Close-up Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/close-up/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:30:40 +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 Close-up Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/close-up/ 32 32 CARELESS CRIME https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/careless-crime/ Thu, 24 Feb 2022 20:06:51 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36349

(Filmmaker Shahram Mokri’s 2020 film Careless Crime [Jenayat-e bi deghat] is playing as part of the filmmakers retrospective at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (ie; BAM). Jonathan Marlow has this movie review of Careless Crime [Jenayat-e bi deghat]) History repeats. Catastrophic […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Four https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-2-4/ Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:09:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29943 For those readers who have been following Digital Gods since the beginning, the DIY auteur Zachary Oberzan isn’t a new discovery. I covered his work at length in one of my first articles for this column, choosing him for the […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Three.Five https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-transmission-three-five/ Tue, 01 Nov 2016 15:33:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27175 (Here’s part 2 of Nick Toti’s interview with Zachary Oberzan about his life, his work, and the solemn meditative qualities of popular culture. Much like his movies, Oberzan’s answers range from the uncomfortably candid to the bizarre. Topics covered include: working in […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Three https://www.hammertonail.com/slideshow/digital-gods-transmission-three/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 15:43:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27117 (In this follow-up to the last Digital Gods entry, Nick Toti interviews Zachary Oberzan about his life, his work, and the solemn meditative qualities of popular culture. Much like his movies, Oberzan’s answers range from the uncomfortably candid to the […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Transmission Two https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/digital-gods-transmission-two/ Mon, 10 Oct 2016 16:36:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27069 (Nick Toti analyzes the work of indier-than-you mega-stud Zachary Oberzan. Since the 2010 release of his one-man re-imagining of Rambo: First Blood, Oberzan’s DIY cinematic epics have been vastly under-seen and underappreciated. Click through to read (and then watch!) what […]

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]]> CLOSE-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/close-up-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/close-up-film-review/#comments Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:00:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5159

(Close-up is available on DVD and Blu-ray from The Criterion Collection.) “Close-up is present in some way in every film I make. At the least, my standards for the acting, for the screenplay, for people’s inner conflicts, are measured against […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/close-up-film-review/feed/ 2 DVD RELEASES 2010/6/22 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-june-22-2010/ https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-june-22-2010/#comments Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:01:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5169 Yikes, sorry people, but this is one of those Tuesdays in which I haven’t seen donkey squat when it comes to new—as well as new-old—home video releases. Aside from one trusted pick-of-the-week, compliments of Nelson Kim, you can file all […]

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