Corneliu Porumboiu Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/corneliu-porumboiu/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:14:14 +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 Corneliu Porumboiu Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/corneliu-porumboiu/ 32 32 A Conversation with Corneliu Porumboiu (THE WHISTLERS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/corneliu-porumboiu/ Fri, 08 Nov 2019 16:53:57 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31721 I met with Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective) on Friday, September 6, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss The Whistlers (which I also reviewed), his latest film. An engagingly strange, lyrical and melancholy crime thriller, it […]

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A glorious oddity of a metaphysical thriller, Romanian director Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (original title “La Gomera,” after the Canary Island where much of the initial action takes place) whisks us back and forth in time and space to keep us constantly guessing about its characters’ next moves.

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]]> Rotterdam@BAM 2010 – RotterBAM! https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/rotterdambam-2010-rotterbam/ Wed, 03 Mar 2010 20:02:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=160 Based on past, admittedly limited, experience, the idea of the International Film Festival Rotterdam taking its complete Tiger Awards competition on the road is maybe not the best one. That’s because the Tigers only consist of the earliest features (first […]

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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #5 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-5/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1500 Apologies for missing December but we had our hands full with both our Top 25 of the Decade post and our 2009 Hammer to Nail Awards. And though not everyone could make the deadline this month, there are more than […]

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]]> Must-Sees At The 2009 New York Film Festival (Updated!!!) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/must-sees-at-the-47th-new-york-film-festival-updated/ Fri, 25 Sep 2009 16:13:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2496 This past year, some major staff changes have taken place at the Film Society of Lincoln Center (starting with the hiring of Mara Manus as the new Executive Director). What would this mean for the New York Film Festival? Though […]

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