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By: HOME VIDEO PICKS – Hammer to Nail

HOME VIDEO PICKS – Hammer to Nail — Tue, 14 May 2013 15:44:57 +0000

[…] Starlet couldn’t be more different than Sean Baker’s recent micro-budget gems Take Out and Prince of Broadway, it once again proves that he’s one of independent cinema’s shining lights. This California-set […]

By: A Conversation With Sean Baker and Dree Hemingway (STARLET) – Hammer to Nail

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By: HOME VIDEO PICKS – Hammer to Nail

HOME VIDEO PICKS – Hammer to Nail — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 15:14:18 +0000

[…] unexpected and cinematically original with a pixel-vision camera. Read Michael Lerman’s full review as well as my HTN conversation with director Sean Baker. Available on […]

By: Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » A Conversation With Sean Baker

Hammer to Nail » Blog Archive » A Conversation With Sean Baker — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:41:14 +0000

[…] Prince of Broadway and Baker’s previous feature, Take Out (co-directed with Shih-Ching Tsou), are competing for the same trophy at the Spirits: the John Cassavetes Award for best feature budgeted at under $500,000. Take a zero off that number and that’s around what both films cost to make. But though they were lower-than-low-budget productions, they also happen to be two of the finest American social realist pictures of recent memory. Before that, Baker made another feature, Four Letter Words, which found the writer/director probing more personally familiar terrain: a keg-fueled night-in-the-life of a group of friends in suburban New Jersey. He is also a co-creator and creative force behind the cult series Greg the Bunny. But it wasn’t until 2008’s one-two punch of Take Out and Prince of Broadway that Baker had finally arrived (read the Hammer to Nail reviews here and here). […]