Midnight Cowboy Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/midnight-cowboy/ What to Watch Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:29:09 +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 Midnight Cowboy Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/midnight-cowboy/ 32 32 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: PARIS, TEXAS https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/curbside-criterion/paris-texas/ Mon, 30 Dec 2024 19:29:09 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52306

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

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: MIDNIGHT COWBOY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/midnight-cowboy-criterion-blu/ Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:54:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29893

That keen eye permeates all of the film, in fact, from the haunting opening shot of a little boy alone on a playground in an abandoned drive-in movie theater to images of sparse Texas landscapes to a vision of New York that eschews iconographic shots of famous landmarks, save for a skyline shot or two.

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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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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #6 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-6/ Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:26:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1504 Another month has arrived. Yippee! It seems like every week Netflix is unleashing an onslaught of new titles available for Instant Streaming, which is making it very hard to keep up. But that’s a good thing. Just a daunting one. […]

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]]> HONEYMOON KILLERS, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/the-honeymoon-killers-film-review/ Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:55:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1892 The Honeymoon Killers (1969) is more Cain than even James Cain himself. Martha Beck and Ray Fernandez, the film’s central lovers/killers, could easily take the place of any of Cain’s partners-in-crime. They’re just as cold-blooded and ruthless as duplicitous wife […]

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