Desiree Akhavan Archives - Hammer to Nail

Jim Brunzell’s Sundance 2018 Wrap-Up…Part One

Thu, 08 Feb 2018 23:55:38 +0000

Having completed the Herculean effort of witnessing, withstanding and the emotional whiplash of watching 39 films, unfold over the course of ten days, the 2018 Sundance Film Festival officially wrapped on Sunday, January 28 with its award ceremony giving away…38 […]

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Jim Brunzell’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Preview

A.D. Calvo — Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:08:45 +0000

The projectors are warming up, the curtains are about to be raised and the first images will soon be hitting the screen on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (hosted by the Sundance Institute), starting Thursday, January 18 and running through […]

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CREEP 2

Christopher Reed — Mon, 04 Dec 2017 18:38:54 +0000

I wrote about the director last year, celebrating his simple, yet effective mise-en-scène in both Creep and The Overnight, and I continue to be impressed with how much he accomplishes with so very little. Creeper? He's a keeper!

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THE 2015 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS

Michael Tully — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:43:32 +0000

Introduction Greetings HtN readers, this is Don Lewis, Editor of the site and I wanted to welcome you to the 2015 Hammer to Nail Awards. Next month marks my official one-year anniversary of Editor of the site and it’s been […]

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APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR

Donna K. — Fri, 16 Jan 2015 15:02:43 +0000

Desiree Akhavan’s debut feature Appropriate Behavior is a journey of sweetly sad self-discovery. Akhavan sees the difficulty in trying to establish oneself in a world of splintering identities, impassioned subcultures, ethnic expectations, defined gender roles.

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SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP

Michael Tully — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000

As a director who presented a new feature at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I have found all of the press coming out of Park City lamenting the “meager deals” and somehow linking that to the “lackluster quality” of the […]

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