The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 20:09:02 +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 Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-ones-who-walk-away-from-omelas/ 32 32 COW https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/cow-doc/ Fri, 08 Apr 2022 17:46:48 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=36838

(Andrea Arnold’s Cow is in select theaters and on VOD now via IFC Films. Chris Reed has this movie review of Cow. Seen it?Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What does how we treat animals say about homo sapiens? […]

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]]> A Conversation with Arwen Curry (WORLDS OF URSULA K. LE GUIN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/arwen-curry/ Tue, 20 Nov 2018 21:37:58 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=30457 I met with director Arwen Curry on Saturday, November 10, 2018, at DOC NYC, to discuss her documentary portrait of the late, great Ursula K. Le Guin, entitled The Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin (which I also reviewed). Le […]

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]]> A Follow-Up Interview with Erik Ljung (THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/erik-ljung-interview2/ Mon, 23 Apr 2018 20:09:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=29482 (Erik Ljung’s SXSW 2017-premiering doc The Blood is at the Doorstep is having screenings this spring to commemorate the death of one of the film’s subjects, Dontre Hamilton. Those dates can be found here.) It’s been a year since I first caught Erik […]

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]]> A Conversation With Erik Ljung (THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-erik-ljung-the-blood-is-at-the-doorstep/ Mon, 20 Mar 2017 20:33:46 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27757 I met with director Erik Ljung (pronounced “Young” or, as he put it, “Jung” as in Carl Jung … the “L” is silent), on Sunday, March 12, 2017, at SXSW, to discuss his feature-documentary debut, The Blood Is at the […]

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]]> THE BLOOD IS AT THE DOORSTEP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/the-blood-doorstep-review/ Sat, 18 Mar 2017 17:01:41 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27724

What makes Ljung's movie so effective is the way he addresses the issues of race and police brutality in an even-handed manner that allows all sides to have a voice.

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