2018 SXSW Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/2018-sxsw-film-festival/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:59:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png 2018 SXSW Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/2018-sxsw-film-festival/ 32 32 FREE SOLO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/free-solo/ Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:35:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30511

Still, the filmmakers remind us that free soloists do, eventually, tend to die doing what they love, so let's hope there's no tragic sequel.

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]]> GARRY WINOGRAND: ALL THINGS ARE PHOTOGRAPHABLE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/garry-winogrand-doc-review/ Sun, 23 Sep 2018 13:13:43 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29162

Garry Winogrand (1928-1984) was an American photographer who became known in the 1950s for his growing work of "street photography," taking candid shots of ordinary people made extraordinary by his expert framing.

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]]> EIGHTH GRADE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/eighth-grade/ Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:41:15 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29434

Recalling other films about fraught teen awakenings like Diary of a Teenage Girl and Me and You and Everyone We Know, Eighth Grade nevertheless charts its own course...

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]]> A Conversation with Nick Kovacic (AGAVE: SPIRIT OF A NATION) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/nick-kovacic-interview/ Tue, 29 May 2018 21:18:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29690

On Tuesday, May 8, 2018, in our mutual hometown of Baltimore, I finally caught up with director Nick Kovacic, whose documentary Agave: The Spirit of a Nation I had watched (and reviewed) at SXSW 2018, two months earlier. Kovacic – a […]

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]]> A Conversation with Jeremy Workman and Matt Green (THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/world-before-your-feet-interview/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/world-before-your-feet-interview/#comments Fri, 18 May 2018 16:51:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29638

I met with director Jeremy Workman (Magical Universe) and his documentary subject, Matt Green, on Sunday, March 13, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss (of Dallas VideoFest) joining me for the […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/world-before-your-feet-interview/feed/ 1 A Conversation with Yuqi Kang (A LITTLE WISDOM) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/yuqi-kang/ Mon, 14 May 2018 18:08:30 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29601 I met with director Yuqi Kang, of the new documentary feature A Little Wisdom (which I also reviewed), on Sunday, March 13, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss (of Dallas VideoFest) […]

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]]> A Conversation with Jenny Murray (¡LAS SANDINISTAS!) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/las-sandinistas-interview/ Wed, 02 May 2018 20:46:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29542 I met with director Jenny Murray to discuss her feature-documentary debut, ¡Las Sandinistas! (which Don Simpson reviewed), on Tuesday, March 13, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival. The film tells the rousing tale of the female revolutionaries who fought, as […]

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]]> A Conversation with Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster (SCIENCE FAIR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/science-fair-interview/ Tue, 01 May 2018 16:01:37 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29522

I met with directors Cristina Costantini and Darren Foster on Sunday, March 13, at the 2018 SXSW Film Festival, with my Fog of Truth podcast colleague Bart Weiss (of Dallas VideoFest) joining me for the conversation to discuss Science Fair, their award-winning crowd-pleaser of a documentary […]

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]]> THE NEW ROMANTIC https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-new-romantic/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 20:47:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29506

When is the last time you’ve been swept off your feet by someone you swiped right on Tinder? Exactly.

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]]> SOCIAL ANIMALS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/social-animals-review/ Tue, 24 Apr 2018 20:01:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29487

A peppy examination of the role that the photo-sharing network Instagram plays in our lives – or, rather, the lives of teenagers – today, "Social Animals" (presented as "social_animals" in its opening title sequence) offers compelling characters adrift in the ever-shifting rules of the social-media universe.

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