I ran into producer Mike Ryan, whose
Choke is screening here at Sundance, and he told me about a new website he's involved with.
Hammer to Nail has just launched, with Ryan and, soon, Mike Tully filing film reviews from Sundance -- reviews that are intended to be provocative conversation-starters that eschew the niceties that sometimes inhibit writing from not only the MSM but also the blogosphere. (Last year, Ryan forwarded me at Sundance
his politically-outraged comments about Grace is Gone, which I posted on the blog.) He launches the new site with a review of the Sundance doc
The Recruiter (
American Soldier) that takes the film to task for its embrace of what Ryan calls "Centerism", which "holds as its main principals that in order for a message or position to be relevent and effective it needs to not be seen as coming from one side or the other." The question he poses in the review: "What is the value of making a film which could be used as a US Army promotional industrial recruiting tool?" Read the whole thing at the link above.
# posted by Scott Macaulay @ 1/19/2008 07:17:00 PM
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