(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s A Body to Live In movie review, it hits Blu-ray May 26. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Body is the door to Spirit”   What is a body (and to what extent can […]

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Some filmmakers are known for their documentary works. Others for their narrative films. Still others—the better filmmakers (for me), generally—do not fit comfortably into either category. Or any category whatsoever. Poet / artist / filmmaker Lynne Sachs is one of […]

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Multi-talented Austrian-born / U.S.-based filmmaker (as well as film-editor and cinematographer) G. Anthony Svatek is arguably best-known for his remarkable festival-screened shorts and his collaborative work on the films of others (such as Lynne Sachs and Jem Cohen). Yet that […]

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It is said that you cannot go home again. Literally, you can go home but which version of you goes? Not the one that disappeared. That version is long-gone. [These words are written from the dining room table of Jonathan […]

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(Check out Jonathan Marlow’s Nadja movie review. Michael Almereyda’s 1994 vampire film has been given the 4k restoration treatment and is in theaters now. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Our season of the vampires. Predisposed to […]

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[Assorted quotes included herein, below, from teenage actor Kaison Marlow Eaves. Beyond the nepotism, a talented thespian in his own right (recently, Orpheus in HADESTOWN and Hamlet in, well, HAMLET).] Dreams don’t die. Keep an eye on your dream. Merrily […]

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Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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(The fortieth anniversary of the far-too-little-seen animated epic Tenshi no Tamago (Angel’s Egg) in its highly-anticipated 4K remaster, opening theatrically 19-November-2025. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “Angel or devil? I don’t care. For in front […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films of yesteryear that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week Jonathan Marlow checks in to […]

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(Check out Johnathan Marlow’s movie review of Four Nights of a Dreamer. A new 4K restoration plays September 5-18 at Film Forum in New York before hitting more theaters this fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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