Los Angeles Film Festival Archives - Hammer to Nail

SAWDUST CITY

Brandon Harris — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:15:41 +0000

Sawdust City, which owes at least some small debt to Cassavetes, as well as to Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail, rather indulges us in a doomed brotherhood that we’re rooting for even as we’re watching it fall to pieces.

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A Conversation With Leonard Retel Helmrich, Hettie Naaijkens Retel-Helmrich, and Jasper Naaijkens (POSITION AMONG THE STARS)

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 18:58:37 +0000

“Milk and four sugars,” Leonard Retel Helmrich replies, when asked how he likes his coffee. We’re on an outdoor patio, on a typically overcast June day in L.A., with Dutch-Indonesian director Helmrich, his sister and producer Hetty Naaijkens-Retel Helmrich, and […]

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TRUE/FALSE 2010 PART TWO – A Festival Apart

Pamela Cohn — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:31:37 +0000

(If you haven’t already, read Part One of Pamela Cohn’s wrap-up right here.) This year, the T/F team watched about 700 films sent to them for consideration for their carefully curated festival of just 40 selections. The programming ethos is […]

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OCTOBER COUNTRY

Pamela Cohn — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:18:23 +0000

(October Country is now available on DVD through Carnivalesque Films. It opened theatrically at the IFC Center on February 12, 2010. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) Social conservatives in today’s society often express concern over the purported […]

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