Gregg Araki’s 1997 cult classic Nowhere is the latest Gen X hit to get the 4K restoration treatment. It is an ensemble drama that takes an apocalyptic dive into the lives of Los Angeles-based high schoolers who find themselves in […]

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Before Lost In Translation and Enter The Void, the lives of Americans in Tokyo were examined in Fran Rubel Kuzui’s feature debut Tokyo Pop. Co-written by Kuzui and Lynn Grossman, it premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival to vast […]

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Over a decade before he made waves with his Oscar-winning sensation Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi made his sophomore feature film when he was still in film school at Tokyo University of the Arts. Never before seen in the U.S., […]

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The first feature film is getting the 4K digital restoration treatment. Chocolat is a semi-autobiographical story based on Denis’ childhood growing up in colonial French Africa as the daughter of a civil servant. Before this film, she got her start […]

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Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is known for his elegant, intoxicating dramas that conjure a lot of visual poetry, such as Daughter of the Nile, Flowers of Shanghai, Three Times, and the wuxia stunner The Assassin. Now, his underseen dreamlike […]

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The year 1972 was quite a year for cinema. Ranging from classics such as The Godfather, to Solaris, to Cries and Whispers, those films have been praised by cinephiles from all over. But one underappreciated film from that same year […]

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(Cinephiles across the globe have been blessed with weekly releases of classic films that have been given the 4K treatment. Hammer to Nail is full of cinephiles and thus, we bring you Restoration Cinema, a new area where our staff can […]

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