2017 SXSW Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail

A Follow-Up Interview with Erik Ljung (THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP)

Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:09:12 +0000

(Erik Ljung’s SXSW 2017-premiering doc The Blood is at the Doorstep is having screenings this spring to commemorate the death of one of the film’s subjects, Dontre Hamilton. Those dates can be found here.) It’s been a year since I first caught Erik […]

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A Conversation with Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein (THE STRANGE ONES)

Christopher Reed — Fri, 22 Dec 2017 18:03:57 +0000

I met with directors Christopher Radcliff and Lauren Wolkstein on Sunday, May 7, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival. We discussed The Strange Ones (which I reviewed at SXSW), their feature adaptation of an earlier short film (of the same […]

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MR. ROOSEVELT

Jessica Baxter — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 17:20:33 +0000

You may think you know where this is going, but I promise, you don’t. Wells’ film vehemently eschews Rom Com tropes.

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A Conversation With Luke Korem (DEALT)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 13:00:02 +0000

I met with director Luke Korem on Tuesday, March 14, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss his second documentary feature, Dealt (which I also reviewed), which just won the Audience Award for films in the Documentary Feature Competition category. An extremely […]

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INFINITY BABY

Jessica Baxter — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 17:02:48 +0000

For the uninitiated, Byington’s films are best describes as Twilight Zone Todd Solondz with jokes.

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BENDING THE ARC

Christopher Reed — Fri, 06 Oct 2017 17:26:12 +0000

Beautifully shot and edited, the movie does justice to its subjects. Still, it has that promo-video quality, at times – approaching hagiography – that detracts from its perfection.

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EASY LIVING

Christopher Reed — Thu, 14 Sep 2017 15:10:26 +0000

But rest assured, dear reader, that when I call Easy Living, director Adam Keleman's directorial debut, a perfect gem of a movie, I mean it.

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A Conversation with Janicza Bravo (LEMON)

Christopher Reed — Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:17:41 +0000

I met with director Janicza Bravo on Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed her first feature, the experimental narrative Lemon, which premiered at Sundance (and was reviewed at SXSW by our very own Don […]

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A Conversation with Jeff Malmberg (SPETTACOLO)

Christopher Reed — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:39:04 +0000

I spoke by phone with filmmaker Jeff Malmberg, co-director of Spettacolo, on Thursday, June 8, 2017, the week before his film was slated to play at AFI DOCS 2017 in Washington, DC. I reviewed the film – a documentary about how […]

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A Conversation with Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley (SYLVIO)

Christopher Reed — Wed, 17 May 2017 15:42:29 +0000

I met with directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley on Sunday, May 7, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed their collaboration on Sylvio, which premiered at SXSW (where it was reviewed by our very own Don Simpson). […]

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