(Check our Chris Reed’s Bird movie review. It hits theaters in NYC Friday, November 8 before expanding after that. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) British director Andrea Arnold (Cow) has long explored the ins and outs […]

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The always epic (and, slightly esoteric in terms of attending goes…) Telluride Film Festival kicks off this Labor Day Weekend, running from August 30 through September 2. Sadly, HtN won’t be there this year but the lineup is, as always, incredibly […]

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The 77th Cannes Film Festival just wrapped, premiering many new buzzworthy titles that industry folks and cinephiles are still talking about. Even though Hammer To Nail did not attend the festival this year, we kept track of what our fellow […]

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The 77th Cannes Film Festival concluded today as the Greta Gerwig-fronted jury awarded the Palme d’Or to Sean Baker’s new sex worker comedy, Anora. It is also distributor NEON’s fifth consecutive Palme win following Anatomy of a Fall, Triangle of […]

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The Cannes Film Festival has unveiled the first slate of films for its 77th edition across many sections, from the Competition to Un Certain Regard. It will be held from May 14 through 25. Ahead of the announcement, a few […]

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One of the many distinct voices that broke out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Molly Manning Walker. The British writer-director premiered her pulsating feature debut How To Have Sex which won the top Un Certain Regard prize. With […]

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(The 2023 Tribeca Film Festival ran June 7-18 and HtN had a ton of coverage like M.J. O’Toole’s Boca Chica movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Dominican Republic is a country filled with bright hues and […]

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(Andrea Arnold’s Cow is in select theaters and on VOD now via IFC Films. Chris Reed has this movie review of Cow. Seen it?Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) What does how we treat animals say about homo sapiens? […]

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Nearly six years after her glorious road trip spectacle American Honey, Andrea Arnold returns behind the camera for her first documentary. In Cow, Arnold puts her focus on dairy cows in the English countryside. Several years in the making, it […]

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(Last week, a trio of HtN contributors provided a list of films they were excited to see at DOC NYC, 2021. HtN contributor and self-proclaimed “doc geek” Lauren Wissot has a great list as well, check it out! Like what […]

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