Bad Fever Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/bad-fever/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:34:07 +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 Bad Fever Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/bad-fever/ 32 32 A Conversation with Albert Birney & Kentucker Audley (STRAWBERRY MANSION) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/birney-audley/ Wed, 12 May 2021 18:54:13 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34918

There were few films in the Sundance program this year that deserved a deep dive like Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley’s Strawberry Mansion, a film I reviewed as “the sort of quirky independent genre-hopping creative film that we go to film festivals […]

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]]> PERSON TO PERSON https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/person-to-person-review/ Tue, 09 May 2017 16:42:28 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28091

Though at first the emotional stakes may seem low, the more one thinks about the movie the more its profound truths resonate beyond its narrative limits.

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]]> SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: WINTER ‘15 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-winter-15/ Thu, 15 Jan 2015 21:46:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23839 The Oscar nominations were just announced this morning and the Sundance previews are starting to arrive, but we’ve got some even bigger news to drop on the world today… that’s right, it’s time to announce the winner and runner-up in […]

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]]> OPEN FIVE 2 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/open-five-2-film-review/ Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:46:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20198

Kentucker Audley’s Open Five 2 is as sneakily beautiful as it is surprisingly earnest.

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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 BAD FEVER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bad-fever-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bad-fever-film-review/#comments Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:30:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14982

To be clear, Bad Fever isn’t some hip exercise in retro coolness. Defa’s film is a darkly funny, ultimately crushing portrait of a lost soul who is unable to forge the type of connection he so desperately wants.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/bad-fever-film-review/feed/ 1 A Conversation With Dustin Guy Defa (BAD FEVER) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-dustin-guy-defa-bad-fever/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-dustin-guy-defa-bad-fever/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:21:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14998 In the past year, and with only two films, Dustin Guy Defa has firmly cemented himself as one of American independent cinema’s strongest new voices. Premiering at the 2011 SXSW Film Festival and featuring a star-making performance by Kentucker Audley, […]

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