John Hawkes Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-hawkes/ What to Watch Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:00:58 +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 John Hawkes Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-hawkes/ 32 32 ROVING WOMAN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/roving-woman/ Thu, 23 Jun 2022 20:00:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37369

(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review for Roving Woman. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Though Roving Woman eventually turns into a gently meditative road trip into the […]

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]]> UNLOVABLE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/unlovable/ Mon, 26 Mar 2018 20:52:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29275

At first glance, Unlovable seems like it should be a rom-com, but everything about it functions [quite thankfully!] in stark opposition to the genre.

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]]> SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2014-michael-tully-wrap-up/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22675 As a director who presented a new feature at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I have found all of the press coming out of Park City lamenting the “meager deals” and somehow linking that to the “lackluster quality” of the […]

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]]> LOW DOWN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/low-down-film-review/ Wed, 29 Jan 2014 22:16:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22647

Based on a memoir by Amy Jo Albany, Low Down is firmly set in the space of functional addiction; it neither glorifies the act nor demonizes it, while at the same time dramatizing the price it takes on a father and daughter relationship.

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]]> MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/martha-marcy-may-marlene-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/martha-marcy-may-marlene-film-review/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:30:04 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=13508

What emerges out of this relatively brief, intoxicating milieu is less a portrait and more a brief snapshot of a girl who will never be able to stop looking over her shoulder.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/martha-marcy-may-marlene-film-review/feed/ 4 A Conversation With Sean Durkin (MARTHA MARCY MAY MARLENE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-sean-durkin/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-sean-durkin/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 14:30:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=13411 Hammer to Nail contributor John Magary had this to say about Sean Durkin’s debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene in conjunction with its recent screenings at the 2011 New York Film Festival: A throbbing flip-flopper of a movie, weaving an […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-sean-durkin/feed/ 5 WINTER’S BONE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/winters-bone-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/winters-bone-film-review/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 20:00:35 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5009

(Winter’s Bone won the Dramatic Grand Jury Prize and Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. It is being distributed by Roadside Attractions and is now available on DVD or Blu-ray. It opened in New York City […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/winters-bone-film-review/feed/ 2 MIKE S. RYAN AT SUNDANCE ‘10: DAY TWO https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/mike-s-ryan-at-sundance-%e2%80%9810-day-two/ Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:21:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1686 I saw six films Saturday the 23rd. Actually I walked out on Boy since I don t like films that rely on cute kids and/or cute animals. Boy is directed with punchy quirky energy by Taika Waititi, who made Eagle […]

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