Charlie Kaufman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charlie-kaufman/ What to Watch Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:20:04 +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 Kaufman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/charlie-kaufman/ 32 32 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2025 LINEUP: New Titles From Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-Wook, Kathryn Bigelow, and More https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/venice-film-festival-2025-lineup/ Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:20:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53595 Venice Film Festival 2025 Lineup

The Venice Film Festival is heading back to the Lido for its 82nd edition. Taking place August 27 – September 6, the in-competition lineup features exciting new titles from an array of auteurs, including Park Chan-wook, Jim Jarmusch, Noah Baumbach, […]

The post VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2025 LINEUP: New Titles From Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-Wook, Kathryn Bigelow, and More appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> THE ACTOR Trailer: André Holland Searches for Identity and Love in Duke Johnson’s Labyrinthian Mystery https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/the-actor-duke-johnson/ Wed, 19 Feb 2025 17:56:42 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52625 André Holland and Gemma Chan in THE ACTOR

Stop-motion animation filmmaker Duke Johnson is making his live-action feature debut with The Actor. Johnson, who co-directed the Oscar-nominated Anomalisa with Charlie Kaufman (also an executive producer), adapts Donald E. Westlake’s 2010 novel Memory into a visually beguiling film that […]

The post THE ACTOR Trailer: André Holland Searches for Identity and Love in Duke Johnson’s Labyrinthian Mystery appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> THE ZONE OF INTEREST https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-zone-of-interest/ Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:37:50 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=49829

(Check out Sammy Levine’s movie review for The Zone of Interest, in theaters now via A24. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) There are very few filmmakers whose work I will trek across town in the pouring […]

The post THE ZONE OF INTEREST appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> JACKALS & FIREFLIES: Watch Charlie Kaufman’s Harmonious New Short Film https://www.hammertonail.com/features/jackals-fireflies-short-film/ Tue, 14 Feb 2023 16:38:48 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38870

Look no further if you’re waiting for the next Charlie Kaufman project. The Oscar-winning filmmaker has just released a short film he directed, a love poem of sorts to New York City. Jackals & Fireflies was shot on the Samsung […]

The post JACKALS & FIREFLIES: Watch Charlie Kaufman’s Harmonious New Short Film appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/im-thinking-of-ending-things/ Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:31:58 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33688

(The always idiosyncratic Charlie Kaufman’s latest,  I’m Thinking Of Ending Things, is streaming now on Netflix) Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking Of Ending Things is a solipsistic labyrinth of loneliness and alienation, stark reality and extravagant fantasy. Kaufman is often suffocating […]

The post I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> Indie Memphis Wrap-Up, Part Two https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/indie-memphis-wrap-up-part-two/ Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:43:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25260 (This is the second half of my long-winded wrap-up of Indie Memphis, 2015. Part one can be found here.) After the fun and enlightening The Missing Girl I hit up the hospitality tent before getting my soul crushed with the […]

The post Indie Memphis Wrap-Up, Part Two appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> Greetings From Fantastic Fest https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/greetings-from-fantastic-fest/ Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:16:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25088 The opening week of Fantastic Fest is at the halfway point, but it is not slowing anyone down, and I have seen over a dozen films. There has been plenty to cheer and chat about through the first four days, […]

The post Greetings From Fantastic Fest appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> A Conversation With Terence Nance (AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-terence-nance-an-oversimplification-of-her-beauty/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-terence-nance-an-oversimplification-of-her-beauty/#comments Fri, 22 Jun 2012 14:07:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17745 (An Oversimplification of Her Beauty is now available on DVD through Cinema Guild. It opened theatrically in NYC on Friday, April 26, 2013. It world premiered in the New  Frontier section of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival. Visit the film’s […]

The post A Conversation With Terence Nance (AN OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY) appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-terence-nance-an-oversimplification-of-her-beauty/feed/ 4 DVD RELEASES – 2010/3/2 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-201032/ Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:06:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1802 An interesting, rather well rounded week for new home video releases. Let’s get to it: Fully Recommended The Beaches of Agnes (Cinema Guild) — Playfully linking together experiences and memories, observations and thought, culminating in revelations that are far outside […]

The post DVD RELEASES – 2010/3/2 appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

]]>