The Conversation Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-conversation/ What to Watch Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:21:38 +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 Conversation Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-conversation/ 32 32 A Conversation with Moritz Binder (SEPTEMBER 5) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/moritz-binder/ Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:07:49 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=52617

German screenwriter Moritz Binder co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film September 5 together with director Tim Fehlbaum and American dialoguist Alex David. I reviewed the movie last fall and put it in my Top 10 for the year. In […]

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]]> BLACK BOX https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/black-box-2/ Thu, 28 Apr 2022 17:05:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36973

(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Black Box which opened this week in New York, and next week in Los Angeles. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When, at the start of Yann Gozlan’s […]

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]]> A Conversation with Midge Costin (MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/midge-costin/ Wed, 15 Jan 2020 18:19:54 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31919

I met with director Midge Costin on Monday, April 29, 2019, at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, to discuss her new documentary Making Waves: The Art of Cinematic Sound (which I also reviewed). In the film, Costin provides a comprehensive […]

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]]> MAKING WAVES: THE ART OF CINEMATIC SOUND https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/making-waves-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/making-waves-review/#comments Mon, 29 Apr 2019 21:44:03 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=31090

It’s all equally as entertaining as it is informative, and a vital addition to our understanding of how movies are made.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/making-waves-review/feed/ 2 SXSW ’13: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/sxsw-13-mike-s-ryans-wrap-up/ Fri, 22 Mar 2013 17:51:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20126 Yes, it wasn’t a great year at SXSW, for a few reasons. I heard from several filmmakers that Tribeca’s new Artistic Director Frederic Boyer was extremely aggressive in approaching filmmakers who submitted to SXSW in pleading with them to bypass […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2010/8/17 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/august-17-2010/ Tue, 17 Aug 2010 13:51:09 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5758 Recommends The Conversation (Lionsgate) — Truth be told, I didn’t do enough research to know what makes the release of this Francis Ford Coppola classic different from any others—had it become unavailable for some dumb reason?—but it is The Conversation, […]

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]]> MILLION DOLLAR BABY And The Lost Art of the Metaphor by Noah Buschel https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/#comments Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:21:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=5034 I know a lot of people don’t think much of Million Dollar Baby. The screenwriter was a long time Scientologist and bequeathed on us the atrocity called Crash. There’s a grouchy priest who says wise, grouchy things. And shit, if […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/essays/noah-buschel-on-million-dollar-baby/feed/ 4 ABLE DANGER https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/comedy/able-danger-film-review/ Mon, 04 May 2009 20:01:36 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=3130 (Able Danger is now available exclusively, in a new color presentation, through Amazon VOD.) A fast paced, HD-hard noir that leaps headlong into a maze of genre moves, Paul Krik’s post-9/11 paranoiac narrative Able Danger is named for the classified […]

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