Mean Streets Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/mean-streets/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:11:21 +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 Mean Streets Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/mean-streets/ 32 32 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: MEAN STREETS https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/criterion-mean-streets/ Mon, 11 Dec 2023 17:25:52 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=41031

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook wanders the […]

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]]> A Conversation with Jason Orley & Cast (BIG TIME ADOLESCENCE) https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/a-conversation-with-jason-orley-big-time-adolescence/ Sun, 03 Feb 2019 20:08:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30701 Big Time Adolescence is the charming debut feature from Jason Orley and starring SNL star Pete Davidson. Davidson is supremely funny in a not-much-of-a-stretch role, and Griffin Gluck’s straight man (more like straight teenager) make an entirely appropriate and inappropriate […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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]]> THE CRITERION CORNER: THE SQUID AND THE WHALE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/squid-and-the-whale-criterion/ Fri, 13 Jan 2017 18:13:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27395

Released in 2005,The Squid and the Whale marked a turning point in the career of New York-based filmmaker Noah Baumbach.

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]]> THE SUMMERTIME SHOOT ‘EM UP by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/#comments Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:47:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18176 Christopher Nolan, director of The Dark Knight Rises, released a statement after the shooting in Aurora, Colorado, that killed 12 people and wounded more than 70. This part of what Nolan had to say really stuck out to me: “The […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-summertime-shoot-em-up-by-noah-buschel/feed/ 10 FIREWORKS ON DISPLAY https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/fireworks-on-display-hammer-to-nail-list/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/fireworks-on-display-hammer-to-nail-list/#comments Mon, 04 Jul 2011 13:30:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1520 (NOTE: This is a reposting of an old list but it never gets old so we’re reminding you of it once again!) In order to celebrate this 4th of July weekend, we thought we’d publish a new HTN list for […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/fireworks-on-display-hammer-to-nail-list/feed/ 2 THE SHADOW OF ST. PATRICK’S by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/the-shadow-of-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-by-noah-buschel/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1014 It was John Cassavetes, or so the story goes, who told Martin Scorsese to make personal films. Cassavetes had just watched Boxcar Bertha, and while he appreciated it for what it was—a solid Roger Corman B movie—he knew Scorsese had […]

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