Charlie Chaplin Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charlie-chaplin/ 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 Charlie Chaplin Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charlie-chaplin/ 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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]]> AMERIKATSI Trailer: Michael Goorjian Directs & Stars In A Post-WWII Tale of Hope & Survival https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/amerikatsi/ Wed, 09 Aug 2023 18:33:09 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40147

Emmy-winning actor Michael Goorjian (SLC Punk!) goes deep into his Armenian roots in his award-winning film, Amerikatsi. From his own script, Goorjian stars as an Armenian-American man in 1948 who returns to the country of his birth to connect with […]

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]]> THE REAL CHARLIE CHAPLIN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/real-charlie-chaplin/ Fri, 10 Dec 2021 18:39:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35931

(Check out lead critic Chris Reed’s movie review of the documentary The Real Charlie Chaplin, directed by Peter Middleton and James Spinney. It premieres on Showtime Saturday, December 11. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not […]

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]]> EPICENTRO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/epicentro/ Thu, 27 Aug 2020 19:07:58 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33263

(After winning the World Cinema Documentary Jury Grand Prize at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, director Hupert Sauper’s Epicentro lands on VOD Friday, August 28. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE CIRCUS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/criterion-circus/ Tue, 15 Oct 2019 17:59:17 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31606

(We here at Hammer to Nail 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, our new addition to […]

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]]> WHAT SHE SAID: THE ART OF PAULINE KAEL https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/pauline-kael-doc/ Wed, 21 Nov 2018 21:08:04 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30468

Like or dislike her reviews – and I do both – there is no denying her importance in the history of the movies.

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]]> A Conversation with Paprika Steen and Sofie Gråbøl (THAT TIME OF YEAR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/that-time-of-year-interview/ Mon, 08 Oct 2018 18:07:39 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30228 I met with director/star Paprika Steen and supporting actress Sofie Gråbøl on Saturday, September 8, 2018, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss their collaboration on Steen’s That Time of Year (which I also reviewed), which premiered at the […]

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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 EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-8/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29496 There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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