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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: GUILLERMO DEL TORO’S PINOCCHIO

Brad Cook — Wed, 10 Jan 2024 19:22:00 +0000

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook seeks to become a […]

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A Conversation with Wim Wenders (ANSELM & PERFECT DAYS)

Jack Schenker — Fri, 15 Dec 2023 18:40:02 +0000

Wim Wenders, hailing from Germany, is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He has been making films for over 50 years and wrote and directed his first feature in 1971 called Summer in the City. In 1976, Wenders […]

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PREY

Christopher Reed — Thu, 04 Aug 2022 19:33:19 +0000

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Prey, exclusively on Hulu starting Friday, August 5. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A franchise that saw quasi-respectable, if not phenomenal, success on its last outing returns with something […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART FIVE: PERMANENT VACATION (1980)

Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:33:59 +0000

One of the many hurdles over which I’ve needed to continuously hop in my “On the Fringe” series is the urgency to come up with synonyms and, ultimately, euphemisms for the descriptor “deceptively simple” in the proper encapsulation of films […]

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RAY HARRYHAUSEN: SPECIAL EFFECTS TITAN

Wed, 27 Jul 2016 16:31:19 +0000

Ray Harryhausen: Special Effects Titan is a labor of love that took 10 years to make. It was released in 2011, just two years before its subject passed away, so it's fortunate that the filmmakers were able to create a complete chronicle of his life and talk to so many influential people before he was gone.

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THE RUMBLE IN THE RUBBLE: A REPORT FROM SFIFF 2011 – PART 1

The Editorial Staff — Tue, 10 May 2011 18:13:53 +0000

CAVEAT EMPTOR So scribbles Leonard Cohen on the tile above his bathtub in the 1965 documentary Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen, a Canadian National Film Board production which won a Genie Award in the “TV Information” category (this is […]

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A Conversation With Hal Hartley

Brandon Harris — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:06:33 +0000

Still playful after all these years, catching up with The Unbelievable Truth last week was something of a difficulty, certainly more so than catching up with its director, Hal Hartley. While I didn’t have to trek all the way up […]

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BURN HOLLYWOOD BURN: AVATAR

Michael Tully — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 20:29:41 +0000

(Avatar is distributed by 20th Century Fox. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Let’s get this out of the way from the start. For those of you who are convinced I had written off James Cameron’s Avatar before […]

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