Over the past three weeks, Film Festival Today ran seven reviews of mine. Here they are:
- The Apparition
- The Captain
- The Happytime Murders
- Juliet, Naked
- Madeline’s Madeline
- Searching
- The Wife
Enjoy!
End-of-Summer @hammertonail Documentary Coverage
Over the course of August and into the start of September, Hammer to Nail ran 5 reviews of mine of new documentary films, and 2 interviews with documentary directors. Here are the links::
- América review
- Calling All Earthlings review
- Crime + Punishment interview with director Stephen Maing
- Crime + Punishment review
- Ingrid interview with director Morrisa Maltz
- The Silence of Others review
- Three Identical Strangers review
Enjoy!
New Bonus Episode of @fogoftruth: Filmmaker Steve James (from AFI DOCS)
l-r: Christopher Llewellyn Reed, Summre Garber, Steve James and Bart Weiss
Our first pre-Season 4 bonus episode is now up, and you can listen to it on iTunes, SoundCloud and/or Stitcher, as well as on our Episodes page. In it, we feature a group interview we conducted with filmmaker Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail) at AFI DOCS this past June. Enjoy!
End-of-Summer @hammertonail Narrative Fiction Coverage
Over the course of August, Hammer to Nail has run 5 reviews of mine of new narrative fiction films. Here are the links::
- Nico, 1988 review
- Night Comes On review
- Summer of 84 review
- Support the Girls review
- The Swan review
Enjoy!
4 Reviews @filmfesttoday: “BlacKkKlansman,” “Christopher Robin,” “Crazy Rich Asians” and “The Meg”
Over the past two weeks, Film Festival Today ran four reviews of mine. Here they are:
Enjoy!
3 Reviews @filmfesttoday: “Alone in the Game,” “Ant-Man and the Wasp” and “Skyscraper”
I took some time off in July, but Film Festival Today still ran three reviews of mine. Here they are:
Enjoy!
2 Reviews – of “Among Wolves,” “The King” – plus 1 interview, with Kimberly Reed of “Dark Money,” all @hammertonail
Hammer to Nail ran three new pieces of mine in the past two weeks: 2 reviews plus 1 interview, from AFI DOCS 2018, with director Kimberly Reed (about her Dark Money). Here are the links::
Enjoy!
Episode 306 of @fogoftruth: “The Last Laugh” and “209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris 10ème – The Neighbors”
Our sixth (and final) episode of Season 3 (#306) is now up, and you can listen to it on iTunes, SoundCloud and/or Stitcher (and anywhere podcasts are found), as well as on our episodes page. This week, we look at Holocaust documentaries as we review The Last Laugh, and Bart interviews Ruth Zylberman of 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris 10ème – The Neighbors. As always, you can find the episode on our “episodes” page, on iTunes, SoundCloud and Stitcher, and anywhere podcasts are generally available. Enjoy!
This episode concludes our third season. That makes 18 episodes so far: 3 seasons x 6 episodes each + 4 bonus episodes. Stay tuned for a few more bonus episodes, starting towards the end of August/beginning of September, with Season 4 to follow soon thereafter. Until then …
Episode 305 of @fogoftruth: “The King” and “Cuba and the Cameraman”
Our fifth episode of Season 3 (#305) is now up, and you can listen to it on iTunes, SoundCloud and/or Stitcher (and anywhere podcasts are found), as well as on our episodes page. This week, we cover documentary films that at first appear to be about a bunch of wildly different ideas but then manage to tie it all together under coherent and satisfying themes. We have a review of The King, followed by an interview between Bart and the director of Cuba and the Cameraman. Enjoy!
4 Reviews – of “Curvature,” “Hal,” “Leave No Trace” and “Rock in the Red Zone” – plus 1 Interview, with Sam Pollard, all @hammertonail
Hammer to Nail ran five pieces of mine in the last two weeks: 4 additional reviews plus 1 interview from the 2018 Annapolis Film Festival, with director Samuel D. Pollard (about two films he had playing there: ACORN and the Firestorm and Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me). Here are the links::
- Curvature review
- Hal review
- Leave No Trace review
- Rock in the Red Zone review
- Annapolis Film Festival interview with Sam Pollard, of ACORN and the Firestorm and Sammy Davis, Jr.: I’ve Gotta Be Me
Enjoy!
