Georges Franju Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/georges-franju/ What to Watch Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +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 Georges Franju Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/georges-franju/ 32 32 SOUND FOR SILENTS; THE SAN FRANCISCO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL 2025 https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/sfsff-2035/ Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:59:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54421

Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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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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