Buster Keaton Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/buster-keaton/ What to Watch Tue, 22 Apr 2025 18:48:49 +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 Buster Keaton Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/buster-keaton/ 32 32 SUPERBOYS OF MALEGAON https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/superboys-of-malegaon/ Tue, 22 Apr 2025 17:17:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51652

(The 2024 Toronto International Film Festival ran September 5-15 and HtN has you covered once again. Check out Chris Reed’s Superboys of Malegaon movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Based on real-life events previously profiled in […]

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]]> It’s Time for SF DocFest, 2024 Edition https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sf-docfest/ Thu, 30 May 2024 16:59:57 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50890

Can one lone entry stand-in for all others in a festival faux-preview (aka “curtain-raiser”)? If the documentary-in-question is Film is Dead. Long Live Film!—tracing the pathway of otherwise-lost or forgotten works saved from obscurity or obsolescence thanks to the dedication […]

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]]> A Conversation with David & Nathan Zellner (SASQUATCH SUNSET) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/zellners/ Fri, 19 Apr 2024 20:10:18 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50708

David and Nathan Zellner have been making films together since they were children. David and Nathan have been apart of the indie film world for quite some time, however, it was 2014’s Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter that really put them […]

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]]> BUSTER KEATON’S THE GENERAL & THREE AGES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/thegeneral-three-ages-blu/ Tue, 07 Mar 2017 00:34:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27644

While it would be nice to have more bonus content for a classic like The General, this is still a worthwhile purchase for fans...

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]]> Nelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 1 of 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:31:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27126 (The 54th New York Film Festival, with its carefully curated selection of standout new works of international cinema, has come and gone. Longtime HTN contributors, film-school buddies, and fellow struggling NYC indie filmmakers Nelson Kim and John Magary conducted an […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/feed/ 2 Buster Keaton: The Shorts Collection (1917-1923) Blu-ray https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/buster-keaton-shorts/ Wed, 15 Jun 2016 16:13:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26594

Kino has put together a collection of five Blu-rays that chart Keaton's short film career over the course of 32 shorts produced between 1917 and 1923.

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]]> OH BOY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/oh-boy-film-review/ Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:50:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18765

Actor Tom Schilling and first-time writer/director Jan Ole Gerster have created, in a sense, the ultimate straight man: a character whose passivity and sense of futility become a perfectly black trampoline for whomever he encounters.

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]]> NEW DVD RELEASES 9/15/09 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-91509/ Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:48:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=700 Due to Toronto overload, we’re going to keep it nice and short this week. Be sure to check out the following: Treeless Mountain (Oscilloscope) — So Yong Kim’s follow-up to In Between Days proves that Kim is one of the […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2009/9/15 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-2009915/ Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:32:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1704 Due to Toronto overload, we’re going to keep it nice and short this week. Be sure to check out the following: Treeless Mountain (Oscilloscope) — So Yong Kim’s follow-up to In Between Days proves that Kim is one of the […]

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