City of God Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/city-of-god/ What to Watch Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:40:33 +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 of God Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/city-of-god/ 32 32 OMEN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/omen/ Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:40:33 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50655

(New Directors/New Films runs from April 3 – 14 at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art and Film at Lincoln Center. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s review of Omen. It opens in select theaters Friday, April 12 from Utopia.) Belgian-Congolese […]

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]]> A Conversation with Alexandre Moratto (7 PRISONERS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/alexandre-moratto/ Tue, 26 Oct 2021 18:42:53 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35730

I recently watched 7 Prisoners (which I also reviewed), slated for a November 11 release on Netflix, at the 2021 Middleburg Film Festival, where I also had a chance to interview its director, Alexandre Moratto (Socrates). Raised both in the […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART NINE: BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (2012) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/on-the-fringe-9/ Wed, 02 May 2018 16:52:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29533 Beasts of the Southern Wild is a film about the end of the world. Or, more to the point, the end of the universe. More remarkably still, it is also a celebration. A celebration of survival, of freedom and – why not? […]

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]]> A Conversation With Ricardo Martensen and Felipe Tomazelli (CINE SÃO PAOLO) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/cine-sao-paolo-interview/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 21:27:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28317 I met with Brazilian documentary filmmakers Ricardo Martensen and Felipe Tomazelli, on Saturday, June 17, 2017, after the international premiere, at AFI DOCS 2017, of their feature debut, Cine São Paolo (which I also reviewed). The film profiles the attempts […]

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]]> CINE SÃO PAOLO https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cine-sao-paolo-review/ Thu, 29 Jun 2017 17:42:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28313

It's a wonderful meditation on history, movies, the history of movies, and the joys of sharing one's love of movies with others.

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