The post Treefort Music & Film Fest Wrap-Up appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

The post A Conversation with Nadia Szold and Evan Louison (JOY DE V.) appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

It’s no surprise that Mr. Nance, whose film is marching to the beat of its own drum from its sensational opening credit sequence onward, is a visual and audio artist first, a filmmaker second.

The post OVERSIMPLIFICATION OF HER BEAUTY, AN appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

Kentucker Audley’s Open Five 2 is as sneakily beautiful as it is surprisingly earnest.

The post OPEN FIVE 2 appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

Sawdust City, which owes at least some small debt to Cassavetes, as well as to Hal Ashby’s The Last Detail, rather indulges us in a doomed brotherhood that we’re rooting for even as we’re watching it fall to pieces.

The post SAWDUST CITY appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

As stark and unforgiving as her previous works, Andrea Arnold’s new film finds her pondering the aftermath of a mysterious, multi-pronged trauma for yet another soulful, alienated loner.

The post WUTHERING HEIGHTS appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

With Pariah, a buoyant tale of a young, middle-class New York lesbian’s tough coming-of-age amid the class and cultural proxy battles that simmer within black America, lauded newcomer Dee Rees has made one of 2011's most unlikely and richly welcomed directorial debuts.

The post PARIAH appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

Admittedly low key and light on consequence despite the thievery and black market behavior chronicled, Bad Posture contains worlds of rich texture and character interaction, of, for lack of a better word, community.

The post BAD POSTURE appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

Dark Days has an aesthetic vibe to it that has largely disappeared from documentaries as digital production has become ubiquitous due to the high shooting ratios involved in the genre.

The post DARK DAYS appeared first on Hammer to Nail.

Conor Horgan, a well regarded Irish photographer and commercial director, has made a fourth feature film that makes big-budget, civilization-wide disaster movies like The Book of Eli and 2012 pale in comparison

The post ONE HUNDRED MORNINGS appeared first on Hammer to Nail.