Judd Apatow Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/judd-apatow/ What to Watch Tue, 11 Jun 2024 15:11:05 +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 Judd Apatow Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/judd-apatow/ 32 32 A Conversation with Chris Wilcha (FLIPSIDE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/chris-wilcha/ Fri, 31 May 2024 13:45:42 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40503

Filmmaker Chris Wilcha has long struggled with the feeling that his most creative days are behind him, stuck as he is in the world of commercial work-for-hire. But a funny thing happened along the way towards middle-aged professional dissatisfaction: the […]

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]]> FLIPSIDE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/flipside/ Fri, 31 May 2024 13:19:30 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40375

(The 2023 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) runs September 7-17 and HtN has tons of coverage coming your way! Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Flipside. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A creative existence can be […]

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]]> FLIPSIDE Trailer: Documentarian Chris Wilcha Reflects on a Life of Shelved Projects, Records, and Creative Meaning https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/flipside-chris-wilcha/ Thu, 18 Apr 2024 18:30:41 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50693 Chris Wilcha's FLIPSIDE

Filmmaker Chris Wilcha looks back on a life of lost passion projects and memories in his newest documentary Flipside. The film is the product of Wilcha returning to the New Jersey record store where he worked as a teenage clerk […]

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]]> HAMMER TO NAIL’S BEST FILMS OF 2020 https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/best-films-of-2020/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:45:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33881

‘Tis the season for year end “Best Of” lists. Here’s Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s and Lead Critic Chris Reed’s… Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s Top Films of 2020 Though recently A24 has felt more like an e-commerce store than a movie studio due […]

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]]> Jessica Baxter Recaps the 2018 San Francisco International Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2018-sfiff-wrap/ Tue, 08 May 2018 16:09:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29563 Every April, talented filmmakers from around the world coalesce in the City by the Bay for the San Francisco International Film Festival. Now in its 61st year, SFIFF is the longest running film festival in the Americas. SFFILM, a nonprofit […]

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]]> SUNLIGHT JR. https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sunlight-jr-film-review/ Wed, 13 Nov 2013 14:00:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20693

While I appreciated her film's craft, ultimately this was far less important to me than Laurie Collyer’s willingness to frame a question of reproductive rights in such a realistic way.

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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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]]> “In Conversation With Todd Solondz” (w/ David Carr at the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-between-todd-solondz-and-david-carr-2012-sarasota-film-festival/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-between-todd-solondz-and-david-carr-2012-sarasota-film-festival/#comments Fri, 08 Jun 2012 13:20:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=16925 [This “In Conversation With Todd Solondz” took place on Sunday, April 22, 2012, as part of the 2012 Sarasota Film Festival. This goal of this transcription was to preserve everything that was said while containing the necessary clean-up that would […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-between-todd-solondz-and-david-carr-2012-sarasota-film-festival/feed/ 1 NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #4 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-4/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-4/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:07:28 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=76 Has that time of the month come yet again? ‘Tas, by golly. Get to queuein’, cinemisters and cinemisses: ***ISSUE #4: NOVEMBER ‘09*** Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (2006) — Stanley Nelson’s brilliantly executed documentary shows how one […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-4/feed/ 1 I’M THROUGH WITH WHITE GIRLS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/im-through-with-white-girls-film-review/ Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:44:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=676 (I’m Through With White Girls is now out on DVD. Buy it at Amazon.) In my humble experience, when you tell people—especially African-Americans—to see Jennifer Sharp’s I’m Through With White Girls, they just about always giggle or flinch, or both. […]

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