Benh Zeitlin Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/benh-zeitlin/ What to Watch Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +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 Benh Zeitlin Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/benh-zeitlin/ 32 32 A Conversation with Scott Cummings (REALM OF SATAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/scott-cummings/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53908

“Hey, this isn’t Ken Burns” – Scott Cummings on Realm of Satan The feature-length directorial debut of veteran editor Scott Cummings, Realm of Satan (reviewed here by Chris Reed), is equal parts visually stunning and (no pun intended) wickedly funny. Not to […]

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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 Zachary Wigon (THE HEART MACHINE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-zachary-wigon-the-heart-machine/ Fri, 24 Oct 2014 19:30:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22995 (The Heart Machine was picked up for distribution by FilmBuff and opens theatrically at Cinema Village in NYC on Friday October 24th while simultaneously being made available via Video on Demand. It world premiered in the Narrative Feature Competition at […]

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]]> BORSCHT 8 FILM FESTIVAL https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/borscht-8-film-festival/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:32:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19273

If I had to sum up the Borscht Film Festival in one word it would be ‘youth.’ The Borscht Corp collective dates back to high school friendships formed at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from what I […]

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]]> SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: JULY 2012 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-july-2012/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-july-2012/#comments Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17961 We’re not sure if it was Mike “Sundance/Cinemad” Plante or Benh “Beasts of the Southern Wild” Zeitlin being our judges for our July 2012 contest (of course, we can’t forget about May contest winner Levi Abrino, who rounded things out!), […]

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Beasts of the Southern Wild is spirituality on celluloid.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beasts-of-the-southern-wild-film-review/feed/ 2 Cannes 2012 Dispatch #10: Love, Actually https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-10-love-actually/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-10-love-actually/#comments Sun, 27 May 2012 19:59:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17399 Back in my Polish flat mere hours before the closing ceremony of this year’s festival—my elbows still sore from fighting my way into press screenings—I duly watched the verdict unravel upon my Twitter feed, hitting the ‘refresh’ button incessantly as […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-10-love-actually/feed/ 1 SUNDANCE 2012 STATUS REPORT https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/sundance-2012-mike-s-ryan-status-report/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/sundance-2012-mike-s-ryan-status-report/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 15:14:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14905 (EDITOR’S NOTE: As is all the writing on this site, the opinions expressed within this piece belong solely to Mike S. Ryan, but I believe that Mike’s ire was borne out of his love for ambitious personal cinema and not […]

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]]> A Conversation With Jeff Deutchman (11/4/08) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jeff-deutchman-11-4-08/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jeff-deutchman-11-4-08/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:09:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=288 In the weeks leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, I received an email from Jeff Deutchman, who I first got to know through his job working in acquisitions at IFC Films. Sensing history was about to be made in […]

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