Ken Burns Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/ken-burns/ What to Watch Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +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 Ken Burns Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/ken-burns/ 32 32 A Conversation with Scott Cummings (REALM OF SATAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/scott-cummings/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53908

“Hey, this isn’t Ken Burns” – Scott Cummings on Realm of Satan The feature-length directorial debut of veteran editor Scott Cummings, Realm of Satan (reviewed here by Chris Reed), is equal parts visually stunning and (no pun intended) wickedly funny. Not to […]

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]]> Telluride Film Festival 2024 Lineup: Slate Includes Sean Baker, Errol Morris, Andrea Arnold, and More https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/telluride-2024-lineup/ Thu, 29 Aug 2024 21:39:13 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51525 2024 Telluride Film Festival Lineup

The always epic (and, slightly esoteric in terms of attending goes…) Telluride Film Festival kicks off this Labor Day Weekend, running from August 30 through September 2. Sadly, HtN won’t be there this year but the lineup is, as always, incredibly […]

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]]> A Conversation with Matthew Ogens (AUDIBLE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/matthew-ogens/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/matthew-ogens/#comments Thu, 01 Jul 2021 17:44:06 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35157

Championship athletes may not be foremost on people’s minds when they think of a school for deaf students, and yet, why not? The children who attend are merely deaf or hearing impaired, in otherwise full control of their young, potentially […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/matthew-ogens/feed/ 1 A Conversation with David Shapiro (UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/david-shapiro/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/david-shapiro/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2021 22:39:16 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34386

“I would try to turn memories into touchstones, a pizza movie into a madeleine”: David Shapiro on Untitled Pizza Movie Veteran doc-maker David Shapiro (Missing People, Keep the River on Your Right, Finishing Heaven) is an Independent Spirit Award winner whose work has […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/david-shapiro/feed/ 4 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BULL DURHAM https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sport/bull-durham-criterion-blu/ Mon, 16 Jul 2018 19:14:57 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29907

The other side of the coin tempers the romanticism, and that’s why I put a movie like Bull Durham above such saccharine fare as Field of Dreams...

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]]> Burnsided: Why I Can’t Watch The Vietnam War https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/burnsided/ Fri, 20 Oct 2017 20:17:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28601 I’m a longtime doc aficionado, and yet I’ve never understood the appeal of Ken Burns. The limelight-loving director – most recently of the encyclopedic PBS series The Vietnam War (alongside his spotlight-sidelined yet frequent co-director Lynn Novick) – has at […]

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]]> HOT DOCS 2013: Is This A New Golden Age? https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/hot-docs-2013-is-this-a-new-golden-age/ Thu, 09 May 2013 16:52:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20797 Maybe there’s a debate going on about whether we are, in fact, in the midst of a “documentary renaissance,” but the answer seemed self-evident at the 20th annual Hot Docs, that sprawling all-nonfiction festival that serves as a deliberately inclusive […]

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]]> AFI FEST 2012 PREVIEW https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/afi-fest-2012-preview-paul-sbrizzi/ Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:26:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18704 The 2012 AFI Fest runs from November 1st-8th. Visit the festival’s official website for more information. It’s AFI Fest time again—this year there will be splashy gala screenings including Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the highly-touted Hitchcock, […]

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