David Duchovny discusses new film ‘Bucky F*cking Dent’ at Tribeca Festival world premiere 

David Duchovny on the red carpet for the premiere of ‘Bucky F*cking Dent.’

Photo by Dean Moses

David Duchovny returned to the director’s chair for the first time since 2004 at the Tribeca Festival on Saturday with ‘Bucky F*cking Dent,’ a film for which he not only wrote the screenplay for, but also a book of the same name. 

Celebrities line the red carpet of the BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center on Chambers Street on the fourth day of the Tribeca Festival, beneath the bright lights of a marquee promoting ‘Bucky F*cking Dent.’ The likes of Duchovny, Stephanie Beatriz, Logan Marshall-Green and the rest of the film’s cast attended its world premiere alongside celebrity guests such as Red Sox Hall of Famer Pedro Martinez, Matthew Broderick and Anthony Hill.

‘Bucky F*cking Dent’ is a heartbreaking drama focusing on a dying father and his son who attempted to rekindle their strained relationship, but talking about their feelings outright seems to be too difficult. Instead, the pair communicate through the language of baseball. It is through this lens Duchovny unearths a hidden language between the two men, their love of baseball and, deep down, each other. 

Duchovny said he’d been tinkering away at the story for the last 15 years — from the original screenplay to the novel released in 2016, and now the world premiere of the film at the Tribeca Festival. It is a tale that intertwines the age-old rivalry of the Yankees and Red Sox and the Curse of the Bambino — a superstition that began after Babe Ruth was traded from the Red Sox to the Yankees for the total sum of $100,000 in 1919 and, since then, they never won a world series (until 2004, when Duchovny last sat in the director’s chair) — with a father and son’s complicated relationship. 

“I wrote it as a screenplay probably 15 years ago, I had trouble getting it made,” Duchovny said. “I turned it into a novel because I still wanted to tell the story, and that was…