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		<title>A Conversation with Alex Mallis &#038; Travis Wood (THE TRAVEL COMPANION)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Chris Shields]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 17:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>We’ve all seen a bad Q and A after a film screening. They’re awkward, often they overstay their welcome, and inevitably someone has to ask, “what camera did you use?” If you go to a lot of film screenings they [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/mallis-wood/">A Conversation with Alex Mallis &#038; Travis Wood (THE TRAVEL COMPANION)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com">Hammer to Nail</a>.</p>
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		<title>A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin (SPECTATEURS!)</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rory O'Connor]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:07:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[A Christmas Tale]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Age of Innocence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Armageddon Time]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Arnaud Desplechin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beastiari Herbari Lepadari]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belfast]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Broken Arrow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charles Gillibert]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Charlotte Rampling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cheyenne Autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinema appreciation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Claude Lanzmann]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[François Civil]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Godard]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kamen Velkovsky]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Lars von Trier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mathieu Amalric]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Melancholia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pier Paulo Pasolini]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sam Mendes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spectateurs!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stanley Cavell]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[storytelling]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[TÁR]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The 400 Blows]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theroux]]></category>
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<p>“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/arnaud-desplechin/">A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin (SPECTATEURS!)</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com">Hammer to Nail</a>.</p>
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		<title>2021 Film Festival Alliance, Day Two: Dr. Larry Brilliant, Contagion &#038; Covid-proofing Theaters</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Melanie Addington]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2021 16:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[FILM FESTIVALS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[On the Festival Circuit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[#FilmEx21]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belcourt Theatre]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Contagion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Covid movie theater]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dr. Larry Brilliant]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mark Fishkin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portable HEPA filters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[queer cinema programming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steven Soderbergh]]></category>
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<p>(The annual Film Festival Alliance gathering usually takes place in Midway, Ut. pre-Sundance. However, this year’s edition is all virtual and Melanie Addington, HtN contributor/Executive Director of the Oxford Film Festival is in attendance. She brings us this report…) Kicking off day two of [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2021-film-festival-alliance-day-2/">2021 Film Festival Alliance, Day Two: Dr. Larry Brilliant, Contagion &#038; Covid-proofing Theaters</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com">Hammer to Nail</a>.</p>
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		<title>Festival Wrap: Oxford Film Festival, 2015</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don R. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Mar 2015 23:26:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[EDITORIAL]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film Festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SHORT FILM CONTEST]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[SLIDESHOW]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[documentary film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[film festivals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hugh Hefner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative features]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[narrative shorts. documentary]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[southern hospitality]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>Sunday, March 1 marked the end of the 12th Annual Oxford Film Festival which is held each year in Oxford, MS. I’ve had the good fortune to have attended the festival as a filmmaker, juror and panel moderator for the [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/festival-wrap-oxford-film-festival-2015/">Festival Wrap: Oxford Film Festival, 2015</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com">Hammer to Nail</a>.</p>
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		<title>KEYS TO THE CASTLE</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Don R. Lewis]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2015 05:10:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[American Cinema]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don R. Lewis]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[<p>I’m sitting in my hotel room in Oxford, MS where I’m a juror for the 12th Annual Oxford Film Festival. My trip here marks my fourth one and also, my first as the new editor here at Hammer to Nail. [&#8230;]</p>
<p>The post <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/keys-to-the-castle/">KEYS TO THE CASTLE</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.hammertonail.com">Hammer to Nail</a>.</p>
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