1980s Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/1980s/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:31:17 +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 1980s Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/1980s/ 32 32 DVD RELEASES 2010/9/21 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/september-21-2010/ Sat, 18 Sep 2010 15:59:52 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6065 Today is big, folks. Like, really, really big. Not only is one monumental nonfiction DVD boxed set being released; two are. For anyone who’s caught the briefest snippets of these masterworks, the importance of having these titles commercially available—as opposed […]

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]]> BIRTH OF BIG AIR, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-birth-of-big-air-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-birth-of-big-air-film-review/#comments Thu, 29 Jul 2010 14:18:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5531

(The Birth of Big Air premieres Thursday, July 29th, at 7pm on ESPN. Visit the film’s page at the 30 For 30 website to learn more.) Two things are made abundantly clear while watching The Birth of Big Air, Jeff […]

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(Cropsey is now available on DVD through Breaking Glass Pictures. It opened theatrically in New York City on Friday, June 4, 2010, at the IFC Center, before expanding to more cities in the following weeks and months. It was also […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/cropsey-film-review/feed/ 2 U, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-u-film-review/ Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:07:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2726

(The final installment in the fall ’09 edition of ESPN’s 30 For 30 Series, The U premieres Saturday, December 12, at 9pm on ESPN. Go here for a full screening schedule.) For college football fans—and especially those of you (or […]

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]]> A Conversation With Ti West (THE HOUSE OF THE DEVIL) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-ti-west-the-house-of-the-devil/ Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:12:37 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=120 Ti West isn’t even thirty years old, but with his latest feature, The House of the Devil, he has already proven himself to be a maestro of the horror genre. After making two well received micro-budget features—The Roost and Trigger […]

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]]> TRIBECA SNAPSHOTS: CROPSEY & ENTRE NOS – Outer Borough Tales https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/tribeca-snapshots-cropsey-entre-nos-outer-borough-tales/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/tribeca-snapshots-cropsey-entre-nos-outer-borough-tales/#comments Thu, 30 Apr 2009 08:05:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1656 I felt last year that the Tribeca Film Festival was really starting to come into its own. The small sampling of the 2009 selection I have thus far encountered has impressed me even more with its consistency and diversity. Yet […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/tribeca-snapshots-cropsey-entre-nos-outer-borough-tales/feed/ 1 LAST DAYS OF DISCO, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/last-days-of-disco-film-review/ Mon, 13 Apr 2009 20:45:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=684

If Metropolitan remains chaste, fully-clothed, and Barcelona strips down to its swimming trunks, then Disco, the most bawdy member of Stillman's troika, straight-up takes off its pants.

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]]> JLG IN USA (THE BELIEVER’S 2009 FILM ISSUE DVD) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/jlg-in-usa-dvd-review/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:54:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2604 (The Believer’s 2009 Film Issue is on newsstands now. Visit The Believer’s official website to subscribe to the magazine and secure a copy of the JLG in USA DVD.) No matter how many times I gleefully subject my unsuspecting roommate […]

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]]> PAID IN FULL https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/paid-in-full-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/paid-in-full-film-review/#comments Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:51:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2204

(Paid in Full is available on DVD and Blu-ray.) Early on in Charles Stone III’s 2002 crime drama Paid in Full, there’s a scene where Ace (Wood Harris), a straight-and-narrow young man beginning to succumb to the allure of drug […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/paid-in-full-film-review/feed/ 3 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/4-months-3-weeks-and-2-days-film-review/ Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:45:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=256 (Buy 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days at Amazon and visit the film’s IFC page to watch the trailer.) It’s Bucharest, 1987; the Ceausescu regime is entering its final days and Otilia (Anamaria Marinca) has a problem. A college […]

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