The Tree of Life Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-tree-of-life/ What to Watch Tue, 09 Jan 2024 19:31:25 +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 Tree of Life Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/the-tree-of-life/ 32 32 THE CURBSIDE CRITERION: MIRROR https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/criterion-mirror/ Fri, 16 Jul 2021 19:29:49 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=35192

Does the average moviegoer in 2021 have the eyes, the ears, the temperament, the patience, or even the vulnerability necessary to allow a master like Tarkovsky to take them on a poetic and autobiographical journey? The obvious answer is no. […]

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]]> A Conversation With Khyentse Norbu (VARA: A BLESSING) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-khyentse-norbu-vara-a-blessing/ Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:30:45 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23105 A movie I did is premiering at Tribeca Film Festival this year. [Editor’s note: it’s called Glass Chin, and it’s awesome.] When I heard that Khyentse Norbu’s new movie, Vara: A Blessing, was going to be playing at the festival, […]

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]]> HIDE YOUR SMILING FACES https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/hide-your-smiling-faces-film-review/ Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:00:27 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20553

In Hide Your Smiling Faces, despite the existence of several potentially explosive plot elements, nature and its omnipresence remain front and center throughout.

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]]> SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sundance-2014-michael-tully-wrap-up/ Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22675 As a director who presented a new feature at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, I have found all of the press coming out of Park City lamenting the “meager deals” and somehow linking that to the “lackluster quality” of the […]

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]]> UPSTREAM COLOR https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/upstream-color-film-review-and-interview/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/upstream-color-film-review-and-interview/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:04:26 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20257

(Upstream Color is now available on DVD, Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack, and at Amazon Instant. It world premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January. It opens theatrically in New York on Friday, April 5, and will roll out to […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/upstream-color-film-review-and-interview/feed/ 1 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 SLAMDANCE 2012: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/slamdance-2012-a-roundtable-discussion/ https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/slamdance-2012-a-roundtable-discussion/#comments Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:38:33 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=14959 On Day Six of Slamdance 2012, I got together with the creators of three of the festival’s most interesting and challenging films: Frank Rinaldi (writer/director) and Scott Laidlaw (editor) from Sundowning; Daniel Martinico (director/co-writer) and Hugo Armstrong (actor/co-writer) from OK, […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/slamdance-2012-a-roundtable-discussion/feed/ 1 MELANCHOLIA https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/melancholia-film-review/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/melancholia-film-review/#comments Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:00:53 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=11898

Melancholia is arrestingly rendered from first frame to last, nowhere more so than in its opening montage.

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/melancholia-film-review/feed/ 5 THE TREE OF LIFE: Film Print vs. Digital Print https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-tree-of-life-film-print-vs-digital-print-mike-s-ryan/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-tree-of-life-film-print-vs-digital-print-mike-s-ryan/#comments Wed, 15 Jun 2011 17:12:44 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=11205 (The Tree of Life is now available on DVD and 3-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo + Digital Copy.) The Landmark Sunshine is showing The Tree of Life in several theaters. On their biggest screen (theater #1) it plays digitally; in one of […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/the-tree-of-life-film-print-vs-digital-print-mike-s-ryan/feed/ 13 TREE OF LIFE, THE (Michael Tully) https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-tree-of-life-film-review-michael-tully/ https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/the-tree-of-life-film-review-michael-tully/#comments Mon, 30 May 2011 15:53:14 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=10766

The Tree of Life is, at its core, a sorrowful diary entry, a pained letter of reconciliation from a deeply grieving sibling to his lost brother.

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