Rick Alverson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/rick-alverson/ What to Watch Mon, 20 May 2024 17:28:37 +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 Rick Alverson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/rick-alverson/ 32 32 A Conversation with Babak Jalali (FREMONT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/babak-jalali-fremont/ Tue, 27 Feb 2024 17:01:15 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40399

Babak Jalali was born in Iran and raised in London. He attended film school in London and in 2016 released his feature debut Radio Dreams. The film was a hit at numerous festivals and he quickly followed it up with […]

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]]> A Conversation with Dustin Guy Defa (THE ADULTS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/theadults/ Thu, 12 Oct 2023 20:41:24 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40606

Dustin Guy Defa has been a filmmaker for over a decade now and his entire career has been recently added to the Criterion Collection. The collection is streaming on the Criterion Channel right now and includes 9 films short and […]

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]]> Mike S. Ryan’s (Very Biased) Favorite Low-Budget Indies Of The Decade https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/ https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/#comments Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:02:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=32368

Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/feed/ 1 A Conversation with Janicza Bravo (LEMON) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/janicza-bravo-interview/ Thu, 24 Aug 2017 23:17:41 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28463

I met with director Janicza Bravo on Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed her first feature, the experimental narrative Lemon, which premiered at Sundance (and was reviewed at SXSW by our very own Don […]

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]]> LEMON https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/lemon-review/ Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:19:25 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27765

Janicza Bravo’s debut feature, Lemon, is quite subtle in its contemplation of race and gender.

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]]> On Sundance Walkouts… https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/on-sundance-walkouts/ Sat, 23 Jan 2016 21:47:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25545 The last time I was able to attend the Sundance Film Festival was 2012 and it was a great year for smart, offbeat films. One film I was excited for was Rick Alverson’s The Comedy because I had heard tell […]

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]]> THE 2015 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-2015-hammer-to-nail-awards/ Tue, 05 Jan 2016 19:43:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25400 Introduction Greetings HtN readers, this is Don Lewis, Editor of the site and I wanted to welcome you to the 2015 Hammer to Nail Awards. Next month marks my official one-year anniversary of Editor of the site and it’s been […]

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]]> ENTERTAINMENT https://www.hammertonail.com/coming-soon/entertainment-movie-review/ Fri, 06 Nov 2015 18:28:25 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=25212

Entertainment is a nightmarish choose your own adventure story where the only thing more horrifying than a never-ending solitude is everything else.

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]]> The 2015 Oak Cliff Film Festival is Awesome! https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/the-2015-oak-cliff-film-festival-is-awesome/ Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:42:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24697 The 4th Annual Oak Cliff Film Festival in Dallas officially kicked off on Thursday, June 11 but I arrived a day early to get the lay of the land. I’m glad I did because there was a festival pre-party that […]

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]]> HEY EVERYBODY! IT’S THE 4TH ANNUAL OAK CLIFF FILM FESTIVAL! https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/hey-everybody-its-the-4th-annual-oak-cliff-film-festival/ Wed, 20 May 2015 23:49:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24588 In 2010 my pals Barak Epstein, Eric Steele and Jason Reimer) took over the lease for the Texas Theater in Oak Cliff, TX. While the theater had been in operation since 1931 it gained national notoriety in 1963 when JFK […]

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