New Orleans Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/new-orleans/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:11:25 +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 New Orleans Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/new-orleans/ 32 32 MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON Trailer: Ana Lily Amirpour Returns with a New Mind-Bending Thriller https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/mona-lisa-blood-moon/ Wed, 24 Aug 2022 13:51:22 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37790

As the Venice Film Festival is around the corner, one film that premiered at last year’s festival will finally get released next month. Writer-director Ana Lily Amirpour (A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night; The Bad Batch) returns with a […]

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]]> Short Film Contest Winner/Runner-Up: Fall ’18 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/fall-18-shorts-winners/ Sun, 10 Feb 2019 23:03:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30728 Yes, we here at Hammer to Nail realize it’s winter and 2019. BUT, the HtN Fall Short Film Contest started in the fall. And what a contest it was! Entries started slowly but really picked up by the time the […]

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]]> BORSCHT 8 FILM FESTIVAL https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/borscht-8-film-festival/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 17:32:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19273

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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]]> A Conversation With Bill Ross (TCHOUPITOULAS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bill-ross-tchoupitoulas/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bill-ross-tchoupitoulas/#comments Wed, 05 Dec 2012 14:24:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=19105 Bill and Turner Ross made quite a splash when they world premiered their film 45365 at the 2009 SXSW Film Festival. A tender portrait of the Ross Bros.’ hometown, Sidney, Ohio, 45365 plays like a greatest hits of a small […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-bill-ross-tchoupitoulas/feed/ 1 AFI FEST 2012 PREVIEW https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/afi-fest-2012-preview-paul-sbrizzi/ Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:26:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=18704 The 2012 AFI Fest runs from November 1st-8th. Visit the festival’s official website for more information. It’s AFI Fest time again—this year there will be splashy gala screenings including Ang Lee’s Life of Pi, Spielberg’s Lincoln, and the highly-touted Hitchcock, […]

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]]> CANAL STREET MADAM, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-canal-street-madam-film-review/ Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:01:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6841

Despite the lurid bravura of its title, The Canal Street Madam succeeds in reaching beyond this woman’s sensational backstory. Maier comes off more like a working-class single mom that a great many people (regardless of their day jobs) can relate to.

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/9/7 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/september-7-2010/ Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:35:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5952 Recommended Low and Behold (Sidetrack Films) — Though it wowed me after watching it in conjunction with its world premiere at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival, I sense that Low and Behold will only get better with age. Not only […]

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]]> A Conversation With Jeff Deutchman (11/4/08) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jeff-deutchman-11-4-08/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jeff-deutchman-11-4-08/#comments Thu, 25 Mar 2010 20:09:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=288 In the weeks leading up to the 2008 Presidential election, I received an email from Jeff Deutchman, who I first got to know through his job working in acquisitions at IFC Films. Sensing history was about to be made in […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-jeff-deutchman-11-4-08/feed/ 2 INVISIBLE GIRLFRIEND https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/invisible-girlfriend-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/invisible-girlfriend-film-review/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:11:49 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=876 (Invisible Girlfriend is now out on DVD through David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s homegrown label, Carnivalesque Films. Buy it there, or at Amazon.) The first time I saw David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s Invisible Girlfriend, until the film reached its […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/invisible-girlfriend-film-review/feed/ 2 DVD RELEASES 2009/7/7 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-200977/ Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:01:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=152 In a bit of accidental serendipity, this week’s slate of noteworthy new DVD releases is seriously sparse, which gives me the opportunity to plug a few titles that I idiotically spaced out on last week. Lovely By Surprise — If […]

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