Noah Buschel, Author at Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/author/noah-buschel/ What to Watch Wed, 16 Oct 2024 16:00:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Noah Buschel, Author at Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/author/noah-buschel/ 32 32 MONSTER MOVIES https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/monster-movies/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/monster-movies/#comments Mon, 06 Aug 2018 19:20:42 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29956 Donald Trump has a monster movie for you. The Others. It stars the MS-13 street gang (Tagline: “These aren’t people. These are animals.”) It features nasty women, Muslim terrorists, traitorous black athletes, Native American thugs, lying journalists, greedy Asians, disabled freaks, […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/monster-movies/feed/ 3 A Conversation With Khyentse Norbu (VARA: A BLESSING) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-khyentse-norbu-vara-a-blessing/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:30:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23105 A movie I did is premiering at Tribeca Film Festival this year. [Editor’s note: it’s called Glass Chin, and it’s awesome.] When I heard that Khyentse Norbu’s new movie, Vara: A Blessing, was going to be playing at the festival, […]

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]]> THE SUMMERTIME SHOOT ‘EM UP by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:47:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18176 Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight Rises, released a statement after the shooting in Aurora, Colorado, that killed 12 people and wounded more than 70. This part of what Nolan had to say really stuck out to me: “The […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/feed/ 10 LOVE WILL TEAR US APART by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/love-will-tear-us-apart-by-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/love-will-tear-us-apart-by-noah-buschel/#comments Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:39:35 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17952 Gray Madder died the other night. There will be no big funeral parade. Some of his union buddies will have some drinks. Some of his punk rock bandmates will mess around on their guitars and reminisce. Gray was in the […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/love-will-tear-us-apart-by-noah-buschel/feed/ 28 CATCHER IN THE RYE, THE MOVIE https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:52:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=7839 I was going to see a friend’s play called In The Wake at The Public. The other play going on was called Gatz—an unlikely sensation of a play where a bunch of actors read The Great Gatsby in its entirety. […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/feed/ 4 MILLION DOLLAR BABY And The Lost Art of the Metaphor by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:21:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5034 I know a lot of people don’t think much of Million Dollar Baby. The screenwriter was a long time Scientologist and bequeathed on us the atrocity called Crash. There’s a grouchy priest who says wise, grouchy things. And shit, if […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/feed/ 4 VENGEFUL BASTERD https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/vengeful-basterd-by-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/vengeful-basterd-by-noah-buschel/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 19:29:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=978 By jumping genres, Quentin Tarantino has made three straight revenge films without anyone really noticing. He’s been making his version of One-Eyed Jacks over and over, using different costumes to make it seem like different movies.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/vengeful-basterd-by-noah-buschel/feed/ 1 THE SHADOW OF ST. PATRICK’S by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/the-shadow-of-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-by-noah-buschel/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1014 It was John Cassavetes, or so the story goes, who told Martin Scorsese to make personal films. Cassavetes had just watched Boxcar Bertha, and while he appreciated it for what it was—a solid Roger Corman B movie—he knew Scorsese had […]

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]]> FORGOTTEN PHOENIX by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/forgotten-phoenix-by-noah-buschel/ Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:18:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=46 (Having been genuinely moved by filmmaker Noah Buschel’s recent piece at Filmmaker Magazine titled “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Filmmaker,” we were thrilled to receive a new batch of essays from Buschel himself, which we are very proud to […]

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