The 400 Blows Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-400-blows/ What to Watch Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +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 The 400 Blows Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-400-blows/ 32 32 A Conversation with Richard Linklater (NOUVELLE VAGUE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/linklater-nouvelle-vague/ Fri, 14 Nov 2025 18:45:56 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54439

Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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]]> A Conversation with Arnaud Desplechin (SPECTATEURS!) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/arnaud-desplechin/ Thu, 27 Feb 2025 19:07:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52692

“You know, you’re Irish, so when I’m saying Dédalus you’re probably thinking Joyce.” It’s early December in Avelino and Arnaud Desplechin isn’t really talking  A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The French director’s latest, Spectateurs!, reintroduces the […]

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]]> CHICKEN FOR LINDA! https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/chicken-for-linda/ Fri, 12 Apr 2024 20:31:11 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=50661

(Check out Chris Reed’s Chicken for Linda! movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Despite the many comic shenanigans on display, the recurring subtext of the animated French film Chicken for Linda! (or “Linda veut du poulet” in the […]

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]]> THE NOVICE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/#comments Wed, 15 Dec 2021 19:50:23 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35966

(LBGTQ+ writer/director Lauren Hadaway’s film The Novice is nominated for 5 Independent Spirit Awards and his theaters and on-demand Friday, December 17 via IFC Films. Here is Chris Reed’s movie review of The Novice. Like what you see here on Hammer […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-novice/feed/ 1 ON THE FRINGE: Loquacious introduction + On the Bowery (1956) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-1/ Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:42:01 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29116 (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 Alex Ross Perry (THE COLOR WHEEL) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/#comments Fri, 18 May 2012 16:38:42 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=17202 Since the long planned HTN conversation between myself and Alex Ross Perry was also shaping up to be his last—at least with regards to his film The Color Wheel‘s impending theatrical release in New York City (on Friday, May 18, […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-alex-ross-perry-the-color-wheel/feed/ 6 CATCHER IN THE RYE, THE MOVIE https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 14:52:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=7839 I was going to see a friend’s play called In The Wake at The Public. The other play going on was called Gatz—an unlikely sensation of a play where a bunch of actors read The Great Gatsby in its entirety. […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/catcher-in-the-rye-the-movie-noah-buschel/feed/ 4 TWO IN THE WAVE https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/#comments Wed, 19 May 2010 17:22:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=4228

(Two In The Wave was picked up for distribution by Lorber Films and is now available on DVD. It opened theatrically at the Film Forum on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010. Visit the Film Forum’s page for the film to learn […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/documentary/two-in-the-wave-film-review/feed/ 1 Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 6 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/filmmaker-reflections-the-2000s-vol-6/ Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:37:07 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=2844 (If you haven’t already, please be sure to check out Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 1 for a series explanation and to read the first batch of reflections.) Filmmaker Reflections – The 2000s: Vol. 6 We would advise anyone […]

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]]> NETFLIX HIDDEN GEMS: Issue #1 https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/netflix-hidden-gems-1/ Wed, 05 Aug 2009 20:07:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=72 Good morning, class. Are you ready to participate in Hammer to Nail’s new monthly film history seminar? Credit goes to Mike S. Ryan for coming up with the spark for this new list idea, in which our core stable of […]

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