Jeanne Dielman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/jeanne-dielman/ What to Watch Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:04:50 +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 Jeanne Dielman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/jeanne-dielman/ 32 32 A Conversation with Isa Willinger (NO MERCY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/isa-willinger/ Sun, 23 Nov 2025 18:04:50 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54498

“Do women make harsher films?” This is the question driving filmmaker Isa Willinger’s latest documentary, No Mercy. The film is an electrifying cinematic essay investigating women’s roles on and behind the camera. Willinger brings in the testimonies of some of […]

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]]> VORTEX https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/vortex/ Wed, 29 Sep 2021 21:00:13 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35553

(The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. Here, M.J. O’Toole gives a film review of Gaspar Noé’s Vortex. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per […]

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]]> A Conversation with Wayne Wang (COMING HOME AGAIN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/wayne-wang/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/wayne-wang/#comments Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:53:07 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31687 I met with director Wayne Wang (Last Holiday) on Sunday, September 8, 2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival, to discuss his new film, Coming Home Again (which I also reviewed). It’s an adaptation of Chang-rae Lee’s 1995 New Yorker […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/wayne-wang/feed/ 1 ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-8/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29496 There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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]]> Nelson Kim and John Magary’s 2016 New York Film Festival Wrap-Up (Part 1 of 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/#comments Wed, 26 Oct 2016 17:31:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27126 (The 54th New York Film Festival, with its carefully curated selection of standout new works of international cinema, has come and gone. Longtime HTN contributors, film-school buddies, and fellow struggling NYC indie filmmakers Nelson Kim and John Magary conducted an […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2016-new-york-film-festival-wrap-up-part-1-of-2/feed/ 2 JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/jeanne-dielman-23-quai-du-commerce-1080-bruxelles-film-review/ Mon, 04 Apr 2016 06:59:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1896

(To commemorate the death of the great Chantal Akerman, and in celebration of Film Forum’s revival of her youthful masterpiece Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, we’re reposting Nelson Kim’s review originally written for the movie’s run at Film […]

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]]> NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2013 — HTN PICKS! https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/new-directors-new-films-2013-htn-picks/ Wed, 20 Mar 2013 16:11:34 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20058 Another edition of New Directors/New Films has arrived, you lucky New York Cityers, which means the time has come once again to lace up your comfiest walking shoes and jet back-and-forth between MoMA and the Film Society of Lincoln Center […]

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]]> LONG DAYS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/long-days-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/long-days-film-review/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18218

Long Days is the type of viewing experience that seeps into your bloodstream and lingers.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/long-days-film-review/feed/ 2 SHORT FILM CONTEST WINNER/RUNNER-UP: AUGUST 2012 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/htn-short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-august-2012/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/htn-short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-august-2012/#comments Thu, 16 Aug 2012 18:19:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18212 ***FIRST OFF, AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE: WE ARE TAKING A BREAK FROM OUR SHORT FILM CONTEST FOR SEPTEMBER THROUGH NOVEMBER FOR FILMMAKING REASONS OF OUR OWN HERE AT HTN, BUT WE WILL BE BACK FOR A YEAR-END BLOWOUT IN DECEMBER. EXPECT […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/htn-short-film-contest-winner-runner-up-august-2012/feed/ 1 SLAMDANCE 2012: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/slamdance-2012-a-roundtable-discussion/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/slamdance-2012-a-roundtable-discussion/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:38:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14959 On Day Six of Slamdance 2012, I got together with the creators of three of the festival’s most interesting and challenging films: Frank Rinaldi (writer/director) and Scott Laidlaw (editor) from Sundowning; Daniel Martinico (director/co-writer) and Hugo Armstrong (actor/co-writer) from OK, […]

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