John Lithgow Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-lithgow/ What to Watch Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:28:27 +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 Lithgow Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-lithgow/ 32 32 A Conversation with Edward Berger (CONCLAVE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/edward-berger/ Fri, 25 Oct 2024 19:28:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51940

The new movie Conclave, from German director Edward Berger (All Quiet on the Western Front), tells the surprisingly gripping tale of what happens during a papal conclave three weeks after a pontiff’s death. Adapted from Robert Harris’ eponymous novel and […]

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]]> CONCLAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/conclave/ Fri, 18 Oct 2024 17:59:32 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51873

(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s Conclave movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Every time a Pope dies, Catholics around the world no doubt find themselves both mourning the loss […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BLOW OUT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/blow-out-criterion/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:01:37 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37977

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

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]]> Jessica Baxter’s Seattle International Film Fest ’17 Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/baxter-2017-siff-wrap/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/baxter-2017-siff-wrap/#comments Fri, 14 Jul 2017 20:55:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28384 The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival, which runs for 25 days every spring in the Emerald City, is four weeks of wall-to-wall, butt-numbing entertainment. This year’s festival took place May 18th to June 11th and featured 400 films from 80 […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/baxter-2017-siff-wrap/feed/ 2 BEATRIZ AT DINNER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beatriz-at-dinner-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beatriz-at-dinner-review/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:55:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28306

(The 43rd Annual Seattle International Film Festival started May 18 and ran almost a month, all the way until June 11. Stay tuned to Hammer to Nail for reviews throughout the festivals monster run.) Donald Trump isn’t the first appalling billionaire, and […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beatriz-at-dinner-review/feed/ 1 TRIBECA FILM FESTIVAL ’14: LANCE EDMANDS’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/tribeca-film-festival-14-lance-edmands-wrap-up/ Tue, 29 Apr 2014 15:19:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23238 The Tribeca Film Festival has traditionally occupied a somewhat contested space in the cinematic landscape. It seems like no critical coverage is complete without some kind of hand-wringing commentary on Tribeca’s relationship with the film festival circuit, downtown Manhattan, or […]

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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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