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	<title>Hammer to Nail &#187; David Lowery</title>
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		<title>BUILDER, THE &#8211; Setting Down Roots</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(The Builder is now available on DVD through Jagjagjuwar. Buy it here.)
R. Alverson&#8217;s debut feature The Builder was one of the centerpieces of last week&#8217;s New York Times article on record labels jumping into the independent film distribution game; it is being released by the indie imprimatur Jagjagjuwar (home to bands such as Okkervil River [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HARMONY AND ME &#8211; Drawing a Shaky Line</title>
		<link>http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/comedy/harmony-and-me-drawing-a-shaky-line/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Harmony and Me is screening at MoMA through Thursday, September 24, 2009. Visit the film&#8217;s official website to learn more.)
(Editor&#8217;s note: This might very well be our first ever flat-out non-review of a review, but it actually speaks quite well to a dilemma that we have been pondering for quite some time. We are very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>45365 &#8211; Ten Reasons To Visit</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 21:01:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(45365 receives its New York premiere on Saturday, July 11, courtesy of Rooftop Films. The film will be released later this year through Seventh Art Releasing. David Lowery’s full review will be forthcoming, but for now, here’s a sampling).
I had the occasion to spend some time in Ohio this past week, and while I was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AFTER LAST SEASON &#8211; A Semi-Real Experience</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Horror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[In Theatres]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Science Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thriller]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[After Last Season]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camp]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Region]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(After Last Season is currently enjoying a presumably one-week release through Cinemark theaters. Showtimes, locations and the infamous trailer can be found at the official website.) I still don’t know that I buy it.  Which is to say that, having driven 90 minutes to see Mark Region’s After Last Season at a Cinemark megaplex [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CREATIVE NONFICTION &#8211; Diddling With Hegemony</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Creative Nonfiction recently premiered at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. For more information, and to view the trailer, visit the official website.)
What is it about the sexualization of English professors that irks me so? I think of the cliche of the sturdy, masculine educator bewitching his female pupils with silver-tongued erudition on the works of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CHOP SHOP &#8211; Animals, Children and a Vanishing Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 19:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Alejandro Planco]]></category>
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(In conjunction with the upcoming theatrical release of Goodbye Solo, MoMA has selected Ramin Bahrani for their “Filmmaker in Focus” program, running Wednesday, March 4th, through Saturday, March 7th. Or if you don’t live in NYC, you can buy Man Push Cart and Chop Shop at Amazon.)
The final shot of Ramin Bahrani’s Chop Shop is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIELD NOTES FROM DIMENSION X &#8211; Pulp Pathos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Carson Mell]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Carson Mell&#8217;s previous work, including The Writer and Chonto, is available on YouTube. Field Notes From Dimension X was selected for inclusion on Wholphin No. 7. More information on Mell&#8217;s work can be found at his website, www.carsonmell.com.)
Neuroses endear themselves to genre; the format provides a slew of metaphoric hooks on which to hang one&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GOLIATH &#8211; Deadpan Doldrums</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 14:17:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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(Goliath is now available on DVD. Visit the film’s official website to watch the trailer and learn more.)
There is a shot in David and Nathan Zellner’s Goliath that lasts for about the same duration as most of the short films that made the fraternal duo so beloved on the festival circuit, and which, on its [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHOOTING MYSELF IN THE FOOT &#8211; IFP’s Independent Film Week</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I come to you this morning with my critical spectacles removed: I&#8217;ve been asked to cover IFP&#8217;s Independent Film Week not from the perspective of a journalist but as a filmmaker. Certainly, it&#8217;s in this capacity that I&#8217;m attending the market &#8211; a few months ago, my debut feature film effort, St. Nick, landed one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FALL, THE &#8211; A Visual Feast</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:42:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David Lowery</dc:creator>
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(The Fall is now available on DVD. Buy it at Amazon and visit the film&#8217;s official website to watch a trailer.)
How to wax ecstatic about Tarsem Singh&#8217;s The Fall without merely praising the broad strokes of its imagery? Here is one of those rare films for which exegesis is rendered mostly moot by any one [...]]]></description>
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