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Source: www.moreover.com --- 14 days ago
[EDITOR'S NOTE: Anthony Kaufman reviewed 'Ballast' at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film opens in limited release this week. ...
Source: daily.greencine.com --- 7 days ago
"Lance Hammer began his filmmaking career working with the art department, designing the architecture of Gotham buildings used in Joel Schumacher's Batman films. His feature film debut as a writer and director might be seen as an aesthetic laying... ... Source: www.indiewire.com --- 13 days ago
by Anthony Kaufman (September 29, 2008) [EDITOR'S NOTE: Anthony Kaufman reviewed "Ballast" at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the film opens in limited release this week.] The cool, wet misty plains of the Mississippi Delta offer little comfort to the three protagonists of art-director Lance Hammer 's bracing feature debut " Ballast ." In fact, the desolate surroundings--yards with broken cars, fields with no harvest, decrepit gas stations--only further reflect their downtrodden condition. But by the time this remarkably sure-footed first film is finished, a slight glimmer of hopefulness arises among the psychological and physical turmoil. ... Source: www.indiewire.com --- 12 days ago
Join filmmaker Lance Hammer at the Apple Store SoHo as he discusses his feature film, " Ballast ," which took prizes for best director and cinematography at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival . Hammer produced, edited, and will self-distribute this dramatic, quietly beautiful film set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives. indieWIRE contributor Anthony Kaufman will moderate the discussion. "Ballast" opens in NYC at Film Forum on October 1. WHEN: Friday, October 3, 7:00 p.m. WHERE: Apple Store, SoHo , 103 Prince Street, NYC COST: Free, No RSVP required. Seats are first come, first serve. Seating is limited. ... Source: www.thecrimson.com --- 9 days ago
Particular landscapes can have a strong emotional impact on artists, and for first-time writer and director Lance Hammer, who screened his debut feature “Ballast” at the Harvard Film Archive on Monday, that locale proved to be the Mississippi Delta. The film, which has won numerous accolades, reflects not only Hammer’s sensitivity to place, but also the authenticity of the characters who inhabit that place. ... Source: blogs.indiewire.com --- 11 days ago
It’s sometimes necessary to discuss a movie without reducing it to a category. Unfortunately, that’s not what critics often do. A film like Lance Hammer’s Ballast deserves to be considered on its own terms, rather than compartmentalized and defined... ... Source: www.firstshowing.net --- 21 days ago
Sony Pictures Classics has recently unveiled the trailer for Lance Hammer's award winning independent film titled Ballast. Like Little Children before it, the trailer for Ballast doesn't feature any actual dialogue, just ambient sounds from the film. It's an impressive and bold way to introduce audiences to it and I commend SPC for their unique marketing efforts on this. Ballast is a drama set in the Mississippi delta, where one man's suicide affects three people's lives. This won the directing and cinematography awards from Sundance earlier this year. Unfortunately I never saw the film but heard a few fairly positive things at the time. It seems like just another good looking indie drama to set your sights on this fall. Ballast currently has a 67% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with reviews saying that the film is "stinging emotional truth and raw grit, stark in its simplicity." While I don't feel like ... ... Source: www.nytimes.com --- 15 days ago
Most movies set out to tell a story. Lance Hammer was after something more amorphous. With “Ballast,” he wanted to depict a tone. ... Source: www.npr.org --- 11 days ago
Austerely beautiful and emotionally candid, Lance Hammer's debut melds plain-spoken American realism with oblique European minimalism. A study in stalemated lives, it's as dread-filled as a Robert Johnson song — though never that direct. ... Source: images.contactmusic.com --- 13 days ago
Set well below the poverty line in rural Mississippi, writer-director-editor Lance Hammer's Ballast is the first film in some time that ... Source: comingsoon.net --- 11 days ago
ComingSoon.net's The Weekend Warrior offers a preview of the new releases opening the weekend of Friday, October 3, a busy week with seven new wide releases and two movies expanding. Topping the wide releases are Disney's Beverly Hills Chihuahua and Sony's Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist starring Michael Cera and Kat Dennings. There's also Fernando Meirelles' thriller Blindness , MGM's comedy How to Lose Friends and Alienate People starring Simon Pegg, David Zucker's comedy An American Carol and Bill Maher's Religulous . This week's "Chosen One" is Lance Hammer's directorial debut and Sundance award-winner Ballast . ... Source: comingsoon.net --- 23 days ago
posted the new trailer for the Lance Hammer drama ... Source: www.variety.com --- 16 days ago
Film Festivals: Director pulled Sundance film from IFC Films -- Do-it-yourself filmmakers will be keeping a close eye on New York's Film Forum this week as Lance Hammer opens his Sundance winner "Ballast." ... Source: daily.greencine.com --- 11 days ago
"There isn't much talk and not a drop of cynicism in Ballast, Lance Hammer's austerely elegant, emotionally unadorned riff on life and death in the Mississippi Delta," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "Shot with a sure... ... Source: newsblaze.com --- 29 days ago
The stinging emotional truth and raw grit of a movie like Lance Hammer's Ballast, is a little like a spare organic feast in a sea of contrived, cookie cutter, junk food Hollywood merchandised fare. ...
Source: www.showbizspy.com --- 28 days ago
Immigration drama THE VISITOR has been named the top film at this year's (08) Deauville American Film Festival in France. The arthouse movie, starring Richard Jenkins as a downtrodden widower who befriends an illegal immigrant couple in New York, claimed the event's Best Film award on Sunday (14Sep08). The runner-up Jury Prize went to Lance Hammer's drama Ballast, while pedophile drama Gardens of The Night won the International Critics Award. ... Find more results for Lance Hammer on RSSMicro.com |
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Religulous [ watch the trailer & clips ] (Oct. 1) Bill Maher , who hosts a controversial HBO news and debate show called Real Time , is now taking his act to the big screen. He's taken a page out of Michael Moore's book by doing a documentary with no pretense of being objective. He's long held the belief that religion in general is a completely ridiculous concept, and he's incensed a lot of religious leaders in the process, as they tend to be very, very touchy. Maher reins in his tendencies toward smug self-satisfaction (or maybe director Larry Charles reined it in for him), and this film is often compelling viewing - you just don't see these arguments anywhere else, and you never see them brought up in honest discussion with the faithfully devoted. Maher asserts that 16% of the American populace does not wish to be affiliated with any organized religion, and that many people can no longer be ignored. Buy tickets on Fandango! Ballast [ watch the trailer ] A unique Sundance-award-winning showcase of powerful cinematography from first time writer/director Lance Hammer , focusing on a mother in the rural Mississippi Delta who tries desperately to keep her 12-year-old son away from the drugs and violence that threaten to consume him after a suicide rocks their family. She's forced to live in the home of a man with whom she fights bitterly, but eventually they have to learn how to move forward with their lives redefined. Buy tickets on Fan ...
Visiting Reading remained undefeated on Tuesday, edging the Lexington High boys cross country team in a meet at the Lincoln Street playground. Prior to the race against the Rockets, LHS senior captain Steve McKenna commanded the Lexington team before its tri-meet against Belmont and Wakefield on Thursday, Oct. 2 that they had to "put the Hammer down" on the opposition. His team responded in equally commanding form to their captain’s speech, capturing the first three places (as well as fifth through seventh) against Belmont to ensure one victory, 17-48. Lexington accompanied the convincing win with a sweep of Wakefield, 15-50. Junior Andrew Herring extended his undefeated season record to five meets, taking first in an impressive time of 17:06. He was followed by senior captain Steve Leung and junior John Bernstein, in respective times of 17:24 and 17:26. Herring, Leung and Bernstein ran a great race together, staying as a group for the first two miles. The latter two remained together up to the finish line, holding their positions and escaping a Belmont runner that nearly caught them. Lexington's scoring was completed by junior Lance Claflin (17:55) and McKenna (17:59). Senior Chris Waters finished sixth for Lexington in his varsity debut, in a time of 18:08. Junior Alex Lockwood (18:45) narrowly defeated freshman Derek Leung (18:46) in the final sprint. They were followed by sophomore Cam Ulmer (18:55) and freshman Luke O'Co ...
Success Stories: Happy-Go-Lucky (Miramax) Religulous (Lionsgate) Ballast (Alluvial/Required Viewing) One Brit edged out another, as RockNRolla , Guy Ritchie's zippy yet utterfully forgettable "return to form" Brit crime flick, narrowly claimed the #1 spot among limited releases, according to estimates compiled by Box Office Mojo . To my mind, though, Mike Leigh's much riskier Happy-Go-Lucky ($20,000 per screen at four theaters) is the surprise winner in the independent world, with a strking lead performance by Sally Hawkins as a preternaturally cheerful schoolteacher who sounds as though she could set teeth on edge as easily as she warms hearts. I'm curious but wary. The film will expand wider on Friday; if you've seen it, is it a tonic for difficult times or a passive aggressive form of torture? Speaking of possibly unpleasant experiences, I'm also surprised by the excellent returns for Larry Charles' Religulous . The doc has earned more than $6.7 million in just two weeks; A. J. Schnack of All these wonderful things points out that it's the first doc since Michael Moore's Sicko "to score back-to-back multi-million dollar weekends." I grew tired of Bill Maher's smirking, self-righteous ridicule years ago, but perhaps I'm in the minority. If you've seen the doc, are you a big fan of Maher? Or is it the subject matter that made it a must-see? Lance Hammer's Ballast deserves a big hand. Not only did Hammer write and direct a highl ...