Roger Corman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/roger-corman/ What to Watch Mon, 05 Feb 2024 19:19:53 +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 Roger Corman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/roger-corman/ 32 32 A Conversation with John Sayles (LONE STAR) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/#comments Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:50:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=49844

John Sayles is one of the great American filmmakers. Graduating from Williams college in 1972, Sayles moved to east Boston to work a factory job. During that time he wrote short stories, submitting them to various magazines. These short stories […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/john-sayles/feed/ 1 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: WALKABOUT https://www.hammertonail.com/blu-ray/curbside-criterion/walkabout/ Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:10:58 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40635

(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are 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, Jonathan Marlow travels into […]

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]]> MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/memory-the-origins-of-alien/ Wed, 16 Oct 2019 19:01:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30818

Which makes for a mostly riveting documentary, gorgeously shot (and presented in the same aspect ratio as Alien’s original wide-screen anamorphic format), and guilty only of presenting too much information

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]]> A Conversation with Alexandre O. Philippe (MEMORY: THE ORIGINS OF ALIEN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/alexandre-philippe/ Fri, 26 Apr 2019 17:16:55 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31069

I met with director Alexandre O. Philippe at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2019, to discuss his documentary Memory: The Origins of Alien (which I also reviewed). The film dives into the rich history of the making […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART SIX: GAS, FOOD LODGING (1992) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/on-the-fringe-6/ Wed, 11 Apr 2018 18:20:22 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29409 Allison Anders’ sophomore feature Gas, Food Lodging is an aspirational film about fantasy. It is in many ways an antithesis of the kind of movies I’ve been chronicling and will continue to discuss with my “On the Fringe” series. Gas, Food Lodging is in fact an […]

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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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]]> MONKEY WARFARE and LESLIE, MY NAME IS EVIL https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/monkey-warfare-leslie-my-name-is-evil-film-review/ Thu, 19 May 2011 16:19:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=10609

Both Monkey Warfare and Leslie, My Name is Evil stand aside recent films about the failures of a not-too long ago radicalism.

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]]> THE SHADOW OF ST. PATRICK’S by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/the-shadow-of-st-patrick%e2%80%99s-by-noah-buschel/ Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:49:32 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1014 It was John Cassavetes, or so the story goes, who told Martin Scorsese to make personal films. Cassavetes had just watched Boxcar Bertha, and while he appreciated it for what it was—a solid Roger Corman B movie—he knew Scorsese had […]

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