Killer of Sheep Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/killer-of-sheep/ What to Watch Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:07:45 +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 Killer of Sheep Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/killer-of-sheep/ 32 32 MY BROTHER’S WEDDING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/my-brothers-wedding/ Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:07:45 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=55102

(Check out Brandon Wilson’s My Brother’s Wedding movie review. Charles Burnett’s second film has recieved the 4k treatment that was premiered this week at the Berlin International Film Festival. It wil hit American cinemas soon. Seen it? Join the conversation with […]

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]]> A Conversation with Charles Burnett (KILLER OF SHEEP) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/charles-burnett/ Mon, 28 Apr 2025 19:59:32 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53083

Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART TEN: TANGERINE (2015) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-10/ Wed, 23 May 2018 17:26:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29660 “There is a class of people in this world who have fallen into the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, and who are deprived not only of all social consideration but also, in everybody’s opinion, of the specific human […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART SEVEN: SHOTGUN STORIES (2007) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-7/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:05:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29448 Jeff Nichols’ award-winning directorial debut Shotgun Stories is a flawless film. This quality is a crucial distinction to make in discussing a film as part of my continuing “On theFringe” series, as this factor sets the movie apart from its (predecessor) compatriot pictures […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-4/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29303 Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (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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]]> Times Change Inside BAMCinematek’s 1980s Time Capsule https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/times-change-inside-bamcinemateks-1980s-time-capsule/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:49:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24913 (BamCinematek has really been bringing some amazing retrospectives to Brooklyn of late. From their John Carpener retrospective to their look at cinematic memory with “The Vertigo Effect” those of us who don’t live on the east coast are getting mighty jealous of those […]

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]]> A Conversation With Alexander Olch (THE WINDMILL MOVIE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alexander-olch-the-windmill-movie/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alexander-olch-the-windmill-movie/#comments Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:55:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=272 [NOTE: This conversation was first posted in June 2009 when The Windmill Movie was released theatrically at the Film Forum in New York City.] Alexander Olch always wanted to be a narrative filmmaker. He maintained this focus at Harvard, an […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alexander-olch-the-windmill-movie/feed/ 1 NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #5 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-5/ Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1500 Apologies for missing December but we had our hands full with both our Top 25 of the Decade post and our 2009 Hammer to Nail Awards. And though not everyone could make the deadline this month, there are more than […]

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