(Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Days and Nights in the Forest, which Janus Films is re-releasing starting at Film Forum in NYC tomorrow, February 27, and in LA at the Laemmle Royal on Friday, March 6. Seen it? Join the […]

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Among the lingering ghosts of the cinematheque, our less-than-apt “silent” retronym persists. Nearly everyone refers to early films as such now; no one called them that then. These were moving pictures. Photoplays. As the saying goes in the decades since, […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail 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 crosses the bridge […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail 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 pops in […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s This is Spinal Tap movie review, it’s in theaters now celebrating it’s 41st birthday. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Born in 1947 to legendary comedian, actor, and filmmaker Carl Reiner (1922-2020), Rob […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail 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 stumbles into […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail 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, our new addition to […]

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The less you know, the better. A young man travels from Toulouse to his (fictional) hometown of Saint-Martial to attend the funeral of his former boss, a fondly appreciated baker in the neighbourhood. His widow invites the estranged man to […]

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(We here at Hammer to Nail 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, “The Curbside Criterion” continues […]

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Before breaking the mold of cinema with his sensations L’avventura and Blow-Out, Michelangelo Antonioni examined a rootless life in his 1957 neorealist drama, Il Grido. Restored by The Film Foundation, Cineteca di Bologna, and Compass Film, it follows mechanic Aldo […]

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