Stranger Than Paradise Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/stranger-than-paradise/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:56:54 +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 Paradise Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/stranger-than-paradise/ 32 32 A SELECTION OF 2022 SUNDANCE FILM FEST SHORTS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/2022-sundance-shorts/ Sat, 29 Jan 2022 01:14:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36148

With various styles, Sundance programming in the short film category is sometimes amongst the most exciting. I looked at my top 10 favorites in the shorts competition, with too many great choices to highlight this year. All films are available […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART FIVE: PERMANENT VACATION (1980) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-5/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 21:33:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29357 One of the many hurdles over which I’ve needed to continuously hop in my “On the Fringe” series is the urgency to come up with synonyms and, ultimately, euphemisms for the descriptor “deceptively simple” in the proper encapsulation of films […]

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]]> A Conversation With Joel Potrykus (THE ALCHEMIST COOKBOOK) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/potrykus-interview/ Fri, 07 Oct 2016 17:04:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27063 (Charles Poekel caught up with Joel Potrykus at BAM Cinemafest regarding his latest film The Alchemist Cookbook. The result is the following chat which is one of the best interviews you’ll read all year! Potrykus’ film is available NOW in a pay-what-you-want format.) I […]

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]]> Times Change Inside BAMCinematek’s 1980s Time Capsule https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/times-change-inside-bamcinemateks-1980s-time-capsule/ Mon, 10 Aug 2015 04:49:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=24913 (BamCinematek has really been bringing some amazing retrospectives to Brooklyn of late. From their John Carpener retrospective to their look at cinematic memory with “The Vertigo Effect” those of us who don’t live on the east coast are getting mighty jealous of those […]

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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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]]> GIMME THE LOOT https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/gimme-the-loot-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/gimme-the-loot-film-review/#comments Mon, 25 Mar 2013 14:00:19 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20118

Never sacrificing one for the other, Gimme The Loot somehow manages to be both raw and sweet at the same time.

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