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A Conversation with Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP)

Jonathan Marlow — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:59:32 +0000

Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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IL GRIDO Restoration Trailer: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Underseen Masterpiece Gets the 4K Treatment

M.J. O'Toole — Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:27:06 +0000

Before breaking the mold of cinema with his sensations L’avventura and Blow-Out, Michelangelo Antonioni examined a rootless life in his 1957 neorealist drama, Il Grido. Restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and Compass Film, it follows mechanic Aldo […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978)

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000

Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974)

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000

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)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000

(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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I, DANIEL BLAKE

Christopher Reed — Fri, 23 Dec 2016 19:00:44 +0000

Still, as an exposé of the systematic degradation of the human spirit, it is a powerful condemnation of the perils of a capitalism that jettisons the weak. Take heed, for we are all potential Daniel Blakes.

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GIMME THE LOOT

Michael Tully — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:00:19 +0000

Never sacrificing one for the other, Gimme The Loot somehow manages to be both raw and sweet at the same time.

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A Conversation with Richard Peña

Nelson Kim — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000

This year, the New York Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary, and its 25th with Richard Peña at the helm. Hired in 1988 to replace Richard Roud, the NYFF’s founding director, Peña has served as both the festival’s Selection Committee […]

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ROBERTO ROSSELLINI’S WAR TRILOGY

Nelson Kim — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:04:35 +0000

(Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is available from Amazon.) The challenge is to see things with a fresh eye. When a film has been called a “classic” for too long, it comes to us cloaked in a fog of received opinion, […]

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ROSSELLINI’S HISTORY FILMS

Cullen Gallagher — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 13:07:05 +0000

It’s hard to think of a more universally influential film than Roberto Rossellini’s Open City (1945). Just as legendary as its story of Rome’s anti-Nazi resistance is the real life circumstances of its production. With the studios bombed, Rossellini takes […]

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