Margaret Brown Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/margaret-brown/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:34:46 +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 Margaret Brown Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/margaret-brown/ 32 32 2022 Cinema Eye Honors Nominations: ‘Fire of Love,’ ‘The Territory,’ and ‘All That Breathes’ Lead the Way https://www.hammertonail.com/features/2022-cinema-eye-honors-nominations/ Thu, 10 Nov 2022 21:29:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38355

After a year of new groundbreaking documentaries, the Cinema Eye Honors has announced the full slate of nominations for its 16th Annual Awards Ceremony. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’s The Territory, both National Geographic films, lead with […]

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]]> A Conversation with Margaret Brown (DESCENDANT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/margaret-brown/ Wed, 02 Nov 2022 20:39:15 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38287

In 1860, 52 years after the U.S. banned the international trafficking of enslaved Africans to our shores, one Timothy Meaher, an Alabama businessman, thought it would be a lark to circumvent the law and show what he could get away […]

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]]> DESCENDANT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/descendant/ Sat, 15 Oct 2022 19:36:45 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38177

(The 2022 Middleburg Film Festival runs October 13-16 in lovely Middleburg, VA. Lead critic Chris Reed is in attendance and submits this movie review of Descendant. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Back in 2008, documentarian […]

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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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]]> A Conversation With Margaret Brown (THE GREAT INVISIBLE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-margaret-brown-the-great-invisible/ Tue, 28 Oct 2014 23:18:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23661 (The Great Invisible is being distributed by RADiUS-TWC and opens theatrically on October 29, 2014. It world premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival, where it won the Documentary Grand Jury Prize. Visit the film’s website to learn more.) Margaret […]

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]]> Watch TOWNES VAN ZANDT: BE HERE TO LOVE ME For Free Online (Pitchfork TV: One Week Only) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/watch-townes-van-zandt-be-here-to-love-me-for-free-online-pitchfork-tv-one-week-only/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/watch-townes-van-zandt-be-here-to-love-me-for-free-online-pitchfork-tv-one-week-only/#comments Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:35:52 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=988 Bumping into Margaret Brown at last night’s screening of The Sacrifice at the Walter Reade reminded me to point everyone in the direction of Pitchfork TV, where for one week only they’re streaming Brown’s excellent documentary Townes Van Zandt: Be […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/watch-townes-van-zandt-be-here-to-love-me-for-free-online-pitchfork-tv-one-week-only/feed/ 1 THE ORDER OF MYTHS at Bell House (4/28) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-order-of-myths-at-bell-house-428/ Wed, 27 May 2009 07:25:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1586 Brooklyn Based is a neat new collective that provides, in their own words, “Three emails a week that will turn you onto the best food, art, shops, services, and people in the County of Kings.” BB contributor Rachael Rakes is […]

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]]> 2009 SPIRIT AWARDS PREVIEW https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/2009-spirit-awards-preview/ Fri, 20 Feb 2009 11:22:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2896 Well, folks, the time has come yet again for the annual one-two punch of the Spirit Awards and the Oscars, a weekend that is no doubt certain to restore one’s faith in humankind and remind everyone what truly matters in […]

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]]> A Conversation With Sean Baker (PRINCE OF BROADWAY/TAKE OUT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-sean-baker-prince-of-broadway-take-out/ Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:55:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3118 Back in November, before the Spirit Award nominations had been announced and before even more festival awards had been handed to him, Sean Baker and his Prince of Broadway team was enjoying their Best Feature Narrative win in Woodstock. Combined […]

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