Taxi Driver Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/taxi-driver/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:59:22 +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 Taxi Driver Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/taxi-driver/ 32 32 ARREBATO (RAPTURE) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/arrebato/ Fri, 22 Oct 2021 19:13:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35712

Spanish director Iván Zulueta’s cult film Arrebato will have a limited theatrical run and home video release this October before a gorgeous 4K release this fall. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per […]

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]]> WOJNAROWICZ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/wojnarowicz/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 22:36:01 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34749

(Director Chris McKim’s fascinating documentary Wojnarowicz is available now on VOD via Kino Marquee. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) We all have experienced those moments at […]

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]]> FUNNY FACE INTERROGATES THE REVENGE GENRE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/funny-face/ Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:07:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=34741

(Tim Sutton’s 5th film Funny Face is available now via Gravitas Ventures. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Tim Sutton’s first film, Pavilion was an exciting […]

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]]> FIRST REFORMED https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/first-reformed/ Fri, 04 May 2018 16:46:16 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29558

Though occasionally almost too austere for its own good, and bleak as hell, First Reformed is a carefully composed and constructed film that should probably be seen more than once, with cinematic rewards aplenty for those open to the Word of Schrader.

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-3/ Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29240 Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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]]> BULLIES ON SCREEN https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bullies-on-screen/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bullies-on-screen/#comments Wed, 23 Oct 2013 16:55:51 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=21982 The bully in movies has been around for nearly as long as the medium itself. At the end of Chaplin’s City Lights, the Tramp is broke, alone, on the street. At his lowest point, he feels the sticky pang of […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/bullies-on-screen/feed/ 1 TONY MANERO https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/tony-manero-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/tony-manero-film-review/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 21:53:06 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1298

(Tony Manero is being distributed by Lorber HT Digital. It opened at Cinema Village on Friday, July 3rd. Visit the film’s official website to learn more.) The first time I saw Pablo Larrain’s Tony Manero (at its 2008 New York […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/tony-manero-film-review/feed/ 3 MEMORY THIEF, THE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/drama/the-memory-thief-film-review/ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:47:30 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2330

(The Memory Thief is now available on DVD through 7th Art. Visit the film’s official website to view the trailer.) In a 1957 essay, Norman Mailer wrote that the Holocaust “presented a mirror to the human condition which blinded anyone […]

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