Breathless Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/breathless/ What to Watch Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +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 Breathless Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/breathless/ 32 32 A Conversation with Richard Linklater (NOUVELLE VAGUE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/linklater-nouvelle-vague/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54439

Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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]]> NOUVELLE VAGUE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/nouvelle-vague/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:45:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54291

(The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his Nouvelle Vague movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Franco-Swiss filmmaker […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BREATHLESS https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/curbside-criterion/breathless/ Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:49:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40831

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook wanders the […]

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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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]]> GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/guy-and-madeline-on-a-park-bench-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/guy-and-madeline-on-a-park-bench-film-review/#comments Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:54:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=7066

Sneakily ambitious, nearly without narrative, unable to contain its joie de vivre, old school/aware of its influences and yet unlike anything you've ever seen before, this is the type of picture that can give you faith in the creative vision of privileged twenty-somethings yet again.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/guy-and-madeline-on-a-park-bench-film-review/feed/ 2 DVD RELEASES 2010/9/14 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/september-14-2010/ Tue, 14 Sep 2010 12:57:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6057 Recommended Looking For Eric (MPI Home Video) — Ken Loach just about bites off more genres than he can chew in this story of a downtrodden single father whose life is falling apart, until his hero, ex-Manchester United footballer Eric […]

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]]> TWO IN THE WAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=4228

(Two In The Wave was picked up for distribution by Lorber Films and is now available on DVD. It opened theatrically at the Film Forum on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010. Visit the Film Forum’s page for the film to learn […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/feed/ 1 IN THE REALM OF OSHIMA https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/foreign/in-the-realm-of-oshima-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/foreign/in-the-realm-of-oshima-film-review/#comments Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:19:06 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1562 (Before BAM’s two-week retrospective The Cruel Stories of Nagisa Oshima has run its course, we’ve decided to repost Nelson Kim’s essay in conjunction with the 2008 NYFF sidebar tribute to Oshima last fall.) What we think of as the canon […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/foreign/in-the-realm-of-oshima-film-review/feed/ 1 JLG IN USA (THE BELIEVER’S 2009 FILM ISSUE DVD) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/jlg-in-usa-dvd-review/ Thu, 26 Mar 2009 21:54:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2604 (The Believer’s 2009 Film Issue is on newsstands now. Visit The Believer’s official website to subscribe to the magazine and secure a copy of the JLG in USA DVD.) No matter how many times I gleefully subject my unsuspecting roommate […]

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]]> SXSW ‘09: Friday/Saturday Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sxsw-%e2%80%9809-fridaysaturday-wrap-up/ Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:03:15 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1790 It appears that the gray chilliness has passed and the pre-summer sunshine has arrived for the rest of the festival. Which is good, because I only brought one sweater and had begun to feel like a low-rent Mr. Rogers. Here […]

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