Robert Bresson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/robert-bresson/ What to Watch Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:10 +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 Bresson Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/robert-bresson/ 32 32 A Conversation with Noah Segan, Rian Johnson, John Turturro, Giancarlo Esposito, Tatiana Maslany (THE ONLY LIVING PICKPOCKET IN NEW YORK) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york/ Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=55151

Noah Segan is a fourth-generation New Yorker who has been a part of the independent and genre film community for nearly two decades. Early in his career, filmmaker Rian Johnson cast Segan in the Sundance Award-winning hit Brick, beginning a […]

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]]> QUATRE NUITS D’UN RÊVEUR (FOUR NIGHTS OF A DREAMER) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/four-nights-of-a-dreamer/ Thu, 04 Sep 2025 14:18:05 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53968

(Check out Johnathan Marlow’s movie review of Four Nights of a Dreamer. A new 4K restoration plays September 5-18 at Film Forum in New York before hitting more theaters this fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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]]> NYFF62 Revivals Lineup: Bresson, Sembène, Wiseman, and More Getting the Restoration Treatment https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/nyff62-revivals-lineup/ Thu, 22 Aug 2024 18:47:59 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=51482 62nd New York Film Festival Revivals Lineup

The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, has announced the Revivals lineup for its 62nd edition. The Revivals section showcases significant works from renowned filmmakers that have been digitally remastered, restored, and preserved with the assistance […]

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]]> EO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/eo/ Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:09:02 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37149

(The 2022 Cannes Film Festival runs May 17-28. Our own Jack Schenker is at the fest and has this movie review of EO. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page). EO is a movie that takes place from the […]

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]]> DIANE https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/diane-review/ Tue, 22 May 2018 19:20:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29655

One could also call the single-mindedness of Diane’s thematic development "Bressonian." But this comparison would undermine the significance of the more freewheeling side of Jones’ first stab at the fiction film.

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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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]]> DON’T LEAVE HOME https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/dont-leave-home/ Tue, 27 Mar 2018 16:14:43 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29283

Don’t Leave Home suggests that when religion falls into manipulative hands with ulterior motives (namely power and wealth) it can become menacingly evil.

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]]> ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (Hammer to Nail is excited to bring author and filmmaker Mathew Klickstein on-board with his new column, On the Fringe) Everybody thought I was crazy to do it. After investing my late teens/early twenties into LA’s dream factory, capped with the […]

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]]> A Conversation With Anna Rose Holmer (THE FITS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-anna-rose-holmer-the-fits/ Thu, 09 Jun 2016 18:25:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=26546 (Distributed by Oscilloscope, The Fits opened in NYC on June 3rd, and opens in LA, Cincinnati, and Pasadena on June 10th before expanding into other cities.) Though it’s only her narrative feature debut, Anna Rose Holmer has nonetheless delivered one […]

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]]> STARRED UP https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/starred-up-film-review/ Wed, 27 Aug 2014 17:11:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23543

What sets David MacKenzie’s film apart is his willingness to trade some of the shock and awe of prison narratives for character development.

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