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Interview. Lance Hammer.
daily.greencine.com - 10/15/2008
Interview. Lance Hammer.
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" 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 down of a gauntlet: art thrives best when ...
nypress.com - 10/16/2008
New York Press - ARMOND WHITE - Killer of Dreams
— nypress.com — KILLER OF DREAMS An African-American indie film fantasy made for white liberals By Armond White Ballast Directed... by Lance Hammer at Film Forum, Running Time: 96 min. I m so sick of this shit! sobs Ballast s woebegone, downtrodden black single ... (more) New York Press - ARMOND WHITE - Killer of Dreams

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ballastfilm.com - 10/21/2008
Ballast Screenings
— ballastfilm.com — Q with filmmaker Lance Hammer Friday Nov 7, Saturday Nov 8, and Sunday Nov 9. Screening times... TBD. (more) Ballast Screenings

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hollywood-elsewhere.com - 10/21/2008
"African-American indie film fantasy"
— hollywood-elsewhere.com — Just when I think I've had it with Armond White, he writes something that pulls me back... in. Yesterday morning I read his review ofLance Hammer's Ballast following the announcement of the Gotham Independent Film Awards nominations, four of which... (more) "African-American indie film fantasy"

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Hell On Frisco Bay — ... . It was published a little more than a week ago, and already the pointer post has dropped off the main page (a tribute to the Daily editor David Hudson's unflagging prolificacy). I would have mentioned it here at Hell on Frisco Bay earlier, but I wanted to be able to point to the Frisco Bay venues where the film will be showing starting the Friday. I've now learned that Ballast will open here in Frisco proper at the ...

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