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	<title>Hammer to Nail &#187; Cullen Gallagher</title>
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		<title>PUTTY HILL &#8211; Serendipitous Encounters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:55:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On the Festival Circuit]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ben Goldberg]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jeremy Saulnier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marc Vives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Matthew Porterfield]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Murder Party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Rush]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Phil Davis]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Sky Ferreira]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(After world premiering at the Berlin Film Festival, Putty Hill has its North American premiere at the SXSW Film Festival in the Emerging Visions section. Visit the film’s official website to learn much more, and read Matthew Porterfield’s insightful essay on the how the film came to be.)
In 2006, Matthew Porterfield gave us Hamilton, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DANIEL AND ABRAHAM &#8211; Rage</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 12:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cullen Gallagher]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[David Williams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gary Lamadore]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamptons International Film Festival]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ryan Eslinger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sleater-Kinney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Lord of the Flies]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[(Daniel and Abraham world premiered at the 2009 Hamptons International Film Festival. Visit the film&#8217;s official website to learn more.)
Typically, when we speak of film as a collaborative art form we mean that the production process involves so many people (be it dozens or hundreds) that, at some level, assigning individual credit is insufficient and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CONFESSIONSOFA EX-DOOFUS-ITCHYFOOTED MUTHA &#8211; The Art and Joy of Storytelling</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 20:35:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comedy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coming of Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Theatres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Musical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Azazel Jacobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ballast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bildungsroman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confessionsofa Ex-Doous-ItchyFooted Mutha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lance Hammer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melvin Van Peebles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[merchant marine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Momma's Man]]></category>
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(Melvin Van Peebles&#8217; latest film is opening in NYC at Cinema Village on Friday, 8/21/09, followed by Chicago on 8/28 and LA on 9/4. NOTE: This review was first posted in conjunction with the Gotham Awards, where Van Peebles was acknowledged for his contribution to independent cinema, as well as MoMA&#8217;s simultaneous salute to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE AT ANTHOLOGY, THE &#8211; Rebel With a Cause</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Experimental]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Theatres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Short Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Study in Choreography for Camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Andre S. Labarthe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anthology Film Archives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bebe Barron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bergdorf Goodman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bigger Thomas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bosley Crowther]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridges-Go-Round]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bright Lights Film Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chelsea]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema verite]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cullen Gallagher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dance in the Sun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dizzy Gillespie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Wiseman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hampton Clanton]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hans Richter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harlem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jack Gelber]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jackie McLean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jacques Rivette]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Dean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Stark]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John Cassavetes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Killer of Sheep]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Louis Barron]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manhattan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Maya Deren]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Meditation on Violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Miles Davis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moment in Love]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Native Son]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Noel Burch]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Open City]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornette Coleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ornette: Made in America]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portrait of Jason]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rebel Without a Cause]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Richard Wright]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Robert Frost: A Lover's Quarrel With the World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberto Rossellini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rome Burns: A Portrait of Shirley Clarke]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Teepee Video Space Troupe]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Connection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Cool World]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Film-Makers' Cooperative]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Films of Shirley Clarke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Living Theater]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Plaza]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the Public Library]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film 1947-1986]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Films of Shirley Clarke screens at Anthology Film Archives from April 22nd-28th, 2009. If you&#8217;re not able to attend, you can purchase the DVD set Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 at Amazon, which includes Clarke&#8217;s 1958 film Bridges-Go-Round.)
“There’s a dissatisfaction with merely going to the movies,” proclaims Shirley Clarke in Noël Burch and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BILLY THE KID &#8211; Rebel, Poet, Loner, Lover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coming of Age]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Documentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[adolescence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asberger's Syndrome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first love]]></category>
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(Billy the Kid screens Sunday night, March 22nd, at 11pm as part of the Cinema Nolita/Hammer to Nail screening series in downtown Manhattan. Visit the official website to watch the trailer and then buy the DVD at Amazon.)
The first time I saw Billy the Kid, I had just come out of a screening of Juno [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MUST READ AFTER MY DEATH &#8211; This American Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[On the Festival Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Magnani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dictaphone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidden secrets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home recordings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home videos]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Morgan Dews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Must Read After My Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roberto Rossellini]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Must Read After My Death opens in New York City at the Quad Cinema on Friday, February 20th, and in Los Angeles at Laemmle&#8217;s Sunset 5 on Friday, February 27th. For those everywhere else, and more interestingly, it opens online tomorrow (the 20th) at GiganticDigital. For just $2.99, viewers can watch the film for three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HONEYMOON KILLERS, THE &#8211; Noir Verite</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Double Indemnity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Noir]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frank Chambers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frederick Wiseman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[James Cain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jim Thompson]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Midnight Cowboy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honeymoon Killers (1969) is more Cain than even James Cain himself. Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, the film’s central lovers/killers, could easily take the place of any of Cain’s partners-in-crime. They’re just as cold-blooded and ruthless as duplicitous wife Phyllis Nirdlinger and insurance agent Walter Huff in Double Indemnity, and just as hot-blooded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ROSSELLINI’S HISTORY FILMS &#8211; The Change and Growth of An Independent Master</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Foreign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On DVD]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aldo Fabrizi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anna Magnani]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[independent cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Italian Neorealism]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Open City]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to think of a more universally influential film than Roberto Rossellini’s Open City (1945). Just as legendary as its story of Rome’s anti-Nazi resistance is the real life circumstances of its production. With the studios bombed, Rossellini takes to the streets, illegally stealing electricity from American military bases in order to run the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TROUBLED WATER &#8211; Moral Dilemmas Played On A Church Organ</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 14:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[accidental crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bridge Over Troubled Water]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cullen Gallagher]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
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(Distributed by Film Movement, Troubled Water is now available on DVD.)
Norwegian director Erik Poppe’s third feature, Troubled Water (DeUsynlige), garnered both the Jury and Audience Awards for Best Narrative Feature at the 2008 Hamptons International Film Festival. Well deserving of both, it’s an arresting probe into morality and forgiveness that leaves one stunned not only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TAKING FATHER HOME &#8211; Low Budget, High Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:31:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cullen Gallagher</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Taking Father Home is a marvel of low-budget filmmaking: a debut feature film shot on a borrowed video camera for less than $5,000, using friends and non-professionals for actors, and all without the permission of the Chinese government. Director Ying Liang trumps every technical and economic limitation through his highly refined visual sensibility, as elegant [...]]]></description>
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