Tom Hall, Author at Hammer to Nail

A Conversation With Arnaud Desplechin (MY GOLDEN DAYS)

Tom Hall — Sat, 19 Mar 2016 03:00:47 +0000

I met with Arnuad Desplechin during his visit to the 2015 New York Film Festival, where he was promoting the festival’s screening of his latest film My Golden Days. We discussed the film, a prequel of sorts to Desplechin’s My […]

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A Conversation With Miguel Gomes (ARABIAN NIGHTS)

Tom Hall — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 18:23:05 +0000

The Portuguese director Miguel Gomes became a name to watch among cinephiles when Tabu, his beautiful, black and white fantasia on the Portuguese colonial system, shook up the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. His follow-up, Arabian Nights, is an epic, three […]

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A Conversation With Margaret Brown (THE GREAT INVISIBLE)

Tom Hall — Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:18:36 +0000

(The Great Invisible is being distributed by RADiUS-TWC and opens theatrically on October 29, 2014. It world premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Visit the film’s website to learn more.) Margaret […]

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A Conversation With Arnaud Desplechin (JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN)

Tom Hall — Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:57:56 +0000

(Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian opens theatrically at The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center on Friday, February 14th, 2014 and on VOD on February 20th, 2014 on various platforms. Visit the […]

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A Conversation With Nina Davenport (FIRST COMES LOVE)

Tom Hall — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 17:26:59 +0000

(Nina Davenport has been making carefully crafted, first-person documentaries for over a decade. After her first film Hello Photo made waves with its beautifully photographed, stylistic approach to nonfiction filmmaking, Davenport switched gears, focusing on her own life and experiences […]

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FRANCES HA

Tom Hall — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:30:42 +0000

Frances Ha is Noah Baumbach's most hopeful film; unburdened by regret, it sings to the rhythms of life and experience, smiling at loss and triumph in equal measure.

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STORIES WE TELL

Tom Hall — Mon, 13 May 2013 13:00:27 +0000

What is so thrilling about Stories We Tell is not that the film ineffably expresses its themes, but rather how it directly confronts them.

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POST TENEBRAS LUX

Tom Hall — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:00:28 +0000

Carlos Reygadas’ Post Tenebras Lux is a landscape of possibility, vibrantly alert to the tensions of class, family and desire, pulsating with life.

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A Conversation With Olivier Assayas (SOMETHING IN THE AIR)

Tom Hall — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:15:30 +0000

(Something In The Air is now available on DVD and at Amazon Instant through MPI Home Video.) It seems I’ve been waiting my entire adult life to talk to Olivier Assayas, so having the chance to actually sit with him […]

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A Conversation with Miguel Gomes (TABU)

Tom Hall — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 16:04:25 +0000

The Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes first drew attention in the United States with his film Our Beloved Month Of August, a brilliant piece of docu-fiction that examined life in Portugal, breaking apart traditions and deeply held cultural beliefs with wry […]

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