John Sayles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-sayles/ What to Watch Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:19:53 +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 Sayles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/john-sayles/ 32 32 A Conversation with John Sayles (LONE STAR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:50:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=49844

John Sayles is one of the great American filmmakers. Graduating from Williams college in 1972, Sayles moved to east Boston to work a factory job. During that time he wrote short stories, submitting them to various magazines. These short stories […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/feed/ 1 BEESWAX https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/beeswax-film-review/ Fri, 10 Jan 2014 11:00:34 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2940

If Andrew Bujalski’s first two films were focused on characters staring into the precipice of adulthood (a metaphor that Garden State made all too literal), then the denizens of Beeswax are inside the sinkhole staring back.

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]]> GREAT DIRECTORS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/great-directors-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/great-directors-film-review/#comments Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:13:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5376

(Great Directors was picked up for distribution by Paladin Films. It opens at the Quad Cinema in New York City on July 2, 2010, followed by Los Angeles on July 9, 2010.) For a movie called Great Directors, first-time director […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/great-directors-film-review/feed/ 2 A Conversation With Pablo Aravena (NEXT: A PRIMER ON URBAN PAINTING) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-pablo-aravena-next-a-primer-on-urban-painting/ Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:46:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5275 (Note: In light of the film’s domestic DVD release, we are posting a re-edited version of an interview HTN contributor Pamela Cohn conducted with filmmaker Pablo Aravena in 2006 and first posted at her blog Still In Motion.) Five years […]

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]]> A Conversation With Scott Teems (THAT EVENING SUN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-scott-teems-that-evening-sun/ Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:00:37 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=144 Based on a short story by celebrated Southern author William Gay, Scott Teems’ feature-length directorial debut, That Evening Sun, is executed with the grace and precision of a veteran. The film stars Hal Holbrook as Abner Meecham, an 80-year-old farmer […]

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]]> TOE TACTIC, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/the-toe-tactic-film-review/ Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:57:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=752

Celebrated short filmmaker Emily Hubley doesn’t view the world through normal eyes. Her debut feature, The Toe Tactic, is a very pleasant reminder of this. By inserting her vibrant animated vision into a much more somber and grounded live-action story, […]

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