(The 2024 Tribeca Film Festival runs June 5-16, and as always, we have many boots on the ground. Check out Matt Delman’s Quad Gods movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Jess Jacklin’s ace documentary Quad […]

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Throughout its five-decade run, New Directors/New Films has introduced the works of many prolific filmmakers today, including Steven Spielberg, Wong Kar-Wai, Kelly Reichardt, Denis Villeneuve, Guillermo del Toro, Laura Poitras, Yorgos Lanthimos, and Christopher Nolan – just to name a […]

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Celebrating its 40th year, the Sundance Film Festival attempts to regain its footing and retake its legacy in 2024 after a couple of Covid years and a sad sales market – especially for documentaries. However if you look back on […]

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With well over 100 feature films in this year’s program—close to a third of which are by first-time feature directors–this year’s Sundance Film Festival promises a slate full of a great variety both international and domestic (and that’s not counting […]

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After 10 days of long standing ovations and exciting new titles making their world premieres, the 79th annual Venice Film Festival concluded yesterday with its awards ceremony, which sets the stage for Awards Season. The Julianne Moore-headed jury awarded the […]

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I met with director Jessica Oreck at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, on Sunday, March 10, to discuss her newest film, the narrative feature One Man Dies a Million Times (which I also reviewed). A haunting dramatization of the Siege […]

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Chloe Okuno’s chilling directorial debut Watcher premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, and is now screening at SXSW. In this tale of stalking and gaslighting, she cast modern-day scream queen Maika Monroe (It Follows) as the protagonist who questions […]

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The wait is almost over cinephiles! Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s breathtaking and mystifying Memoria will finally begin its “never-ending” theatrical tour across the US starting April 1st. The film premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival to an ecstatic reception. In his […]

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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival ran January 20-30, all online. The HtN Team provided the usual excellent coverage and, as a bonus to readers, here are each of their top five favorites from the fest.   Bears Rebecca Fonté (@BearsFonte) […]

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Greetings readers, Hammer to Nail editor Don R. Lewis here welcoming you to our annual “curtain raiser” for the Sundance Film Festival. In talking to my staff, I realized that i’m pretty sure no other film site covers more films […]

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