Adam Bhala Lough Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/adam-bhala-lough/ What to Watch Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:51:38 +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 Adam Bhala Lough Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/adam-bhala-lough/ 32 32 SXSW 2025 First Wave Lineup: New Films From Jay Duplass, Matt Johnson, Chad Hartigan, and More to Premiere in Austin https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sxsw-2025-first-wave-lineup/ Wed, 22 Jan 2025 23:43:55 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52434 SXSW 2025 First Wave Lineup

The first round of the lineup for the 2025 SXSW Film & TV Festival is finally here! The festival is scheduled to run in Austin, Texas from March 7 through 14. It will have 96 features in total, including 82 […]

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]]> A Conversation with Adam Bhala Lough (ALT-RIGHT: AGE OF RAGE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/adam-bhala-lough/ Tue, 30 Oct 2018 18:08:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30330 Call it luck, or call it the finely honed instincts of an artist in tune with his times: Adam Bhala Lough might be the most prescient documentary filmmaker at work in the U.S. right now. After launching his career with […]

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]]> SXSW ’15: Mike S. Ryan’s Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sxsw-15-mike-s-ryans-wrap-up/ Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:45:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24261 Real Cinema is still being made despite being now dwarfed at this festival by TV, technology and sports conferences running concurrently. There’s even rumors of some sort of food conference being added next year which only added to our sense […]

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]]> BELLFLOWER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bellflower-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bellflower-film-review/#comments Thu, 04 Aug 2011 17:00:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=7810

Bellflower is an explosive, outrageous, and dynamic first film that lives way outside the margins of what we call indie film today.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bellflower-film-review/feed/ 3 SUNDANCE ‘09: Sunday, January 18th https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-%e2%80%9809-sunday-january-18th/ Tue, 19 Jan 2010 20:32:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3166 Six movies today. Almost seven but I didn’t want to sell myself short with Tze Chun’s Children of Invention, which is one of my most anticipated films of this year’s festival. Therefore, I’m seeing that first thing Tuesday morning. Once […]

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]]> THE 2009 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2009-hammer-to-nail-awards/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2009-hammer-to-nail-awards/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=594 Welcome to the second annual Hammer to Nail Awards! The ever-increasing torrent of end-of-the-year lists and trophies can become an overwhelming blur, which is just one of the reasons why we here at HTN have made a commitment to do […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2009-hammer-to-nail-awards/feed/ 1 Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 1 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/filmmaker-reflections-the-2000s-vol-1/ Mon, 07 Dec 2009 10:55:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2858 This year, the normally one-fisted punch of “Best of” lists has come from both sets of knuckles, which can be both exhilarating and exhausting. While we finalize our own Best of ‘09 and Best of The ’00s posts, we wanted […]

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]]> Watch WEAPONS Original Opening Scene https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/watch-weapons-original-opening-scene/ Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:26:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=974 This is not to be missed: the original opening scene of Adam Bhala Lough’s Weapons, as it appeared at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. As the YouTube description explains, the UGK song “One Day (DJ Screw Mix)” was unable to […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2009/11/17 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-20091117/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:22:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1356 Well, whaddya know, Thanksgiving’s come early this year, as today brings us the home video release of two of the best new American films of 2009. One is a fiction comedy that plays like a documentary, and the other is […]

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]]> A Conversation With Adam Bhala Lough (WEAPONS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-adam-bhala-lough-weapons/ Wed, 20 May 2009 19:47:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=268 Last month Lionsgate Films, a company that has, in its pursuit of horror and niche thriller breakouts, let more than a few recent genre gems whimper out into the obscurity as DVD only releases (JT Petty’s apocalyptic Western The Burrowers […]

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