Golden Exits Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/golden-exits/ What to Watch Mon, 20 May 2024 17:32:09 +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 Golden Exits Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/golden-exits/ 32 32 A Conversation with Jessica Oreck (ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/jessica-oreck/ Wed, 27 Jul 2022 22:51:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30944

I met with director Jessica Oreck at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, on Sunday, March 10, to discuss her newest film, the narrative feature One Man Dies a Million Times (which I also reviewed). A haunting dramatization of the Siege […]

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]]> ONE MAN DIES A MILLION TIMES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/one-man-dies-a-million-times/ Thu, 21 Mar 2019 17:57:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30913

Time is malleable, the search for meaning eternal, and infinity born out of specificity. The result? A haunting meditation on the nature of humanity and how to survive our own downfall.

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]]> 2017 Oak Cliff Film Festival Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2017-oak-cliff-film-fest-wrap/ Fri, 30 Jun 2017 17:50:10 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28323 The 2017 Oak Cliff Film Festival ran June 8-11 and I was fortunate enough to attend for the second time as a juror. I truly adore the Oak Cliff Film Festival as well as festival founders Barak Epstein and Jason […]

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]]> BAMcinemafest Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/bamcinemafest-wrap/ Mon, 26 Jun 2017 16:36:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28276 (Landline and Ingrid Goes West both world premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Landline was acquired by Amazon Studios and it opens theatrically on July 21, 2017. Ingrid Goes West was acquired by Neon and it opens theatrically on August 11, 2017.) My critical faculties […]

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]]> A Conversation with Alex Ross Perry (GOLDEN EXITS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/alex-ross-perry-interview/ Fri, 19 May 2017 20:45:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28138 I met with writer/director Alex Ross Perry, on Saturday, May 6, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, to discuss his latest feature, Golden Exits (reviewed here), which premiered at Sundance. A profile of existential angst among a cross-section of Brooklynites […]

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]]> GOLDEN EXITS https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/golden-exits-review/ Wed, 03 May 2017 15:54:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28062

If all of this sounds like it adds up to nothing more than talky misery, fear not, for the languor of the plot masks dynamic (if slight) change within each participant.

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]]> Jim Brunzell’s 2017 Sundance Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/brunzell-2017-sundance-wrap/ Tue, 31 Jan 2017 00:26:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27508 The 2017 Sundance Film Festival was in full swing from the moment upon arriving in Park City, UT, the crowds were slowly clogging up the sidewalks, cars driving from Kearns Blvd to Main Street were bumper to bumper and buses […]

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