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A Conversation With Travis Stevens (A WOUNDED FAWN)

Sammy Levine — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:23:55 +0000

Director/writer/producer Travis Stevens’ gonzo horror-genre bender, A Wounded Fawn, had its World Premiere at Tribeca and made the festival rounds (Fantastic Fest and FrightFest London) earlier this year. His film is a startlingly colorful and splashy genre piece exploring contemporary […]

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Nick Toti’s Digital Gods – Season 2, Transmission Seven

Tue, 11 Dec 2018 22:38:32 +0000

(HtN’s Nick Toti chimes in with his “Best of 2018” list. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month to help keep us going?) I’m going to break from my usual format for this article. […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART EIGHT: WENDY AND LUCY (2008)

Wed, 25 Apr 2018 16:03:47 +0000

There is an astonishing, heart-rending scene toward the middle of Kelly Reichardt’s pitch-perfect, Wendy and Lucy, an ascetic touching-without-being-cloying chronicle of a nomadic young girl (Michelle Williams), her dog Lucy and her broken-down car stuck outside of Portland, Oregon on her star-cross’d way […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978)

Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000

Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956)

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000

(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 KOKOFREAKBEAN

Wed, 10 May 2017 19:45:07 +0000

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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LEVIATHAN

Robert Greene — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 14:00:43 +0000

The progeny of direct cinema, experimental film and ethnography, Leviathan uses new cameras and an inventive technique to create something bracingly distinctive.

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