Melvin Van Peebles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/melvin-van-peebles/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:01:56 +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 Melvin Van Peebles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/melvin-van-peebles/ 32 32 EARLY SHORT FILMS OF THE FRENCH NEW WAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/early-short-films-of-the-french-new-wave/ Wed, 20 Sep 2023 16:42:27 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40454

With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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]]> A Conversation with Joe Tropea and Robert A. Emmons Jr. (SICKIES MAKING FILMS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/tropea-emmons-interview/ Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:35:06 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29747 I met with director Joe Tropea (Hit & Stay) and co-writer/editor Robert A. Emmons Jr. (Diagram for Delinquents) on Friday, May 4, 2018, at the Maryland Film Festival (MdFF), to discuss their fascinating new documentary Sickies Making Films (which I […]

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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 2009 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2009-hammer-to-nail-awards/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/2009-hammer-to-nail-awards/#comments Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:30:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=594 Welcome to the second annual Hammer to Nail Awards! The ever-increasing torrent of end-of-the-year lists and trophies can become an overwhelming blur, which is just one of the reasons why we here at HTN have made a commitment to do […]

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(Melvin Van Peebles’ latest film is opening in NYC at Cinema Village on Friday, 8/21/09, followed by Chicago on 8/28 and LA on 9/4. NOTE: This review was first posted in conjunction with the Gotham Awards, where Van Peebles was […]

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]]> STORY OF A 3-DAY PASS (LA PERMISSION) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/story-of-a-3-day-pass-la-permission-film-review/ Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:28:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2284

In 1967, Melvin Van Peebles became the first African-American to direct a narrative feature film in twenty years, following DIY pioneer Oscar Micheaux’s final film, The Betrayal, with his Story of a 3-Day Pass (La Permission). Ironically, this stretch of […]

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