Cinema Village Archives - Hammer to Nail

THE BECOMERS Trailer: Aliens Navigate Life on Earth in Zach Clark’s Sci-Fi Genre-Bender

M.J. O'Toole — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 16:17:36 +0000

Hammer to Nail loves us some Zach Clark weirdness! The writer-director, known for Little Sister and White Reindeer, returns with a new visually striking spin on Invasion of the Body Snatchers. The Becomers follows two body-snatching aliens, arriving separately on […]

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SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY

Fri, 22 Aug 2014 14:19:25 +0000

Drew Tobia’s See You Next Tuesday is equal parts emotionally exhausting and emotionally honest, with a finely tuned ear for realistic family dysfunction.

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A Conversation With Drew Tobia (SEE YOU NEXT TUESDAY)

Wed, 20 Aug 2014 16:01:01 +0000

I met Drew Tobia at the 2009 Boston Underground Film Festival, after a screening of my movie Modern Love is Automatic (read Lena Dunham’s HTN review right here). He handed me a DVD with a bunch of shorts he had made […]

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A Conversation with Richard Peña

Nelson Kim — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000

This year, the New York Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary, and its 25th with Richard Peña at the helm. Hired in 1988 to replace Richard Roud, the NYFF’s founding director, Peña has served as both the festival’s Selection Committee […]

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SLEEP FURIOUSLY

Michael Tully — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 14:30:16 +0000

By refusing to make any grand, preachy statements, Koppel has achieved something far more commendable and deceptively complex—he’s preserved the pulse, spirit, and soul of this place and its people.

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DARK DAYS

Brandon Harris — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:32:38 +0000

Dark Days has an aesthetic vibe to it that has largely disappeared from documentaries as digital production has become ubiquitous due to the high shooting ratios involved in the genre.

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A Conversation With Ry Russo-Young (YOU WON’T MISS ME)

Michael Tully — Wed, 25 May 2011 14:00:15 +0000

[NOTE: Now that You Won’t Miss Me is available in an excellent Limited Edition DVD/Vinyl package thanks to Factory 25, we wanted to make sure you read this conversation if you haven’t already!] As you can tell from the opening […]

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GUY AND MADELINE ON A PARK BENCH

Brandon Harris — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:54:49 +0000

Sneakily ambitious, nearly without narrative, unable to contain its joie de vivre, old school/aware of its influences and yet unlike anything you've ever seen before, this is the type of picture that can give you faith in the creative vision of privileged twenty-somethings yet again.

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HARLEM ARIA

Michael Tully — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:58:21 +0000

(I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Magnolia Pictures is releasing Harlem Aria in New York City at Cinema Village on Friday, March 5, 2010. Visit the film’s official page at the Magnolia website for more information… though certainly not […]

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PRODIGAL SONS

Michael Tully — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:05:24 +0000

(Prodigal Sons is now playing at Cinema Village. It expands to more cities on March 5, 2010. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) I’m not going to write a traditional review of Kimberly Reed’s Prodigal Sons, for fear […]

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