Cartel Land Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/cartel-land/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:14:43 +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 Cartel Land Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/cartel-land/ 32 32 RETROGRADE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/retrograde-2/ Thu, 08 Dec 2022 18:59:08 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38532

(Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Retrograde which is now streaming on Disney+ and will also be streaming on Hulu December 11. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The opening shots of Matthew Heineman’s Retrograde […]

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]]> RETROGRADE Trailer: Matthew Heineman Takes Us Into the Final Months of the War in Afghanistan https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/retrograde/ Mon, 07 Nov 2022 19:45:17 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38311

Documentarian Matthew Heineman is no stranger to exploring the frontlines of violence and human life. After immersing us in the lives of first responders during the days of COVID-19 lockdown in The First Wave, the war on ISIS in City […]

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]]> A Conversation with Andrew Renzi (READY FOR WAR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/andrew-renzi/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/andrew-renzi/#comments Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:48:46 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31714 I met with director Andrew Renzi (The Benefactor), on Saturday, September 7, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss Ready for War, his new documentary (which I also reviewed). In the film, Renzi follows a number of “deported […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/andrew-renzi/feed/ 2 A Conversation with Jon Kasbe (WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/jon-kasbe/ Tue, 22 May 2018 16:26:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29648 I met with director Jon Kasbe on Saturday, April 21, at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss his debut feature documentary When Lambs Become Lions (which I also reviewed, and which won the festival’s Best Editing in a Documentary […]

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]]> THIS IS CONGO https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/this-is-congo/ Mon, 13 Nov 2017 17:37:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28689

And here I thought that Matthew Heineman, with his 2015 Cartel Land, had set a near-impossible standard of documentary risk-tasking.

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]]> A Conversation With Matthew Heineman & Abdelaziz (Aziz) Alhamza (CITY OF GHOSTS) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/city-of-ghosts-interview/ Tue, 27 Jun 2017 19:48:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28301 I met with documentary director Matthew Heineman and one of his principal subjects, Abdelaziz (Aziz) Alhamza, on Sunday, June 18, 2017, at AFI DOCS 2017, to discuss his new film City of Ghosts (reviewed here). In the movie, Heineman profiles […]

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]]> CITY OF GHOSTS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/city-of-ghosts-review/ Wed, 21 Jun 2017 17:25:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28253

Before watching City of Ghosts, the harrowing new documentary from Matthew Heineman, steel yourself for brutal footage of on-camera executions...

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