Hal Ashby Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/hal-ashby/ What to Watch Tue, 23 Dec 2025 01:30:22 +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 Hal Ashby Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/hal-ashby/ 32 32 BETWEEN THE TEMPLES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/between-the-temples/ Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:29:33 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51497

(Check out Chris Reed’s Between the Temples movie review, in theaters August 23. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A lyrical ode to love in all its mystifying wonder, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples […]

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]]> PERSONAL PROBLEMS (SPLIT SCREEN VERSION) https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/personal-problems/ Fri, 03 Sep 2021 19:21:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35362

(Friday, August 27, Metrograph began presenting Personal Problems: Split-Screen Version, a new restoration deconstructing Bill Gunn’s groundbreaking 1980 film. You can watch it here now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via […]

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]]> A Conversation with Arthur Jones & Giorgio Angelini (FEELS GOOD MAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/feels-good-man-2/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 19:00:02 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33316

I recently spoke by phone with director Arthur Jones and producer Giorgio Angelini (Owned: A Tale of Two Americas) about their collaboration on the new documentary Feels Good Man (which I also reviewed). The film tells the story of cartoonist […]

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]]> A Conversation with Peter Hedges (BEN IS BACK) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/peter-hedges/ Wed, 07 Nov 2018 19:07:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30376

I met with writer/director Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Middleburg Film Festival, to discuss his latest film, Ben Is Back (which I also reviewed). It tells the hard-hitting tale of a young […]

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]]> HAL https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/hal-review/ Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:52:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29903

Though Hal is cinematically straightforward, without any striking innovations of its own, the material it showcases elevates it beyond the pedestrian biopic, making it a wonderful tribute to its subject's free spirit and brilliant talent.

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]]> Jessica Baxter Recaps the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2018-sfiff-wrap/ Tue, 08 May 2018 16:09:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29563 Every April, talented filmmakers from around the world coalesce in the City by the Bay for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Now in its 61st year, SFIFF is the longest running film festival in the Americas. SFFILM, a nonprofit […]

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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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]]> Jim Brunzell’s Sundance 2018 Wrap-Up…Part Two https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/brunzell-sundancewrap-2/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/brunzell-sundancewrap-2/#comments Fri, 09 Feb 2018 23:42:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29032 (The following is part 2 of HtN contributor Jim Brunzell’s wrap up of the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. Part one can be found here.) A slew of films dealt with family dynamics or lack thereof including, Hereditary and Mandy and the first […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/brunzell-sundancewrap-2/feed/ 1 FACES PLACES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/faces-places-review/ Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:47:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28850

Perhaps the greatest joy of this charming documentary, beyond that of seeing the happiness of the movie's subjects, is the vibrant exchange of ideas between Varda and JR, over two generations apart.

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]]> A Conversation with Laura Terruso (FITS AND STARTS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/laura-terruso-interview/ Wed, 15 Mar 2017 19:36:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27689 I met with director Laura Terruso on Saturday, March 11, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss her new film, a gently clever comedy entitled Fits and Starts, which I also reviewed. The movie follows the misadventures of married couple David and […]

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