Little Miss Sunshine Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/little-miss-sunshine/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:29:42 +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 Little Miss Sunshine Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/little-miss-sunshine/ 32 32 WES SCHLAGENHAUF IS DYING https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/wes-schlagenhauf-is-dying/ Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:27:33 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37275

(The 2022 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 9-26 both online and in-person. Check out M.J. O’Toole’s movie review for Wes Schlagenhauf Is Dying. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The great documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman once said, “Not […]

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]]> HTN’S 15 Most Anticipated Films at the 2021 New York Film Festival https://www.hammertonail.com/features/nyff-21-preview/ Wed, 22 Sep 2021 14:34:41 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35484

The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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]]> Book Review: LIKE BROTHERS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/book-review-like-brothers/ Thu, 17 May 2018 20:25:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29633 I’ve been a fan of The Duplass Brothers (Mark and Jay) since I stumbled across their first well-received short film This is John back at Sundance in 2003. The short was like a lightning bolt to me; inexpensive (which was […]

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]]> Jim Brunzell’s 2017 Sundance Film Festival Wrap-Up, Part 2 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/brunzell-2017-sundance-wrap-2/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 16:12:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27550 Every January hundreds of journalists, critics, distributors, publicists, producers, sales agents, filmmakers, and of course, movie enthusiasts head to the mountains of Park City, UT in hopes of catching a glimpse of a film, or two, or in rare cases […]

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]]> Mike S. Ryan Goes Deep Into the “Dark Night” https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/mike-s-ryan-goes-deep-into-the-dark-night/ Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:20:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25676 Sundance theaters are spread out over a wide valley and they are linked by a bus shuttle service that runs festivalgoers between the various theaters. Often these busses are packed with people who just got out of a theater and […]

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]]> Mike S. Ryan’s Sundance 2016 Wrap-Up https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/mike-s-ryans-sundance-2016-wrap-up/ Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:31:06 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25698 Sundance 2016, the post collapse world has begun with a new set of questions. Sundance 2008 was the last of the “Sundance go- go years.” Hamlet 2 was the top purchase that year for $12 million but there were also […]

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]]> SUNDANCE ’15: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2015-mike-s-ryan-wrap-up/ Mon, 09 Feb 2015 19:35:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23937 Just a quick refresher course, since it’s hard to believe, but it’s actually been some six-plus years since the sky fell and the bottom dropped out of the Indie Bubble. In the fall of 2008, the US financial markets suffered […]

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]]> SUNDANCE ’14: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2014-mike-s-ryan-wrap-up/ Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:02:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22657 I think Eric Kohn got it right in his Indiewire wrap-up: the Sundance Film Festival is so vast that it would be wrong to call this year’s program mediocre just because there wasn’t one breakout hit like Beasts or Fruitvale. […]

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]]> SUNDANCE ‘13: The NEXT Section Comes Into Focus https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/#comments Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:21:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19675 When the NEXT section was launched a few years ago by the powers-that-be at the Sundance Film Festival, it replaced the American Spectrum sidebar that originated during the Gilmore years. It was a section that was created to accommodate low/micro-budget […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-13-the-next-section-comes-into-focus/feed/ 3 MARWENCOL https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/marwencol-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/marwencol-film-review/#comments Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:32:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2414

Marwencol has it all. It is an emotional, unsentimental tale that is both laugh out loud funny and intellectually engaging and at the same time it’s all TRUE! It will be one of the most talked about docs of next season.

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