Luis Bunuel Archives - Hammer to Nail

ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008)

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000

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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ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000

(Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL

Christopher Reed — Tue, 17 Oct 2017 17:27:38 +0000

...a taut psychological thriller with surrealist tendencies that looks both backwards, to the absurdist themes of his debut, and forwards, to the increasingly satirical work of his final decade, while still continuing the sharp criticisms of societal inequities at the center of Buñuel's more realistic Mexican dramas.

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NEIGHBORING SOUNDS

Sat, 06 Apr 2013 16:16:37 +0000

Where Dogtooth felt like a good laugh with a smart new friend, Neighboring Sounds is like a brooding stranger who might turn on you at any moment.

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SXSW ’13: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

Mike S. Ryan — Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:51:14 +0000

Yes, it wasn’t a great year at SXSW, for a few reasons. I heard from several filmmakers that Tribeca’s new Artistic Director Frederic Boyer was extremely aggressive in approaching filmmakers who submitted to SXSW in pleading with them to bypass […]

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TIGER TAIL IN BLUE

Mike S. Ryan — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:36:31 +0000

Tiger Tail in Blue is a measured look at working class married life that dares to remain true to life’s actual, mundane reality.

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A Conversation with Richard Peña

Nelson Kim — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000

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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Qualities Of Better Films #27 of 31: ACCESS TO THE SUBCONSCIOUS

Ted Hope — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 14:48:38 +0000

As film combines so many diverse elements, it has a profound ability to access what lies beneath. We experience emotions and sensations in a way with cinema that we do nowhere else. David Lynch is certainly the leader among contemporary […]

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