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That’s a Wrap on the 2023 Vashon Island Film Festival!

Kim Voynar — Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:10:14 +0000

One of the best things about attending a small regional “getaway” fest like the Vashon Island Film Festival is getting to experience a community different from your own. Smaller fests tend to have a “homey” feel, the locals are welcoming, […]

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32 SOUNDS

Melanie Addington — Fri, 21 Jan 2022 23:45:45 +0000

(The 2022 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 all virtually. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of 32 Sounds. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) As a person […]

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It’s Time for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival!

The Editorial Staff — Tue, 21 Jan 2020 14:57:20 +0000

As the headline clearly states, ’tis that time of year for the Sundance Film Festival. Sundance sets the stage for the festival season to come and, sometimes it sets the bar for future award nominated and winning films. Hammer to […]

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A Conversation with Phillip Youmans (BURNING CANE)

Christopher Reed — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:51:12 +0000

First-time director Phillip Youmans won, with Burning Cane, the Founders Award for Best Narrative Feature at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. I reviewed the film back then, finding it a remarkable cinematic achievement for one so young (Youmans was still […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART NINE: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012)

Wed, 02 May 2018 16:52:33 +0000

Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film about the end of the world. Or, more to the point, the end of the universe. More remarkably still, it is also a celebration. A celebration of survival, of freedom and – why not? […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008)

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000

There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000

(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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Jim Brunzell’s Sundance 2018 Wrap-Up…Part Two

Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:42:05 +0000

(The following is part 2 of HtN contributor Jim Brunzell’s wrap up of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Part one can be found here.) A slew of films dealt with family dynamics or lack thereof including, Hereditary and Mandy and the first […]

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Jim Brunzell’s 2017 Sundance Film Festival Wrap-Up, Part 2

Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:12:01 +0000

Every January hundreds of journalists, critics, distributors, publicists, producers, sales agents, filmmakers, and of course, movie enthusiasts head to the mountains of Park City, UT in hopes of catching a glimpse of a film, or two, or in rare cases […]

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A Woman, A Part

Fri, 17 Jun 2016 21:23:05 +0000

A simmering drama about friendship and how it weathers the passage of time, the film feels like a play committed to the screen, and I mean that as a compliment.

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