mourning Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/mourning/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 16:08:45 +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 mourning Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/mourning/ 32 32 BETTER THINGS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/better-things-film-review/ Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:00:18 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2096 (Better Things is screening as part of “Film Comment Selects” at the Walter Reade Theater. Visit the film’s French website to watch a striking trailer.) A sublime experiment in mood and texture, Better Things is that rare film which seems […]

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]]> CIAO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/ciao-film-review/ Fri, 05 Dec 2008 09:45:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1874

(Ciao is now available on DVD through Regent Releasing. Visit the film’s official website for more information.) I saw Yen Tan’s Ciao at this year’s NewFest. By the time I got into the theater, it was pretty crowded. I took […]

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]]> MEADOWLARK https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/meadowlark-film-review/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:17:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1346

(Meadowlark is screening at MoMA this weekend: Saturday at 8:15pm and Sunday at 3:45pm. Visit the film’s official website for more information.) A stunning meditation on the central formative events in his young life, twenty-seven year old Taylor Greeson’s film […]

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]]> ORPHANS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/orphans-film-review/ Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:49:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2198

The tone and style of Ry Russo-Young’s debut feature Orphans might take some getting used to. That’s a compliment. Orphans takes itself seriously in a way that many low-budget mini-DV films made by young directors do not. Compared to the […]

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