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FUNNY FACE INTERROGATES THE REVENGE GENRE

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 08 Apr 2021 19:07:12 +0000

(Tim Sutton’s 5th film Funny Face is available now via Gravitas Ventures. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Tim Sutton’s first film, Pavilion was an exciting […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s (Very Biased) Favorite Low-Budget Indies Of The Decade

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:02:12 +0000

Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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THE SISTERS BROTHERS

Matt Delman — Tue, 18 Sep 2018 19:53:15 +0000

More buddy comedy than thriller, Audiard’s latest flips Western genre conventions on its head.

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DARK NIGHT

Christopher Reed — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:47:54 +0000

An elliptical narrative shot, in part, like a documentary, using non-actors, Dark Night journeys into the tormented mind of a killer...

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Mike S. Ryan Goes Deep Into the “Dark Night”

Mike S. Ryan — Fri, 24 Jun 2016 13:20:49 +0000

Sundance theaters are spread out over a wide valley and they are linked by a bus shuttle service that runs festivalgoers between the various theaters. Often these busses are packed with people who just got out of a theater and […]

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Mike S. Ryan’s Sundance 2016 Wrap-Up

Mike S. Ryan — Tue, 09 Feb 2016 22:31:06 +0000

Sundance 2016, the post collapse world has begun with a new set of questions. Sundance 2008 was the last of the “Sundance go- go years.” Hamlet 2 was the top purchase that year for $12 million but there were also […]

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SUNDANCE ’14: TULLY’S WRAP-UP

Michael Tully — Sat, 01 Feb 2014 18:44:17 +0000

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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SUNDANCE ’14: MIKE S. RYAN’S WRAP-UP

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 16:02:48 +0000

I think Eric Kohn got it right in his Indiewire wrap-up: the Sundance Film Festival is so vast that it would be wrong to call this year’s program mediocre just because there wasn’t one breakout hit like Beasts or Fruitvale. […]

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PAVILION

Mike S. Ryan — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:00:15 +0000

This is a world in which you, the viewer, are forced to look at the mundane in an immediate and raw way—not unlike how reality was like before we were overwhelmed by cell phones, ‘social media,’ and crafty corporate ‘genius’ markateers who are leading us into the bold, new, insidious frontier of consumerism redefined.

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