Sean Porter Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/sean-porter/ What to Watch Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:43:04 +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 Sean Porter Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/sean-porter/ 32 32 KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER Re-Release Trailer: The Zellner Bros’ Breakout Hit Returns to Theaters For Its 10th Anniversary https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/kumiko-the-treasure-hunter-re-release/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 20:43:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50318 Rinko Kikuchi in the Zellner Bros' KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER

Ten years ago, David and Nathan Zellner premiered a film at Sundance about the urban legend of a Japanese woman who died trying to find the fictional Fargo suitcase full of cash. That film became their breakout hit Kumiko, The […]

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]]> Suddenly CinemaScope https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/suddenly-cinemascope-by-patrick-wang/ Tue, 10 Feb 2015 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23929 Watching so many of 2014’s films all at once, it was hard not to notice. I had sensed it coming for a while, but now it had arrived and was clearly running the show. But why? I am talking about […]

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]]> A Conversation With Eliza Hittman (IT FELT LIKE LOVE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-eliza-hittman-it-felt-like-love/ Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:05:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22970 (It Felt Like Love is now available on home video through Lorber Films: DVD, Amazon Instant, iTunes. It world premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically by Variance Films. Visit the film’s official website for more […]

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]]> IT FELT LIKE LOVE https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/it-felt-like-love-film-review/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:15:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22893

Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love lives is an unadorned, gut-wrenching depiction of what it’s like to be young and look around you, and have no idea where you are, who you are with, or how you got here.

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]]> SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2014-michael-tully-wrap-up/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22675 As a director who presented a new feature at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I have found all of the press coming out of Park City lamenting the “meager deals” and somehow linking that to the “lackluster quality” of the […]

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]]> BAMcinemaFest 2013 — An Overview https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bamcinemafest-2013-an-overview/ Wed, 19 Jun 2013 14:30:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20952 Are you ready, New York City movie lovers, for the finest American independent film festival showcase your monstrous city has to offer? If so, then good, because BAMcinemaFest is back. This year’s edition runs from Wednesday, June 19th, through Friday, […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/6/29 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/new-dvd-releases-june-29-2010/ Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:38:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5260 Well this sure is a meaty week with lots to choose from: Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be The Same (Factory 25) — In the same way that so many directors have recently adopted a lazy, pseudo-documentary style to […]

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]]> MIKE S. RYAN’S SUNDANCE ‘10 WRAP-UP – Why Sundance Still Matters In The World https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/mike-s-ryan%e2%80%99s-sundance-%e2%80%9810-wrap-up-why-sundance-still-matters-in-the-world/ https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/mike-s-ryan%e2%80%99s-sundance-%e2%80%9810-wrap-up-why-sundance-still-matters-in-the-world/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:26:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1694 On my fourth day, I finally emerged from my screening doldrums. After the streets and the buses became free of the non-film skiers and LA lookeeloos and I saw 3 Backyards, Blue Valentine, and Winter’s Bone, I started to think […]

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