Oscar-winning director Michel Hazanavicius is definitely someone with eclectic taste. Unlike his silent film-era Best Picture winner The Artist, his newest venture brings the noise and carnage. Final Cut was introduced to audiences a few years ago when it opened […]

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Costa Rican-Swedish filmmaker Nathalie Álvarez Mesén brought her feature debut, Clara Sola, to the 2021 Cannes Film Festival where it premiered in the Directors’ Fortnight section. Its applauded response would eventually help bring it to become Costa Rica’s entry for […]

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Croatian writer/director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović feature debut, Murina, is a coming-of-age tale that follows a teenage girl trying to break free of her domineering family life as she finds hope in the form of an attraction to a much older […]

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Writer/director Clio Barnard premiered her fourth feature, Ali & Ava, at last year’s Cannes Film Festival to a warm, widely positive reception for its performances from leads Adeel Akhtar and Claire Rushbrook, as well as its optimistic atmosphere. Exploring a […]

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One of the most visually stimulating films on the festival circuit last year was Neptune Frost. Multi-disciplinary artist Saul Williams and his partner, Rwandan-born artist Anisia Uzeyman, co-directed the Afrofuturist musical that premiered at last year’s Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, as […]

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Portuguese director Miguel Gomes (Tabu; Arabian Nights) is known for making mainly nature-set films that dive into the absurd and ethereal. His newest project, The Tsugua Diaries which he co-directed with French filmmaker Maureen Fazendeiro, is a sun-soaked look at […]

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After exploring the reckless lives of youth in Enter The Void, Love, and Climax, Gaspar Noé returns to devastate us with a look at the inevitability of getting old and dying. In Vortex, which had its world premiere at last […]

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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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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of director Juho Kuosmanen’s Compartment No. 6. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) An adaptation of Finnish author Rosa Liksom’s […]

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