正确之事。”
罗森塔尔说：“你怎么能给邻居一个拥抱，告诉他们‘一切都会好起来的’？你怎么能对所有人说‘好吧，我们需要有所期待’？”
而对于排队参加首届电影节的15万多名观众来说，这正是他们所需要的。
德尼罗表示他从未有过动摇：“我当时没多想，只是觉得，我们就要这么做。”
近25年后，一部讲述该电影节历史的新纪录片《翠贝卡25》将于9月11日（本周五）在网飞上线。
德尼罗向来以在电影角色中投入饱满热情著称，而在政坛之外，他在相关议题上同样态度鲜明、情绪激昂。
去年春天，他参与了全国性的“无君主”集会，并在纽约市的集会上对人群说道：“我们要从街头走向投票箱，因为我们都理应拥有一个没有君主的国家。”
翠贝卡电影节的创办是对现实悲剧——9·11袭击——的回应，两位创始人表示，他们仍肩负着用艺术作为解药的使命，对抗他们眼中美国正在经历的真实创伤。罗森塔尔说：“我们创办这个电影节，源于一场战争行径。我们想向世界宣告：‘我们还在这里。’”
德尼罗将电影节的创办称为“一种反抗行动”，并表示时至今日，这种反抗仍针对特朗普政府。“没错，确实如此，”他说。“我们当时就觉得，如果有人要来找我们的麻烦，或是散播那些胡说八道，我们已经准备好应对了。如今我们愈发看清这个政府有多荒唐，唐纳德·特朗普有多疯狂，他必须被赶下台。我们必须让这个国家重回正轨。仅此而已。所以无论我们能通过这个电影节做些什么来反对他，反对他所造成的一切破坏，我们都会站出来。”
特朗普政府通常对德尼罗的批评回应称他患有“特朗普妄想综合征”。当被问及对此的看法时，德尼罗回应道：“‘特朗普妄想综合征’之所以出现，是因为他的所作所为。他们颠倒黑白。他篡改事实、颠倒黑白、混淆视听。这都是些愚蠢的废话。三岁小孩都能做到。这不过是转移注意力的手段，我们都心知肚明。但关键在于，如今在这里发表的言论必须被允许。”
德尼罗不太愿意谈及自己为重振市中心所做的一切，但这座城市的变化不言自明——他表示自己从未怀疑过曼哈顿下城无法从9·11事件中复苏。“我一直坚信它会恢复原状，”他说。“它永远不可能恢复不了。就像任何事情一样，只是需要时间。”
25年来，翠贝卡电影节为曼哈顿下城带来了数千部影片和数百万美元的收入；帮助瑞恩·库格勒、达米恩·查泽雷等导演开启了职业生涯；当然，它也帮助整座城市恢复了生机。“我为我们所做的一切感到非常自豪，”他说。“仅此而已。”
尽管全球范围内电影节数不胜数，但他承认翠贝卡确实需要这样一个电影节。“是的，我们当时确实需要，我想。”
想要观看纪录片《翠贝卡25》的预告片，请点击下方视频播放器：
https://youtu.be/-3ybhlaI2Ac
《翠贝卡25》官方预告片 | 9月11日登陆网飞 翠贝卡频道YouTube发布
更多信息：
- 翠贝卡电影节（官方网站）
- 《翠贝卡25》将于9月11日在网飞上线
本报道由约翰·达米利奥制作。编辑：史蒂文·泰勒
Remembering 9/11: Robert De Niro on helping revive Lower Manhattan after September 11
September 6, 2026 / 10:08 AM EDT / CBS News
Film legend Robert De Niro has lived or worked in Lower Manhattan for years. “You know, the East Side is another world to someone like me who’s Lower Manhattan,” he said.
So, for De Niro, the attacks on 9/11 hit especially close to home: “I was just about to fly to California. I was at a meeting in Midtown, and instead of going to the airport, I came back down here, and saw the tower, the North Tower, the smoke coming out, and so on. And then saw the South Tower fall. I couldn’t believe, I couldn’t believe it. I looked to my left where I have a big television and so confirmed it on CNN.”
“You had to look on the TV to confirm what you were seeing?” I asked.
“What I was seeing with my own eyes, yeah! It was weird.”
Robert De Niro and correspondent Tracy Smith in Tribeca. CBS News
And in the weeks that followed, he saw his old neighborhood become a ghost town. “The thing I remember most is, right up here it was with the dust that was wet down, as I say, every day, every few hours maybe, with the sanitation water trucks to keep that stuff down.”
In fact, most of Lower Manhattan was covered in the dust from nearby Ground Zero, a poisonous plague that drifted through the air, and into people’s homes and lungs. De Niro taped up his windows, worried that the dust was toxic. Which it was.
An ash-covered street near Ground Zero, after the collapse of the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001 in New York City. Anthony Correia/Getty Images
But when the dust finally began to settle, De Niro and his longtime business partner, producer Jane Rosenthal, started to look for ways to pull Lower Manhattan out of the ashes.
Rosenthal said, “As a mother of two little girls. I was scared: What’s going to happen again? I mean, it’s all those feelings. But it’s also like, okay, how can we help? If we can help, if we can do something, then something good will come of it.”
They’d kicked around the notion of starting a film festival in Tribeca before, but after 9/11, it took on a new urgency as a way to help heal a shattered city.
In May 2002, only eight months after the attacks, the very first Tribeca Film Festival opened, drawing big crowds and even bigger names, like Nelson Mandela.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela, left, shakes hands with Hugh Grant at the opening ceremony of the Tribeca Film Festival on the steps of City Hall, May 8, 2002, in New York. Joining them are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, festival co-organizer Robert De Niro, and Whoopi Goldberg. AP Photo/Mark Lennihan
De Niro said, “It just seemed like the right thing to do.”
Rosenthal said, “How do you give your neighbors a hug and say, ‘This is going to be okay?’ How do you say to everybody, ‘Okay, we need something to look forward to?’”
And for the 150,000-plus people who lined up for the first festival, that’s exactly what it was.
De Niro says he never had a doubt: “I wasn’t thinking, I was just being, We’re going to do it.”
Nearly 25 years later, a new documentary about the history of the festival, “Tribeca 25,” premieres on Netflix this coming Friday, Sept. 11.
Since 2002, the Tribeca Festival, in addition to films, has grown to feature concerts, filmmaker talks, industry panels, podcasts, virtual reality and games at venues throuhgout the city. Tribeca Festival
De Niro is famous for bringing a certain level of passion to his film roles, and he’s just as fiery off-screen when it comes to politics.
He joined in the nationwide No Kings rallies last spring, and told the crowd in New York City, “We’re going from the streets to the ballot box, because we all deserve a country with no kings.”
The Tribeca Film Festival was created as a reaction to real-world tragedy – the 9/11 attacks – and the founders say they’re still on a mission to use art as an antidote to what they see is real trauma in America. Rosenthal said, “We’re a festival that was started because of an act of war. It was to say to the rest of the world, ‘We’re still here.’”
De Niro called the creation of the festival “an act of defiance,” and says it continues to be one towards the Trump administration. “Well, it is, it is,” he said. “And we felt if anyone was going to start coming at us or coming in with the nonsense, we’re going to be ready for it. And we now see more and more how insane this administration is, how insane Donald Trump is, and he has to be gotten out. And we’ve got to get back on track with this country. That’s all. So, however we can do something with this festival to oppose him and all the destruction he’s responsible for, we’re there.”
The administration’s usual response to De Niro’s criticism is that he has “Trump Derangement Syndrome.” Asked to comment, De Niro replied, “‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is because of what he’s done. They revert it. He reverts things and inverts them and twists them around. It’s a lot of silly nonsense. A three-year-old could do it. That’s just a way to deflect, and we all know that. But the point is, things being said now here have to be allowed to be said.”
CBS News
De Niro’s a little less willing to talk about all he’s done to bring downtown back, but the city speaks for itself – and he says he never feared it wouldn’t recover from 9/11. “I always felt it would come back,” he said. “It could never not come back. Like anything, it could take time.”
In 25 years, the Tribeca Festival has brought thousands of films and millions of dollars to Lower Manhattan; helped launch the careers of directors like Ryan Coogler and Camien Chazelle, among others; and, yes, it also helped revive a city. “I’m very proud of what we’ve done,” he said. “That’s all.”
And while there are many film festivals in the world, he admits Tribeca needed this one. “Yeah, we did, I think.”
To watch a trailer for the documentary “Tribeca 25,” click on the video player below:
https://youtu.be/-3ybhlaI2Ac
TRIBECA 25 Official Trailer | Coming to Netflix September 11 by Tribeca on YouTube
For more info:
- Tribeca Festival (Official site)
- “Tribeca 25” debuts on Netflix September 11
Story produced by John D’Amelio. Editor: Steven Tyler.
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