Allison Anders Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/allison-anders/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:38:30 +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 Allison Anders Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/allison-anders/ 32 32 ONLY IN THEATERS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/only-in-theaters/ Thu, 19 Jan 2023 17:09:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38715

(Raphael Sbarge’s Only in Theaters opens Friday, January 20 in New York before making it’s way across the U.S. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In a theatrical model where only the latest blockbusters find a home, […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART SEVEN: SHOTGUN STORIES (2007) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-7/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:05:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29448 Jeff Nichols’ award-winning directorial debut Shotgun Stories is a flawless film. This quality is a crucial distinction to make in discussing a film as part of my continuing “On theFringe” series, as this factor sets the movie apart from its (predecessor) compatriot pictures […]

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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 FIVE: PERMANENT VACATION (1980) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-5/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29357 One of the many hurdles over which I’ve needed to continuously hop in my “On the Fringe” series is the urgency to come up with synonyms and, ultimately, euphemisms for the descriptor “deceptively simple” in the proper encapsulation of films […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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]]> A Conversation With Leah Meyerhoff, Natalia Dyer and Peter Vack (I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-leah-meyerhoff-natalia-dyer-peter-vack-i-believe-in-unicorns/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:09:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23092 (I Believe In Unicorns world premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival and just won the Narrative Feature Award at the Atlanta Film Festival. This week, it screens at the Florida Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, and Sarasota Film Festival. […]

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]]> A Conversation with Jon Moritsugu (PIG DEATH MACHINE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jon-moritsugu-pig-death-machine/ Fri, 31 May 2013 14:52:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20872 (Two retrospectives of Jon Moritsugu’s films are launching simultaneously on Saturday, June 1, 2013—at the Spectacle Theater in Brooklyn and the Roxie Theater in San Francisco—along with an exclusive online run of his newest feature Pig Death Machine on Fandor. […]

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