Francois Truffaut Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/francois-truffaut/ What to Watch Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +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 Francois Truffaut Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/francois-truffaut/ 32 32 A Conversation with Richard Linklater (NOUVELLE VAGUE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/linklater-nouvelle-vague/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54439

Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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]]> NOUVELLE VAGUE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/nouvelle-vague/ Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:45:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54291

(The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his Nouvelle Vague movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Franco-Swiss filmmaker […]

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]]> CHICKEN FOR LINDA! https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/chicken-for-linda/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:31:11 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50661

(Check out Chris Reed’s Chicken for Linda! movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Despite the many comic shenanigans on display, the recurring subtext of the animated French film Chicken for Linda! (or “Linda veut du poulet” in the […]

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]]> EARLY SHORT FILMS OF THE FRENCH NEW WAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/early-short-films-of-the-french-new-wave/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:42:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40454

With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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]]> A Conversation with Ira Sachs (PASSAGES) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/ira-sachs/ Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:37:51 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40205

Ira Sachs was born in Memphis Tennessee and is based in New York City. The 57 year old has been making films since 1997 with his Sundance hit The Delta. Since then, Ira has been a staple in the international film festival […]

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]]> THE NOVICE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:50:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35966

(LBGTQ+ writer/director Lauren Hadaway’s film The Novice is nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and his theaters and on-demand Friday, December 17 via IFC Films. Here is Chris Reed’s movie review of The Novice. Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/feed/ 1 RAY LOBO AND JONATHAN MARLOW TACKLE BREATHLESS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/lobo-marlow-breathless/ Fri, 24 Sep 2021 16:03:32 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35512

Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (which has a fantastic 4k restoration, plays September 24-October 7 at NYC’s Film Forum) has been analyzed by critics, directors, writers, academics, and cinephiles across the world. Hammer to Nail contributors Jonathan Marlow and Ray Lobo share […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE LODGER https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/lodger-criterion/ Tue, 16 Jan 2018 18:06:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28875

In this Criterion collection, we get two movies for the price of one: famed director Alfred Hitchcock's acclaimed third feature The Lodger and its lesser-known cousin of later that same year of 1927, Downhill (released in the U.S. as When Boys Leave Home.

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