Abel Ferrara Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/abel-ferrara/ What to Watch Wed, 13 Aug 2025 14:03:00 +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 Abel Ferrara Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/abel-ferrara/ 32 32 MARTY SUPREME Trailer: Timothée Chalamet is a Ping Pong Prodigy in Josh Safdie’s Drama https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/marty-supreme-timothee-chalamet-josh-safdie/ Wed, 13 Aug 2025 13:56:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53789 Timothee Chalamet in Josh Safdie's MARTY SUPREME

With his brother Benny making his solo directing outing later this year with his MMA drama The Smashing Machine, Josh Safdie is crafting his vision with a sports drama of his own just in time for Christmas. Marty Supreme takes […]

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]]> PADRE PIO Trailer: Shia LaBeouf Finds Faith in Abel Ferrara’s Historical Drama https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/padre-pio/ Wed, 10 May 2023 22:07:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39435

Abel Ferrara’s latest film Padre Pio had its world premiere at last year’s Venice Film Festival. It will be released in the U.S. in just a few weeks time, courtesy of Gravitas Ventures. Shia LaBeouf stars as the titular figure, […]

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]]> IDFA DocLab Presents Liminal Reality: 5 New VR Projects (and One Encore Experience) I’m Hoping to Catch in 2022 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/idfa-doclab-22/ Mon, 29 Nov 2021 19:20:48 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35880

For the past decade and a half the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, the world’s largest nonfiction fest, has both incubated and showcased our digital future through its perennially impressive IDFA DocLab. And this latest hybrid edition’s Liminal Reality program […]

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]]> Remembering Bob Hoskins… “A Man So Quick, He’s Even Fast Asleep” https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/remembering-bob-hoskins-a-man-so-quick-hes-even-fast-asleep/ Fri, 02 May 2014 19:59:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23272 There was something about him. Pugnacious. His voice like gravel. But something in his skin, so tangible and physical that it made you feel like you could reach through the screen and touch it if you wanted to. I first […]

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]]> A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry (THE COLOR WHEEL) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 16:38:42 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17202 Since the long planned HTN conversation between myself and Alex Ross Perry was also shaping up to be his last—at least with regards to his film The Color Wheel‘s impending theatrical release in New York City (on Friday, May 18, […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/feed/ 6 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/444-last-day-on-earth-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/444-last-day-on-earth-film-review/#comments Mon, 26 Mar 2012 14:59:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=15717

4:44 Last Day on Earth is peppered with moments of similarly well-intentioned futility, and Ferrara is clearly keyed into the various ways in which people try to calm (or at least distract) themselves as they feel the walls closing in.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/444-last-day-on-earth-film-review/feed/ 1 TAKE SHELTER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/take-shelter-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/take-shelter-film-review/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:30:57 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=13237

Take Shelter is a modern American masterpiece.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/take-shelter-film-review/feed/ 4 FOUR DAYS IN OCTOBER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/#comments Tue, 05 Oct 2010 17:56:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6470

Hey Yankees fans, wanna revisit the 2004 ALCS when your hated rival the Boston Red Sox made a historic comeback from 0-3 to beat you in game 7? Then this is the film for you! Ahahahahahaha!!!

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/four-days-in-october-film-review/feed/ 2 DVD RELEASES 2010/5/4 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-may-4-2010/ Tue, 04 May 2010 15:02:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3538 Today brings another new slate of DVD releases that doubles nicely as a revue of what the the film festival circuit looked had to offer in 2008 and 2009. If your life keeps you from taking advantage of your local […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/4/6 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-201046/ Tue, 06 Apr 2010 09:04:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1794 This week brings the home video release of two highly acclaimed independent American dramas, which will hopefully enable them to reach a much wider audience. Also, a gonzo batshit film from Werner Herzog, a gonzo batshit foreign film that must […]

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