2016 Sundance Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail

A Conversation With Michal Marczak (ALL THESE SLEEPLESS NIGHTS)

Christopher Reed — Tue, 11 Apr 2017 23:28:11 +0000

I recently spoke by phone with Polish filmmaker Michal Marczak on the occasion of the recent theatrical release of his 2016 Sundance-winning documentary hybrid feature All These Sleepless Nights (which I reviewed last year). A beautifully shot, elliptical meditation on […]

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A Conversation With Matthew Ross (FRANK & LOLA)

Michael Tully — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 14:09:13 +0000

Matthew Ross’s noir-tinged drama Frank & Lola world premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival, where it was picked up for distribution by Universal Pictures. Starring Michael Shannon, Imogen Poots, Emmanuelle Devos, Michael Nyqvist, and Justin Long, Frank & Lola is […]

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A Conversation With Otto Bell (THE EAGLE HUNTRESS)

Christopher Reed — Sat, 19 Nov 2016 00:16:17 +0000

I met with English-born, New York-based director Otto Bell at the 2016 Middleburg Film Festival on Sunday, October 23, 2016, to discuss his feature-length documentary debut, The Eagle Huntress, in which he tells the story of how a 13-year-old girl, […]

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SONITA

Christopher Reed — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 16:02:38 +0000

"Sonita" Asks Essential Questions About the Nature of Documentary Filmmaking

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THE EAGLE HUNTRESS

Christopher Reed — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 17:40:02 +0000

In "The Eagle Huntress," a Young Kazakh Woman Breaks Down Gender Barriers

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FIRST GIRL I LOVED

Jessica Baxter — Sun, 16 Oct 2016 20:40:55 +0000

Writer/director Kerem Sanga’s First Girl I Loved is an astoundingly accurate depiction of the agony of first heartbreak...

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CAMERAPERSON

Christopher Reed — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 19:42:03 +0000

"What does it mean to film another person? How does it affect that person – and what does it do to the one who films?"

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A Conversation with Andrew Ahn (SPA NIGHT)

Nelson Kim — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 17:27:12 +0000

(Spa Night opens today at the Metrograph in NYC, and on August 26 at the Sundance Sunset in West Hollywood, with a VOD/DVD/Blu-ray release planned for later this year. Go here to find out more.) Writer/director Andrew Ahn first came […]

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DON’T THINK TWICE

Don R. Lewis — Sat, 23 Jul 2016 21:19:28 +0000

For a gifted storyteller like Birbiglia to translate his one-man show routines to satisfying character pieces onscreen speaks volumes for his career as is and it’ll be exciting to see where he goes next.

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Mike S. Ryan Goes Deep Into the “Dark Night”

Mike S. Ryan — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:20:49 +0000

Sundance theaters are spread out over a wide valley and they are linked by a bus shuttle service that runs festivalgoers between the various theaters. Often these busses are packed with people who just got out of a theater and […]

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