2012 SXSW Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail

CHAIR, THE

Michael Tully — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 19:39:05 +0000

Though it’s a fictional tale set in a specific, small community, David still manages to elevate his 12-minute film to a universal, mythic realm.

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PAVILION

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:15 +0000

This is a world in which you, the viewer, are forced to look at the mundane in an immediate and raw way—not unlike how reality was like before we were overwhelmed by cell phones, ‘social media,’ and crafty corporate ‘genius’ markateers who are leading us into the bold, new, insidious frontier of consumerism redefined.

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A Conversation With Bob Byington (SOMEBODY UP THERE LIKES ME)

Sat, 21 Apr 2012 15:00:02 +0000

Bob Byington is a jerk. During our interview, he gave monosyllabic answers, barely made eye contact, and put a cigarette out in my lentil soup. Okay, that didn’t really happen. Truthfully, he was quite amiable albeit under the weather when […]

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SXSW ’12: TULLY’S WRAP-UP

Michael Tully — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 23:23:01 +0000

Aside from the apocalyptic steady downpouring that greeted this year’s SXSW Film Festival, it was another very fun installment with lots of invigorating cinema for the taking (and seriously, thank crizzy-christ for the Alamo theaters, which allow one to actually […]

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