Close Encounters of the Third Kind Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/ What to Watch Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:45:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Close Encounters of the Third Kind Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/close-encounters-of-the-third-kind/ 32 32 A Conversation with Mas Bouzidi (CONCESSIONS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/concessions/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 18:45:19 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=56314

Mas Bouzidi’s Concessions is a love letter to movie theaters wrapped in the melancholy of their disappearance. Shot entirely on 16mm at the Lafayette Theater in upstate New York, the film chronicles the final day at the closing Royal Alamo […]

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]]> Cannes 2012 Dispatch #3: Reality Checks https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-3-reality-checks/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/cannes-2012-dispatch-3-reality-checks/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 15:59:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17224 The main competition at Cannes visibly perked up this morning, thanks to Matteo Garrone’s ironically titled and superbly crafted Reality: a movie about a dreamer gradually losing his grip on the eponymous environment, as he indulges in a fantasy of […]

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