La Jetée Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/la-jetee/ What to Watch Tue, 23 Dec 2025 18:37:10 +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 La Jetée Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/la-jetee/ 32 32 LA JETÉE THE FIFTH SHOT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fifth-shot-of-la-jetee/ Thu, 13 Mar 2025 18:00:36 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52784

(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-8/ Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29496 There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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]]> KURO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/kuro-review/ Mon, 23 Jan 2017 20:53:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27465

A skillfully deconstructed narrative, Kuro separates words from images and engages the viewer’s mind to populate the void in between.

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]]> DIVERGE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/diverge-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/diverge-review/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2016 18:19:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26996

What to do if you have sweeping cinematic ideas and little money?

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/diverge-review/feed/ 1 The Vertigo Effect at BAM: A Review https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-vertigo-effect-at-bam-a-review/ Fri, 17 Apr 2015 19:05:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24404 (The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) puts together some of the most intriguing and fun cinematic retrospectives in the world and this month’s “The Vertigo Effect” is no different. Featuring films that realte to Hitchcock’s brilliant themes of memory, obsession […]

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]]> Los Angeles Film Festival 2012 — Shorts Sampler https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/los-angeles-film-festival-2012-short-film-sampler/ Fri, 15 Jun 2012 04:57:34 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17578 [Full disclosure: Paul Sbrizzi is an Associate Programmer at the LAFilmFest.] Here is a small sampler of work that will be screening in shorts blocks and in front of features at the 2012 LAFilmFest: Humor and science fiction don’t usually […]

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