(The 2020 Slamdance Film Festival ran January 24-30 in Park City, Utah. Hammer to Nail had boots on the ground at the fest and guarantee more coverage thank any other site out there. Like what you see here on Hammer to […]

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I met with German director Elke Margarete Lehrenkrauss, making her feature debut, on Saturday, January 25, 2020, at the 2020 Slamdance Film Festival, to discuss her magnificent Lovemobil (which I also reviewed), a documentary that takes a raw and close-quarters […]

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We may question the truth of Sasquatch, but never the intriguing specificity of Walker and his world.

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Art that forces the viewer to question and reevaluate assumptions is always worth considering, and here Lehrenkrauss adds layers of details that constantly shift our impressions of the subjects

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Eras pass, and things change, and periods of transition are always tinged with – or, in this case, steeped in – nostalgia. Jasper Mall is like a time machine transporting us to a long-ago age (one that is not, in fact, that long ago), it’s lonely remaining denizens adrift in temporal limbo.

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Given her extremely personal connection to the story, it’s astonishing how deeply she investigates the good and the bad in a person she clearly loves.

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