City Lights Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/city-lights/ What to Watch Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +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 City Lights Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/city-lights/ 32 32 SOUND FOR SILENTS; THE SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL 2025 https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sfsff-2035/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54421

Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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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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]]> 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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]]> BULLIES ON SCREEN https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bullies-on-screen/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bullies-on-screen/#comments Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:55:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=21982 The bully in movies has been around for nearly as long as the medium itself. At the end of Chaplin’s City Lights, the Tramp is broke, alone, on the street. At his lowest point, he feels the sticky pang of […]

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