Michael Tully, Author at Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/author/michael-tully/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:38:12 +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 Michael Tully, Author at Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/author/michael-tully/ 32 32 A Conversation With Matthew Ross (FRANK & LOLA) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-matthew-ross-frank-and-lola/ Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:09:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27293 Matthew Ross’s noir-tinged drama Frank & Lola world premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution by Universal Pictures. Starring Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Emmanuelle Devos, Michael Nyqvist, and Justin Long, Frank & Lola is […]

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]]> AT SEA https://www.hammertonail.com/coming-soon/at-sea-film-review/ Sat, 25 Jun 2016 18:00:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=776

(Note: For those in and around New York City, the Museum of Modern Art is currently exhibiting a comprehensive retrospective of Hutton’s work. The 18-film series, Peter Hutton, runs from May 5th through the 26th. This series comes with Hammer […]

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]]> A Conversation With Anna Rose Holmer (THE FITS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-anna-rose-holmer-the-fits/ Thu, 09 Jun 2016 18:25:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26546 (Distributed by Oscilloscope, The Fits opened in NYC on June 3rd, and opens in LA, Cincinnati, and Pasadena on June 10th before expanding into other cities.) Though it’s only her narrative feature debut, Anna Rose Holmer has nonetheless delivered one […]

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]]> SXSW ’16: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sxsw-16-tullys-wrap-up/ Wed, 23 Mar 2016 12:37:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26013 I must be getting old. Or maybe it’s the whole “I actually live in Austin now” thing. Whatever the reason(s), contrary to my own early days attending the SXSW Film Festival (starting in ’06) where I was able to fully […]

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]]> SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ’16: WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sun-valley-film-festival-16-wrap-up/ Wed, 09 Mar 2016 21:50:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25817 This year, the Sun Valley Film Festival turned five. My own experience with film festivals has taught me that slow and steady is the best (make that only) way to sustain the race, and the powers-that-be at Sun Valley—for starters, […]

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]]> THE 2015 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-2015-hammer-to-nail-awards/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:43:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25400 Introduction Greetings HtN readers, this is Don Lewis, Editor of the site and I wanted to welcome you to the 2015 Hammer to Nail Awards. Next month marks my official one-year anniversary of Editor of the site and it’s been […]

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]]> WESTERN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/western-film-review/ Tue, 22 Sep 2015 16:25:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23886

Western is cinematic nonfiction of a superior order.

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]]> A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry (QUEEN OF EARTH) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-queen-of-earth/ Fri, 04 Sep 2015 18:45:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24998 There’s a pretty common pattern in cinema right now—particularly of the low-budget variety—in which filmmakers have embraced the “one location” concept to its suffocatingly fullest. While that doesn’t have to be a bad thing, the examples of work that transcends […]

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]]> A Conversation With John Magary (THE MEND) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-john-magary-the-mend/ Thu, 20 Aug 2015 18:55:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24964 I wrote this about John Magary’s The Mend in my SXSW ’14 Wrap-Up, where I awarded it my own personal Narrative Grand Jury Prize: Oh, to sit down in a theater for an 11am screening, feeling a bit groggy, and […]

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]]> MEN GO TO BATTLE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/men-go-to-battle-film-review/ Sat, 18 Apr 2015 02:25:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24392

Think of this movie as an actual soldier’s letter home, in which the horrors of battle are suppressed in favor of a wry recounting of wartime’s downtime.

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