Charles Burnett Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charles-burnett/ What to Watch Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:07:45 +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 Charles Burnett Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charles-burnett/ 32 32 MY BROTHER’S WEDDING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/my-brothers-wedding/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:07:45 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=55102

(Check out Brandon Wilson’s My Brother’s Wedding movie review. Charles Burnett’s second film has recieved the 4k treatment that was premiered this week at the Berlin International Film Festival. It wil hit American cinemas soon. Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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]]> A Conversation with Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/charles-burnett/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:59:32 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53083

Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART TEN: TANGERINE (2015) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-10/ Wed, 23 May 2018 17:26:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29660 “There is a class of people in this world who have fallen into the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, and who are deprived not only of all social consideration but also, in everybody’s opinion, of the specific human […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-4/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29303 Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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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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]]> Times Change Inside BAMCinematek’s 1980s Time Capsule https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/times-change-inside-bamcinemateks-1980s-time-capsule/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:49:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24913 (BamCinematek has really been bringing some amazing retrospectives to Brooklyn of late. From their John Carpener retrospective to their look at cinematic memory with “The Vertigo Effect” those of us who don’t live on the east coast are getting mighty jealous of those […]

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]]> TREEFORT FILM FEST ’14: WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/treefort-film-fest-14-wrap-up/ Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:43:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23054 Elsewhere in Idaho, Treefort Film Fest serves as a perfect counterpoint to the previous week’s Sun Valley Film Festival. Younger, edgier, and at a much lower altitude, Treefort’s film component is a brand new addition to a much larger festival […]

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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #5 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-5/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1500 Apologies for missing December but we had our hands full with both our Top 25 of the Decade post and our 2009 Hammer to Nail Awards. And though not everyone could make the deadline this month, there are more than […]

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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #1 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-1/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:07:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=72 Good morning, class. Are you ready to participate in Hammer to Nail’s new monthly film history seminar? Credit goes to Mike S. Ryan for coming up with the spark for this new list idea, in which our core stable of […]

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]]> WHOLE SHOOTIN’ MATCH, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/the-whole-shootin-match-film-review/ Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:58:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=760

(Long overdue, The Whole Shootin’ Match is finally being released by Watchmaker Films in a special DVD package that would have made Eagle Pennell proud. Buy it at Amazon.) Eagle Pennell’s The Whole Shootin’ Match is one of those films […]

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