NBA Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/nba/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:00:20 +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 NBA Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/nba/ 32 32 LENNY COOKE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/lenny-cooke-film-review/ Wed, 18 Dec 2013 15:45:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22242

The Safdie Brothers' documentary feature debut plays up their subject’s squandered potential while also preserving his humanity and his status as a victim of the fundamentally crooked professional amateur sports complex.

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]]> A Conversation With Josh and Benny Safdie and Adam Shopkorn (LENNY COOKE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-josh-and-benny-safdie-and-adam-shopkorn-lenny-cooke/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-josh-and-benny-safdie-and-adam-shopkorn-lenny-cooke/#comments Wed, 04 Dec 2013 14:00:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20466 (Lenny Cooke opens theatrically on Friday, December 6, 2013. It world premiered in the Viewpoints Section at the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. Visit the film’s official website to learn more. NOTE: This piece was first published on April 24, 2013.) […]

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If I had to sum up the Borscht Film Festival in one word it would be ‘youth.’ The Borscht Corp collective dates back to high school friendships formed at Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from what I […]

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]]> ONCE BROTHERS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/once-brothers-film-review/ Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:06:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6764

It isn’t just the recent streak of less-than-mediocre entries in ESPN’s 30 For 30 series that makes Michael Tolajian’s Once Brothers stand out. It’s a very strong work, in which the grand scope of the Yugoslav Wars of the early 1990s is personalized through the relationship—and unfortunate falling out—between former NBA stars Vlade Divac and Drazen Petrovic.

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