Dallas Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/dallas/ What to Watch Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:15:36 +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 Dallas Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/dallas/ 32 32 That’s a Wrap on the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival! https://www.hammertonail.com/features/ocff26-wrap/ Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:10:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=56175

It was a whirlwind of a film festival. I’m talking about the 2026 Oak Cliff Film Festival that I was super lucky to attend July 30 through August 3. The fest itself ran July 31-August 2 but, I like to […]

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]]> A Conversation with Sherng-Lee Huang and Livia Ungur (HOTEL DALLAS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/hotel-dallas-interview/ Mon, 07 Aug 2017 18:24:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28440 Named in 2016 to Filmmaker magazine’s annual “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” artistic and life partners Sherng-Lee Huang and Livia Ungur are at the forefront of the doc/fiction revolution. As I wrote last summer, their Berlinale-premiering, debut feature Hotel […]

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]]> A Conversation With Livia Ungur & Sherng-Lee Huang (HOTEL DALLAS) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/a-conversation-with-livia-ungur-sherng-lee-huang/ Wed, 01 Jun 2016 23:47:15 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26494 I met with co-directors, and wife and husband, Livia Ungur and Sherng-Lee Huang at the Maryland Film Festival on Sunday, May 8, 2016, to discuss their feature-length movie Hotel Dallas, a hybrid of documentary and fiction filmmaking, about the obsession […]

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]]> HOTEL DALLAS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hotel-dallas-movie-review/ Thu, 26 May 2016 19:53:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26475

If anyone still doubts that Hollywood melodrama skates close to the edge of narrative madness, I offer Hotel Dallas as evidence for the prosecution. No wonder, then, that so many despots love our movies …

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]]> BORSCHT 8 FILM FESTIVAL https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/borscht-8-film-festival/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:32:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19273

If I had to sum up the Borscht Film Festival in one word it would be ‘youth.’ The Borscht Corp collective dates back to high school friendships formed at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from what I […]

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