Posts tagged ‘Film schools’

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  Pick of the Week Medium Cool (Criterion) — Haskell Wexler’s groundbreaking hybrid drama from 1969 has finally gotten the Criterion treatment. If you haven’t seen this film, rectify that situation immediately. Available on DVD and Blu-ray. Recommended Last Kind Words (Image Entertainment) — Filmmaker Kevin Barker follows up his excellent documentary The Family Jams with [...][...]
• SUMMER ’13 SHORT FILM CONTEST — SUBMISSIONS OPEN
  ***SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN FOR OUR SUMMER ’13 CONTEST*** Since 2008, we at Hammer to Nail have committed ourselves to spreading love for all the great and often underseen films made on a dime and fueled by a love for cinema. Until this year we have focused on films on the festival circuit, in theaters, [...][...]
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  Pick of the Week Fourplay (TLA Video) — No one is making films like Kyle Henry’s Fourplay these days. Its sunny, hyperreal tone and very American characters thrust into unabashedly sexual situations are reminiscent of the youth-oriented comedies of the post-hippie, pre-AIDS late-‘70s and early ‘80s—think Eating Raoul and Kentucky Fried Movie, or the TV [...][...]