L'Avventura Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lavventura/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 18:28:33 +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 L'Avventura Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lavventura/ 32 32 FYNBOS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fynbos-film-review/ Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:00:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19610

Named after the characteristic bush that grows in this land, Fynbos goes deep into its subjects’ psyches as they play for huge personal stakes, flirting with self-destruction over ownership of a piece of land that in a sense can’t be owned.

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]]> A Conversation with Richard Peña https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-richard-pena/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18616 This year, the New York Film Festival celebrates its 50th anniversary, and its 25th with Richard Peña at the helm. Hired in 1988 to replace Richard Roud, the NYFF’s founding director, Peña has served as both the festival’s Selection Committee […]

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]]> A Conversation With Calvin Lee Reeder (THE OREGONIAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-calvin-lee-reeder-the-oregonian/ Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:11:41 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17444 Calvin Lee Reeder’s The Oregonian is a horrifying film, if not what is commonly perceived as a “horror” film. It is deeply and fundamentally upsetting in an off-putting way that will sicken and alarm you if your idea of pure […]

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]]> ROBERTO ROSSELLINI’S WAR TRILOGY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-film-review/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:04:35 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2238

(Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is available from Amazon.) The challenge is to see things with a fresh eye. When a film has been called a “classic” for too long, it comes to us cloaked in a fog of received opinion, […]

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]]> Brandon’s 2009 Tribeca Film Festival Recap https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/brandons-2009-tribeca-film-festival-recap/ Tue, 05 May 2009 07:51:04 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1644 In the case of the Tribeca Film Festival, less is most certainly more. Slimmed down considerably from its mid-decade girth, it’s a much easier to navigate experience than in the days when it might take three subway connections or an […]

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]]> CHAN IS MISSING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/chan-is-missing-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/chan-is-missing-film-review/#comments Thu, 10 Jul 2008 12:02:29 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2100

(Buy Chan is Missing at Amazon, and visit the official website of the Asian American International Film Festival for screening details.) By the time he made Chan is Missing, Hong Kong native Wayne Wang had graduated from the California College […]

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