Robert Altman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/robert-altman/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:30:16 +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 Robert Altman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/robert-altman/ 32 32 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: TIME BANDITS https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/curbside-criterion/time-bandits/ Wed, 12 Jul 2023 17:49:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=39865

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we’re all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, our new addition to the […]

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(Cinephiles across the globe have been blessed with weekly releases of classic films that have been given the 4K treatment. Hammer to Nail is full of cinephiles and thus, we bring you Restoration Cinema, a new area where our staff can […]

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]]> 18 AND 1/2 https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/18-and-1-2/ Tue, 19 Oct 2021 18:35:02 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35688

(Indie film stalwart Dan Mirvish is back with the kooky 18 1/2. The film is currently making the festival rounds. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Director […]

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]]> CHAINED FOR LIFE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/chained-for-life-2/ Sat, 28 Sep 2019 17:45:14 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31516

"Chained for Life" is a film to get lost in...

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]]> A Conversation with Tony Oswald (GREAT LIGHT) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/tony-oswald-interview/ Wed, 23 Jan 2019 17:48:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30649 (You can watch Tony Oswald’s fantastic short film Great Light at the end of this interview. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month to help keep us going?) Hammer to Nail: So, we met in person […]

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]]> A Conversation with Dan Mirvish (BERNARD AND HUEY) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/dan-mirvish/ Wed, 17 Oct 2018 18:57:08 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30282 I met with director Dan Mirvish (Between Us) – co-founder of the Slamdance Film Festival – on Saturday, September 16, 2018, at Baltimore’s Maryland Film Festival-owned Parkway Theatre, to discuss his new narrative feature, Bernard and Huey, which is available now on all […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART TEN: TANGERINE (2015) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-10/ Wed, 23 May 2018 17:26:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29660 “There is a class of people in this world who have fallen into the lowest degree of humiliation, far below beggary, and who are deprived not only of all social consideration but also, in everybody’s opinion, of the specific human […]

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]]> A Conversation with Michael Tully (DON’T LEAVE HOME) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/michael-tully/ Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:35:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29468 I met with filmmaker Michael Tully (the former editor of this site), on Friday, March 16, at SXSW 2018, to discuss his latest movie, Don’t Leave Home (reviewed by Don Simpson), which premiered at the festival. The film, a disturbing […]

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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 Conversation with KOKOFREAKBEAN https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/kokofreakbean-interview/ Wed, 10 May 2017 19:45:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=28098 Introductory Note: Kokofreakbean (read my adventure with him here) is a contradiction. He is simultaneously both guarded and incredibly candid, sometimes alternating from one to the other without warning. It makes interviewing him both exciting and frustrating. These same emotions […]

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