The Tribeca Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in New York City this spring! Taking place June 3-14, the festival will showcase 118 feature films, including 103 world premieres, alongside 86 shorts. Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 3 is the […]

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One of the most perplexing, divisive, yet bold and original films of the last year was Francis Ford Coppola’s Megalopolis. The legendary director, who had tried getting the film made for 30 years, funded the $125 million to make it […]

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As the 77th Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, Francis Ford Coppola has just increased our anticipation with an epic new teaser for his passion piece Megalopolis. His first film in over a decade since 2011’s Twixt, Coppola (a two-time […]

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It’s interesting to me that the film was directed by a woman, Liina Trishkina, given its relentless focus on the male protagonist, with the female characters barely sketched out.

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That keen eye permeates all of the film, in fact, from the haunting opening shot of a little boy alone on a playground in an abandoned drive-in movie theater to images of sparse Texas landscapes to a vision of New York that eschews iconographic shots of famous landmarks, save for a skyline shot or two.

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Had I seen it when I was young, I probably would have been fascinated by Kael’s observation, wondering, with the idle intellectualism common at that age, how one might deal with a fascist film when one is not a fascist themselves.

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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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In Barney’s Version, Paul Giamatti plays another gruff, obnoxious, inexplicably lovable schlub.

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