One of the biggest revelations of this year’s Sundance Film Festival is Eva Victor’s Sorry, Baby. Winner of the festival’s Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award, the writer-director stars as an academic reeling from a traumatic event in her life. Told in […]

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Imagine this peculiar back-and-forth as mere embellishment. There is a far superior interview—in Interview, no less—with the great Charles Burnett and Barry Jenkins “You’re Either a Storyteller or a Liar” Go read that. Then, if interest persists, you can return […]

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One of the most captivating, artistically groundbreaking films to come out of Sundance this year is writer-director Raven Jackson’s All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt. Heavily inspired by Andrei Tarkovsky, Carlos Reygadas, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, and Julie Dash, the A24 drama […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival has just announced the 2023 lineup for its Platform programme, featuring 10 films making their world premieres. These films were made in 12 countries across 3 continents. The opening film in this category will be […]

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Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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The nominations for the 2022 Gotham Awards have been revealed. The nominations in 12 categories recognize independent/arthouse films and breakout TV from this year. The ceremony will be held at Cipriani Wall Street in Manhattan on Monday, November 28. Angelica […]

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One film that took Cannes by surprise this year was Scottish writer-director Charlotte Wells’ emotional feature debut, Aftersun. Her “emotionally autobiographical” film stars Paul Mescal and newcomer Frankie Corio as a father and daughter Calum and Sophie who take a […]

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The Toronto International Film Festival (or TIFF) was founded in 1976 and since then has become one of the world’s premier showcases of quality films of all kinds, be they large event movies, microbudget flicks, and everything in between. Given […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we’re 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 ,Brad Cook enters the […]

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(Derrick Perry’s debut feature film Pink Opaque is available now to buy or rent on all digital platforms. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) The struggle […]

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