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ON THE FRINGE, PART TWO: THE EXILES (1961)

Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:26:11 +0000

In his seminal 1973 book The Country and the City, Raymond Williams lays out the great divide that he suggests exists between the concepts of “Natur[al]” and “native.” With apologies to Williams, a principle progenitor of “cultural studies” as an academic […]

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ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000

(Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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DVD RELEASES 2009/11/17

Michael Tully — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:22:47 +0000

Well, whaddya know, Thanksgiving’s come early this year, as today brings us the home video release of two of the best new American films of 2009. One is a fiction comedy that plays like a documentary, and the other is […]

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EXILES, THE

Brandon Harris — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 13:40:55 +0000

(Distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures and Milestone Films, The Exiles is now available on DVD. Visit the film’s official website to watch a trailer and learn more.) Down and out on the margins of post-war, downtown Los Angeles, the subjects of […]

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