Stranger Than Fiction Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/stranger-than-fiction/ What to Watch Mon, 18 Dec 2023 21:50:51 +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 Stranger Than Fiction Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/stranger-than-fiction/ 32 32 CANAL STREET MADAM, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/the-canal-street-madam-film-review/ Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:01:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=6841

Despite the lurid bravura of its title, The Canal Street Madam succeeds in reaching beyond this woman’s sensational backstory. Maier comes off more like a working-class single mom that a great many people (regardless of their day jobs) can relate to.

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]]> HOOP DREAMS at Stranger Than Fiction/ONLINE NOW https://www.hammertonail.com/htn-local/new-york-city/hoop-dreams-at-stranger-than-fictiononline-now/ Mon, 09 Nov 2009 21:13:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3366 When it arrived in 1994, Steve James’ Hoop Dreams was praised as an instant classic. Both critics and audiences alike rejoiced over this epic three-hour documentary portrait of Arthur Agee and William Gates, two African-American teenagers in inner city Chicago […]

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]]> LOOT at Stranger Than Fiction (11/2) https://www.hammertonail.com/htn-local/new-york-city/loot-at-stranger-than-fiction-112/ Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:23:02 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2510 Tonight’s “Monday Night Special” edition of the Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen hosted Stranger Than Fiction series at the IFC Center features one of the most dizzyingly profound films of recent memory. Darius Marder’s Loot isn’t just proof that truth […]

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]]> A Report From the 2009 Cinema Eye Honors https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/a-report-from-the-2009-cinema-eye-honors/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/a-report-from-the-2009-cinema-eye-honors/#comments Wed, 01 Apr 2009 19:41:39 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=320 (The following report was submitted by Steve Holmgren and Liz Byer. As we were unable to attend this year’s festivities, we were happy to receive it, and now, to post it.) Independent filmmaking is a notoriously thankless proposition, and this […]

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