Agnes Varda Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/agnes-varda/ What to Watch Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:58:47 +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 Agnes Varda Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/agnes-varda/ 32 32 SUBURBAN FURY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/suburban-fury/ Tue, 02 Dec 2025 21:58:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54555

(Check out Lauren Wissot’s Suburban Fury movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Robinson Devor’s Suburban Fury has been in the works for some time. In fact, the team sent out a press release all the way back […]

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]]> EARLY SHORT FILMS OF THE FRENCH NEW WAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/early-short-films-of-the-french-new-wave/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:42:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40454

With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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]]> RAY LOBO AND JONATHAN MARLOW TACKLE BREATHLESS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/lobo-marlow-breathless/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:03:32 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35512

Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (which has a fantastic 4k restoration, plays September 24-October 7 at NYC’s Film Forum) has been analyzed by critics, directors, writers, academics, and cinephiles across the world. Hammer to Nail contributors Jonathan Marlow and Ray Lobo share […]

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]]> A Conversation with Samuel D. Pollard (ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM & SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/sam-pollard-interview/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:41:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29887

(Readers, please note: you can hear a portion of this interview on Chris Reed’s excellent podcast on documentwry filmmaking, The Fog of Truth.) I met with director (and NYU professor) Samuel D. Pollard on Saturday, March 24, at the 2018 […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART SIX: GAS, FOOD LODGING (1992) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/on-the-fringe-6/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29409 Allison Anders’ sophomore feature Gas, Food Lodging is an aspirational film about fantasy. It is in many ways an antithesis of the kind of movies I’ve been chronicling and will continue to discuss with my “On the Fringe” series. Gas, Food Lodging is in fact an […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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]]> FACES PLACES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/faces-places-review/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:47:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28850

Perhaps the greatest joy of this charming documentary, beyond that of seeing the happiness of the movie's subjects, is the vibrant exchange of ideas between Varda and JR, over two generations apart.

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]]> DAPHNE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/daphne-review/ Fri, 31 Mar 2017 17:05:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27872

Oddly enough, I had a hard time not falling in love with Daphne. She lured me in like a Venus flytrap.

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/8/31 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/august-31-2010/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 12:16:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5908 Recommended Red Riding Trilogy (IFC Films) — The Red Riding films are beautifully shot, meticulously cast (with just the right buck-toothed chubsters and pale beauties) and more complex than anything American television audiences are used to. The directors are an […]

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]]> GREAT DIRECTORS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/great-directors-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/great-directors-film-review/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:13:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5376

(Great Directors was picked up for distribution by Paladin Films. It opens at the Quad Cinema in New York City on July 2, 2010, followed by Los Angeles on July 9, 2010.) For a movie called Great Directors, first-time director […]

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