Les Blank Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/les-blank/ What to Watch Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:51:06 +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 Les Blank Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/les-blank/ 32 32 BURDEN OF DREAMS Restoration Trailer: Les Blank’s BTS Look of Werner Herzog’s ‘Fitzcarraldo’ Gets the 4K Treatment https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/burden-of-dreams-restoration/ Thu, 20 Jun 2024 19:51:06 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51072 Werner Herzog in Les Blank's BURDEN OF DREAMS

If you thought Heart of Darkness gave you a hard enough look into the challenges of making a masterpiece of cinema in the jungle, try experiencing the frenzied making of Werner Herzog’s 1982 epic Fitzcarraldo. Iconic documentary filmmaker Les Blank’s […]

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]]> SPEER GOES TO HOLLYWOOD https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/speer-goes-to-hollywood/ Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:14:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35797

(Vanessa Lapa’s latest documentary Speer Goes to Hollywood is in select theaters now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Vanessa Lapa, famed Israeli journalist and documentarian, […]

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]]> A Conversation With Bill Ross (CONTEMPORARY COLOR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bill-ross/ Tue, 19 Apr 2016 19:35:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26187 (The 2016 Tribeca Film Festival kicked off April 13 and runs through April 24. Hammer to Nail is representing so keep an eye on the site for frequent reviews, interviews and other excitement!) With the premiere of the David Byrne-helmed […]

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]]> SXSW ’15: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sxsw-film-festival-15-michael-tully-wrap-up/ Wed, 25 Mar 2015 15:17:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24209 Including two titles I’d seen before the 2015 SXSW Film Festival kicked off (read my reviews of Western and Entertainment if you haven’t already), I managed to catch 22 features this year. Which is to say, not a pathetic number […]

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]]> Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival is Just Around the Corner https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sebastopol-documentary-film-festival-is-just-around-the-corner/ Thu, 12 Mar 2015 21:51:43 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24120 As a resident of the Northern California Bay Area, I’m always on the lookout for local film festivals that are interesting and fun to attend. About 5 years ago, the Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival started coming up more and more […]

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]]> Werner Herzog Book Reading in NYC!!! https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/werner-herzog-book-reading-in-nyc/ Thu, 25 Jun 2009 19:22:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=970 Lordy, lordy, lordy. Tomorrow evening (Friday, June 26th, 7pm) at the McNally Jackson bookstore in SoHo, the one-and-only Werner Herzog will be reading from his new book Conquest of the Useless, which completes the triptych that began with Fitzcarraldo and […]

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