Sidney Poitier Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/sidney-poitier/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:11:32 +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 Sidney Poitier Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/sidney-poitier/ 32 32 HAMMER TO NAIL’S BEST FILMS OF 2022 https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/htn-2022/ https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/htn-2022/#comments Sun, 18 Dec 2022 21:05:03 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=38560

After a truly difficult few years, 2022 seemed like it had so much promise. While things overall are certainly “better,” there remains an existential feeling of impending doom. It’s weird too because ostensibly, for our purposes at HtN, movies in […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/htn-2022/feed/ 1 SIDNEY https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sidney/ Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:04:17 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=37959

(The 2022 Toronto Film Festival or, TIFF runs September 8-18 in Toronto, Canada. HtN has tons of coverage coming your way so, stay tuned! Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Sidney. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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]]> Day One of the TIFF Industry Conference https://www.hammertonail.com/film-festivals/tiff-industry-conference-1/ Thu, 10 Sep 2020 18:47:26 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33309

Day one of the TIFF Industry Conference kicked off with Master Class featuring Viola Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon speaking on their production company and the journey of normalizing Black stories in a system not designed for it. The […]

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]]> THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/heat-of-the-night-criterion/ Tue, 12 Feb 2019 21:52:40 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30743

The bonus features on this disc are a mix of pieces ported over from a previous MGM DVD release and some new stuff.

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]]> A Conversation with Samuel D. Pollard (ACORN AND THE FIRESTORM & SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I’VE GOTTA BE ME https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/sam-pollard-interview/ Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:41:48 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29887

(Readers, please note: you can hear a portion of this interview on Chris Reed’s excellent podcast on documentwry filmmaking, The Fog of Truth.) I met with director (and NYU professor) Samuel D. Pollard on Saturday, March 24, at the 2018 […]

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]]> SAMMY DAVIS JR.: I GOTTA BE ME https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/sammy-davis-jr-doc/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 19:12:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29510

Davis, through his charisma, popularity and sheer brilliance, helped pave the way for future performers of color. Our world today – especially today – is hardly racism-free, but if it is a little better than it once was, Davis played at least a small role in that transformation.

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]]> FILMS OF SHIRLEY CLARKE, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-films-of-shirley-clarke-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-films-of-shirley-clarke-film-review/#comments Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:08:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=844

(The Films of Shirley Clarke screens at Anthology Film Archives from April 22nd-28th, 2009. If you’re not able to attend, you can purchase the DVD set Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 at Amazon, which includes Clarke’s 1958 film Bridges-Go-Round.) […]

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