The Exiles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-exiles/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:56:58 +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 Exiles Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-exiles/ 32 32 ON THE FRINGE, PART SEVEN: SHOTGUN STORIES (2007) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-7/ Wed, 18 Apr 2018 20:05:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29448 Jeff Nichols’ award-winning directorial debut Shotgun Stories is a flawless film. This quality is a crucial distinction to make in discussing a film as part of my continuing “On theFringe” series, as this factor sets the movie apart from its (predecessor) compatriot pictures […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART FOUR: KILLER OF SHEEP (1978) https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/on-the-fringe-4/ Wed, 28 Mar 2018 20:49:20 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29303 Accepting his long overdue honorary Oscar at the Academy Awards this year, the soft-spoken, wide-eyed filmmaker Charles Burnett first thanked all his friends and supporters present for their support, particularly those who were there back in the days when he “didn’t have […]

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]]> ON THE FRINGE, PART TWO: THE EXILES (1961) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/on-the-fringe-2/ Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:26:11 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29144 In his seminal 1973 book The Country and the City, Raymond Williams lays out the great divide that he suggests exists between the concepts of “Natur[al]” and “native.” With apologies to Williams, a principle progenitor of “cultural studies” as an academic […]

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]]> 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 Arnaud Desplechin (JIMMY P: PSYCHOTHERAPY OF A PLAINS INDIAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-arnaud-desplechin-jimmy-p-psychotherapy-of-a-plains-indian/ Fri, 14 Feb 2014 16:57:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22778 (Jimmy P: Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian opens theatrically at The Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center at the Film Society Of Lincoln Center on Friday, February 14th, 2014 and on VOD on February 20th, 2014 on various platforms. Visit the […]

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]]> DVD RELEASES 2009/11/17 https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/dvd-releases-20091117/ Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:22:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=1356 Well, whaddya know, Thanksgiving’s come early this year, as today brings us the home video release of two of the best new American films of 2009. One is a fiction comedy that plays like a documentary, and the other is […]

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(Distributed by Oscilloscope Pictures and Milestone Films, The Exiles is now available on DVD. Visit the film’s official website to watch a trailer and learn more.) Down and out on the margins of post-war, downtown Los Angeles, the subjects of […]

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