Nathan Silver’s Carol & Joy is a 38-minute documentary portrait of Academy Award-nominated actress Carol Kane and her 98-year-old mother Joy, a music teacher who still gives lessons and plays piano in their Upper West Side apartment. Shot on 16mm by cinematographers […]

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After working together on the endearing comedy Between the Temples, director Nathan Silver captures the bond between the star of that film, the legendary Carol Kane, and her mother, music teacher Joy Kane, in a short documentary that is sure […]

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After breaking moviegoers’ hearts with his Oscar-winning melodrama The Whale, Darren Aronofsky returns to his New York roots for his ninth feature. Caught Stealing stars Austin Butler as a bartender and former baseball player living in the East Village during […]

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Nathan Silver is a New York City based filmmaker who has been working as a writer/director since 2009. His latest project Between The Temples is in theaters this weekend and is not only an excellent film, it is essential Jewish […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Between the Temples movie review, in theaters August 23. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) A lyrical ode to love in all its mystifying wonder, director Nathan Silver’s Between the Temples […]

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Summer is approaching. We at Hammer To Nail have dug deep beyond the buzzworthy studio titles to present an in-depth look at what should be on your radar this season. From festival hits, to microbudget marvels, to horror that gets […]

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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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More buddy comedy than thriller, Audiard’s latest flips Western genre conventions on its head.

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I met with director Janicza Bravo on Friday, May 5, 2017, at the Maryland Film Festival, where we discussed her first feature, the experimental narrative Lemon, which premiered at Sundance (and was reviewed at SXSW by our very own Don […]

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