I wrote a long post on Saturday about the whopping 50 percent price hike for most tickets at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival and the pointed initial reaction by some film bloggers. Today, I’d like to turn the pulpit over to a blogger who calls herself Reb. She identifes herself as a professor at a college that serves as a Tribeca venue (BMCC? Pace?) and shares her reaction in a post on her blog that she headlines “The Once Friendly Tribeca Film Festival Prices the Rest of Us Right Out.” As Reb puts it, “I just checked the Tribeca Film Festival program to find that the once fun & public friendly film-fest has changed its ticket pricing policy. Last year, tickets were $12.00 with a $1.00 internet surcharge. This year, most screenings are $18.00 – with $2.00 internet surcharges. Indiewire has a piece about it, and notes that festival promoters in other cities, where ticket prices remain similar to those in local theaters are ‘surprised.’

“My reaction is more like disgust — and I see that I’m not alone in that,” Reb contines. “It already annoys me that the TFF uses the building that I work in and does not give a discount to either students or teachers there, but does give discounts to people who live in Tribeca, among the most expensive zip codes in the United States. Given the facts that many of the good movies shown at the festival will eventually make it to major distribution on DVD or in theaters, that there are many other things to do in NY, that there are a number of good film venues that regularly show better films (Film Forum/MOMA/Anthology/Walter Reade) and that critics have often responded with skepticism to the programming choices at TFF, I can’t think of this as a smart business move. I will suck it up and pay to see the restored print of “Attica”, & possibly the new Forgacs movie if they have a “cheap” daytime screening. Otherwise, I’ll just be waiting for their releases, just like I waited for “Who Killed the Electri Car?”; “Jesus Camp” and that Jonestown doc. to come out on DVD. So for my big festival fun, perhaps I’ll be hitting the NY Underground Film Festbefore it’s over and then waiting for the Sundance at BAM.

“Too bad, too bad!,” Reb concludes. “It’s really too bad that the prohibitive ticket prices will keep local kids from getting a chance to see Melvin Van Peebles in person at the first screening of ‘Blackout.’ ”

There are also some even sharper, and in some cases unprintable, reactions on the comments page at Gothamist.

By the way, Tribeca will be offering discount passes to AARP members for the first time this year. But only to daytime screenings.

We’d love to hear what you think. If you don’t want to post a comment below, feel free to e-mail me at lou.lumenick@nypost.com