Cine-Debate Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/cine-debate/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:56:46 +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 Cine-Debate Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/cine-debate/ 32 32 ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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]]> Viewer Beware: Doubting the Documentary “Truth” Onscreen https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/viewer-beware/ Mon, 04 Dec 2017 23:06:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28758 “Fake news” think pieces have been all the rage since Donald Trump took hold of the media spotlight (and never let go), yet far less has been written about questioning the documentary “truths” we see onscreen. While it doesn’t take […]

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]]> On Sundance Walkouts… https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/on-sundance-walkouts/ Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:47:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25545 The last time I was able to attend the Sundance Film Festival was 2012 and it was a great year for smart, offbeat films. One film I was excited for was Rick Alverson’s The Comedy because I had heard tell […]

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]]> Of Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes, or Why “Dear White People” Deserves Another Look https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/of-racial-and-ethnic-stereotypes-or-why-dear-white-people-deserves-another-look/ Wed, 02 Dec 2015 19:01:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25296

Here’s a joke for you: What is Heaven? In Heaven, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian, the police are British, the engineers are German and the bureaucrats are Swiss. What is Hell? In Hell, the cooks are British, […]

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]]> On Shootings in Movie Theaters https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-shootings-in-movie-theaters/ Mon, 31 Aug 2015 22:50:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24986 I decided to take in a Friday matinee of Straight Outta Compton last week because my writing week was (mostly) complete, my wife was at work and my daughter at school. Plus, it’s really hot here in Petaluma, California and […]

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]]> Revisiting Milgram and Zimbardo’s Human Behavior Experiments https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/revisiting-milgram-and-zimbardos-human-behavior-experiments-cine-debate/ Mon, 27 Jul 2015 14:04:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24859 Stanley Milgram and Philip Zimbardo’s Human Behavior Experiments are ripe fodder for both fictional narratives and documentaries. But are their experiments broken from the start? Lauren Wissot makes a good case that they are in our latest installment of "Cine-Debate."

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]]> What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Film Festivals? https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/what-do-we-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-film-festivals/ Tue, 26 May 2015 19:07:04 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24608 (Earlier in May the Bentonville Film Festival in Arkansas raised some shrieks of horror and loud, ironic snickers  when it was discovered the fest, which proclaimed to champion women and diversity, was being sponsored by Walmart. This caught the attention […]

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]]> Roger Ebert, Life Itself, and Conflict of Interest in the Digital Age https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/roger-ebert-life-itself-and-conflict-of-interest-in-the-digital-age/ Tue, 10 Mar 2015 18:34:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24112 (As Hammer to Nail morphs into version 2.0, we still feel this site needs to champion new and truly independent cinema. But with so many filmmakers, critics, writers and industry professionals wearing so many hats, is conflict of interest a […]

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]]> Review: The Beatles Black Album https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/review-the-beatles-black-album/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/review-the-beatles-black-album/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2015 20:11:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24027 (The amazing run of Richard Linklater’s Boyhood basically came to an end last week as the Oscars and Independent Spirit Awards came and went. But the film will live on forever and is guaranteed to be talked about for years to come. […]

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