Yasujiro Ozu Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/yasujiro-ozu/ What to Watch Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +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 Yasujiro Ozu Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/yasujiro-ozu/ 32 32 SOUND FOR SILENTS; THE SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL 2025 https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sfsff-2035/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54421

Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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]]> MAGDALENA VIRAGA https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/magdalena-viraga/ Mon, 07 Mar 2022 22:05:35 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36416

(Nina Menkes will be honored with a comprehensive retrospective at BAM March 4-10 and the American Cinematheque March 12-26. Additional cities to be announced. Jonathan Marlow has this movie review of Magdalena Viraga. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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]]> I WAS A SIMPLE MAN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/i-was-a-simple-man/ Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:08:34 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34126

(The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28- February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the U.S.. Hammer to Nail is bringing you a ton of coverage so, keep coming back! Like what you see here on Hammer to […]

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]]> THE CALMING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-calming/ Tue, 29 Sep 2020 15:49:00 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33463

(The 2020 New York Film Festival (their 58th!) runs September 17-October 11. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Lin Tong is a documentary director in the midst of a […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE STORY OF THE LAST CHRYSANTHEMUM https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/story-of-the-last-chrysanthemum/ Tue, 06 Dec 2016 23:48:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27271

(As you may have noticed, it’s holiday season! As a result, Hammer to Nail is going to bust out some reviews of the latest and greatest Criterion Blu Rays as well as re-running reviews and interviews of films that are […]

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]]> RIGHT NOW, WRONG THEN https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/right-now-wrong-then-film-review/ Fri, 09 Oct 2015 18:31:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25097

(Right Now, Wrong Then receives its U.S. premiere this Friday, October 9, as part of the New York Film Festival. Additional screenings will follow this Saturday and Sunday. Go here for more information.) The South Korean writer/director Hong Sang-soo is […]

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]]> 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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]]> Cannes 2012 Dispatch #6: Gently, Last Summer https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-6-gently-last-summer/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-6-gently-last-summer/#comments Tue, 22 May 2012 13:52:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17293 Hong Sang Soo’s In Another Country and Abbas Kiarostami’s Like Someone In Love If anything, a couple of days at the Cannes Film Festival quickly teaches you to ac-cent-tchu-ate the positive. Competition disappointments aplenty (the latest one being Andrew Dominik’s […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-6-gently-last-summer/feed/ 1 DVD RELEASES 2010/7/13 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-july-13-2010/ https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-july-13-2010/#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 13:49:25 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5268 Let’s keep things short and sweet this week: Picks Here & There (Lightyear) — Buy it on DVD. Harmony and Me (Harmony and Me, LLC) — Buy it on DVD. Greenberg (Focus Features) — Buy it on DVD or Blu-ray. […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-july-13-2010/feed/ 1 MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS – August 28, 2009 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/movies-on-big-screens-august-28-2009/ Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:17:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2500 Well, folks, it’s another absolutely loaded weekend in New York City theaters. We’ll get to new releases first, then point you in the direction of enough enticing repertory action to keep you in the dark all weekend long: NEW RELEASES […]

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