Chris Marker Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/chris-marker/ What to Watch Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:37:10 +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 Chris Marker Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/chris-marker/ 32 32 LA JETÉE THE FIFTH SHOT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fifth-shot-of-la-jetee/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:00:36 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52784

(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to […]

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]]> A Conversation with Patricio Guzmán (Dreaming of Utopia: 50 Years of Revolutionary Hope and Memory) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/patricio-guzman/ Wed, 03 Jan 2024 18:31:40 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=42286

Dreaming of Utopia: 50 Years of Revolutionary Hope and Memory was the outsized title for an equally ambitious nonfiction program presented throughout venues across NYC this past fall. In commemoration of “the first September 11th” – the 1973 coup d’état […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.2) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3-2/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:03:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30100 (The following is the second half of Nick Toti’s interview with Megan Boyle and Tao Lin of MDMAfilms. Part one can be found here.) Hammer to Nail: A lot of reviews of your movies that I’ve read compare the MDMAfilms project […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.1) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30094 This interview is the third and final installment of my series on MDMAfilms. To be as frank as possible, I’m not terribly happy with how this interview turned out, but I think it’s worth publishing regardless. Both Megan Boyle and […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five (Part 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/experimental/digital-gods-2-5-2/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30034 In the last Digital Gods installment, we examined the cultural context surrounding MDMAfilms, the production company created by authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. This article will now look at the actual movies that MDMAfilms produced. Particularly, this piece will […]

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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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]]> HUMAN AFFAIRS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/human-affairs-review/ Sat, 20 Jan 2018 18:51:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28924

Birns remains stoically oblique until the very end, and he deserves a lot of credit for that. This is a film that is intended to trigger many more questions than it has answers.

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]]> KURO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/kuro-review/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:53:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27465

A skillfully deconstructed narrative, Kuro separates words from images and engages the viewer’s mind to populate the void in between.

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]]> The Vertigo Effect at BAM: A Review https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-vertigo-effect-at-bam-a-review/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:05:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24404 (The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) puts together some of the most intriguing and fun cinematic retrospectives in the world and this month’s “The Vertigo Effect” is no different. Featuring films that realte to Hitchcock’s brilliant themes of memory, obsession […]

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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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