https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/welcome-to-pine-hill-film-review/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 17:28:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/welcome-to-pine-hill-film-review/#comment-16128 Fri, 03 Jan 2014 15:47:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17494#comment-16128 […] Tiger Tail In Blue (Frank V. Ross) Read: HTN REVIEW Welcome to Pine Hill (Keith Miller) Read: HTN REVIEW ***WATCH*** Amazon Instant / iTunes Zero Charisma (Katie Graham and Andrew Matthews) ***WATCH*** […]

]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/welcome-to-pine-hill-film-review/#comment-15095 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 14:47:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17494#comment-15095 […] Welcome to Pine Hill (Keith Miller, USA, 80m, 4:30pm) — Welcome to Pine Hill is a quiet visual exploration of race, class and daily experience conveyed with an intensity born from lead actor Shannon Harper and writer/director Miller’s full understanding of the film medium’s true potential. One of the aspects of cinema that I most appreciate is its ability to compress and expand narrative time as well as its unique ability through acting to meld both amateur and professional techniques to create an experience that is both a familiar yet transformative representation of our own lives. When the theater darkens and a movie begins, our typical time markers should be erased and we should be immersed into an experience of time, character and space, which then becomes its own narrative. Welcome To Pine Hill does have plot points, which I won’t give away here, but they alone are not the explanation for why this film is so transporting. It’s the filmmaker’s ability to master the passage of narrative and screen time in such a way that we are reminded that there is only one real story that we are all part of: the countdown of our own biological clocks. (MSR) *Read The Full HTN Review* […]

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