Michelangelo Antonioni Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/michelangelo-antonioni/ What to Watch Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:27:06 +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 Michelangelo Antonioni Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/michelangelo-antonioni/ 32 32 IL GRIDO Restoration Trailer: Michelangelo Antonioni’s Underseen Masterpiece Gets the 4K Treatment https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/il-grido-4k-restoration/ Mon, 21 Oct 2024 20:27:06 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51885 Michelangelo Antonioni's IL GRIDO

Before breaking the mold of cinema with his sensations L’avventura and Blow-Out, Michelangelo Antonioni examined a rootless life in his 1957 neorealist drama, Il Grido. Restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and Compass Film, it follows mechanic Aldo […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: BLOW OUT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/blow-out-criterion/ Tue, 20 Sep 2022 20:01:37 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37977

(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 looks and […]

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]]> Nelson Kim’s New Directors/New Films 2019 Report https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/nelson-kims-ndnf-19/ Wed, 01 May 2019 17:05:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31047 The 48th annual edition of New Directors/New Films, jointly presented by the Museum of Modern Art and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, came to a close on April 7. Showcasing the work of first- and second-time directors from around […]

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]]> New York Film Festival 2018 Report: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/other-side-of-the-wind/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 14:34:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30250 (The Other Side of the Wind screened at the New York Film Festival on September 29 and October 10, 2018. The film will premiere on Netflix on November 2, accompanied by limited theatrical screenings.) This review contains spoilers. The 2018 […]

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]]> MA https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/ma-film-review/ Thu, 14 May 2015 19:08:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24551

(Ma was screened as a work-in-progress as part of MoMA PS1’s Sunday Sessions during the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival.) I first discovered Celia Rowlson-Hall’s work at the Borscht Film Festival in 2012. Borscht is less a film festival than a […]

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]]> FYNBOS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fynbos-film-review/ Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:00:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19610

Named after the characteristic bush that grows in this land, Fynbos goes deep into its subjects’ psyches as they play for huge personal stakes, flirting with self-destruction over ownership of a piece of land that in a sense can’t be owned.

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]]> A Conversation with Richard Peña https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-richard-pena/ Mon, 08 Oct 2012 12:00:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18616 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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]]> A Conversation With Calvin Lee Reeder (THE OREGONIAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-calvin-lee-reeder-the-oregonian/ Thu, 07 Jun 2012 16:11:41 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17444 Calvin Lee Reeder’s The Oregonian is a horrifying film, if not what is commonly perceived as a “horror” film. It is deeply and fundamentally upsetting in an off-putting way that will sicken and alarm you if your idea of pure […]

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]]> ADVENTURE, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-adventure-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-adventure-film-review/#comments Mon, 23 May 2011 13:00:00 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1280

Mike Brune’s debut as a writer/director combines a Haneke-esque tension with a dose of off-kilter humor to produce The Adventure, a work that can be most effectively (albeit awkwardly) described as an existentialist mystery/comedy/thriller.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-adventure-film-review/feed/ 2 ROBERTO ROSSELLINI’S WAR TRILOGY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/roberto-rossellinis-war-trilogy-film-review/ Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:04:35 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2238

(Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is available from Amazon.) The challenge is to see things with a fresh eye. When a film has been called a “classic” for too long, it comes to us cloaked in a fog of received opinion, […]

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