Cine-Debate Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/category/editorial/cine-debate-editorial/ What to Watch Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:50:39 +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/editorial/cine-debate-editorial/ 32 32 A Conversation with Flora Lau (LUZ) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/flora-lau/ Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:50:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52557

Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025, Luz is an ambitious exploration of reality, connection and redemption from director Flora Lau (Bends). Set across Chongqing, Hong Kong and Paris, the film follows Wei (Xiao Dong Guo), a reformed […]

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]]> A Conversation with Tony Benna (ANDRÉ IS AN IDIOT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/tony-benna/ Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:26:08 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52530

In André Is An Idiot, which premiered in the U.S. Documentary Competition at Sundance 2025 (where it won the Audience Award: U.S. Documentary), first-time feature director Tony Benna crafts an unexpectedly profound portrait of his friend André Ricciardi, a maverick advertising […]

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]]> 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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]]> Burnsided: Why I Can’t Watch The Vietnam War https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/burnsided/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:17:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28601 I’m a longtime doc aficionado, and yet I’ve never understood the appeal of Ken Burns. The limelight-loving director – most recently of the encyclopedic PBS series The Vietnam War (alongside his spotlight-sidelined yet frequent co-director Lynn Novick) – has at […]

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]]> Tony Robbins Is Definitely Not My Guru https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/tony-robbins-is-definitely-not-my-guru/ Mon, 09 May 2016 13:45:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26279 Seeing Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in April marked the first time I ever walked out of a Joe Berlinger film. I’ve been a fan of the Paradise Lost trilogy co-director […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> CINE-DEBATE: Criterion Partners With Hulu Plus, No More Netflix? https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/criterion-partners-with-hulu-plus-no-more-netflix/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/criterion-partners-with-hulu-plus-no-more-netflix/#comments Tue, 15 Feb 2011 16:27:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=8237 This morning, some news went public that at first might seem like no big deal—unless you dig into it a touch deeper. The Criterion Collection‘s Peter Becker just announced a new partnership with Hulu Plus to make the Criterion catalog […]

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