New on Hammer to Nail

• LOVE
  Its soundtrack devoid of just about everything but the actors’ voices and the piano music they occasionally listen to, and its space confined almost totally to the couple’s spacious flat, Love feels like a purposefully clean movie; an orderly ordeal.[...]
• Cannes 2012 Dispatch #4: Weekend At Joe’s
  Extra! Extra! Some fresh disappointments in the main competition at Cannes: Cristian Mungiu’s long-awaited Beyond the Hills—save for a single, riveting opening shot—proved to be anticlimactic and rather shallow in its indictment of organized religion, while John Hillcoat 1930s bootlegers’ drama Lawless relied too heavily on administering a string of violent outbursts rather than on [...][...]
• A Conversation With Alex Ross Perry (THE COLOR WHEEL)
  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, 2012 at BAM)—we decided to resurrect the ol’ HammeredToNail concept and drink some drunk sauce [...][...]