Norman Mailer Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/norman-mailer/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:05:06 +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 Norman Mailer Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/norman-mailer/ 32 32 Nelson Kim’s 2019 New York Film Festival Report https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2019-nyff-wrap/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2019-nyff-wrap/#comments Mon, 28 Oct 2019 18:38:28 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31665

The 2019 New York Film Festival began with a bang — the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s feverishly anticipated The Irishman. And The Irishman itself ended with a whimper, or something close to it: This long (three and a half […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/2019-nyff-wrap/feed/ 3 Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.2) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3-2/ Wed, 19 Sep 2018 19:03:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30100 (The following is the second half of Nick Toti’s interview with Megan Boyle and Tao Lin of MDMAfilms. Part one can be found here.) Hammer to Nail: A lot of reviews of your movies that I’ve read compare the MDMAfilms project […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Six (Part 3.1) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/digital-gods-2-6-3/ Thu, 06 Sep 2018 18:35:13 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30094 This interview is the third and final installment of my series on MDMAfilms. To be as frank as possible, I’m not terribly happy with how this interview turned out, but I think it’s worth publishing regardless. Both Megan Boyle and […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five (Part 2) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/experimental/digital-gods-2-5-2/ Wed, 22 Aug 2018 18:19:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30034 In the last Digital Gods installment, we examined the cultural context surrounding MDMAfilms, the production company created by authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. This article will now look at the actual movies that MDMAfilms produced. Particularly, this piece will […]

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]]> Nick Toti’s “Digital Gods”- Season Two, Transmission Five https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/digital-gods-2-5/ Wed, 15 Aug 2018 17:54:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30010 MDMAfilms was, in practical terms, a short-lived but highly productive video production company created, operated, and consisting entirely of the young American authors Megan Boyle and Tao Lin. Technically, MDMAfilms never dissolved or officially stopped operating, but, to my knowledge, […]

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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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]]> A Spectacular Weekend of Movie Watching In Actual Theaters – Thursday March 5th Through Sunday March 8th https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/a-spectacular-weekend-of-movie-watching-in-actual-theaters-thursday-march-5th-through-sunday-march-8th/ Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:09:54 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1056 First off, let me just say that this post isn’t being written as a taunt to non-New Yorkers. But when a weekend like this arrives, it mustn’t just be recognized, it must be hoorayed! For those of you who won’t […]

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]]> FINGERS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/fingers-film-review/ Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:47:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1880

(Fingers screens Friday, January 30th, and Saturday, January 31st, as part of the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s series “Mavericks and Outsiders: Positif Celebrates American Cinema.” You can also buy it on DVD at Amazon.) A pistol-whipping. A near-rape. A […]

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]]> MEMORY THIEF, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/the-memory-thief-film-review/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:47:30 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2330

(The Memory Thief is now available on DVD through 7th Art. Visit the film’s official website to view the trailer.) In a 1957 essay, Norman Mailer wrote that the Holocaust “presented a mirror to the human condition which blinded anyone […]

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