Lebanon Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lebanon/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:57:00 +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 Lebanon Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lebanon/ 32 32 SIRENS Trailer: Electrifying Doc on All-Female Lebanese Rock Band https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/sirens/ Thu, 08 Sep 2022 18:08:15 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37879

Are y’all ready to rock? Oscilloscope Laboratories has just released the trailer for Rita Baghdadi’s electrifying rock documentary, Sirens. The Sundance-selected doc tells the story of Lebanon’s first all-female heavy metal band, Slave of Sirens. Executive produced by Natasha Lyonne […]

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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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]]> Jim Brunzell’s 2018 Sundance Film Festival Preview https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/brunzell-2018-sundance-preview/ Thu, 18 Jan 2018 00:08:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28883 The projectors are warming up, the curtains are about to be raised and the first images will soon be hitting the screen on the 2018 Sundance Film Festival (hosted by the Sundance Institute), starting Thursday, January 18 and running through […]

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]]> SOUFRA https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/soufra-review/ Tue, 19 Dec 2017 20:12:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28803

Stuck in a one-square kilometer ghetto – also called a "refugee camp" – 50,000 Palestinians live in the heart of Beirut, Lebanon, unable to do much of anything beyond scrape by.

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]]> SLEEPLESS NIGHTS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sleepless-nights-film-review/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 16:18:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19966

A movie of uncommon complexity, Sleepless Nights is a harrowing exploration of the slow, ambiguous march of history and memory.

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2009/5/5 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-200955/ Tue, 05 May 2009 20:02:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=156 Today is one of those ultra-special Tuesdays when it comes to new DVD releases. Break out your wallets and add these titles to your collection: Momma’s Man (Kino International) — Azazel Jacobs’ Momma’s Man was not just one of 2008’s […]

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