(Here at Hammer to Nail, we are all about true independent cinema. But we also have to tip our hat to the great films that continue to inspire filmmakers and cinephiles alike. This week, Brad Cook wanders around with the […]

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(Check out M.J. O’Toole’s Gasoline Rainbow movie review. The film is in select theaters now before hitting Mubi on May 31. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) While many Americans worry about the future, five teens from […]

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Radu Jude is a writer and director hailing from Romania. He attended the Media University of Bucharest. Soon after graduating, Radu worked as an assistant director on the 2002 film Amen and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. From there Radu […]

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Moments: a conversation with Robert Downey Sr. (a prince) — Jonathan Marlow On the occasion of Truth and Soul, Inc., a 2014 retrospective in Los Angeles, Jonathan Marlow telephoned the extraordinary filmmaker Robert Downey Sr. in order to ramble on […]

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(Barbara Loden’s singular film Wanda is now playing as part of BAM Cinema‘s Method on Film series. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Amongst the pantheon of aimless, nihilistic late-‘60s / early-‘70s made-in-the-U.S.-of-A. cinema is its arguable pinnacle, the […]

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(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival ran March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of X. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Ti West returns with a horror film for the ages. On March 13, X […]

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THE LONG DUMB ROAD resembles an update of Albert Brooks’ 1985 masterpiece, Lost in America. Only instead of yuppies attempting to emulate Easy Rider, we follow a 19-year-old boy who wants to experience “the real America” before matriculating to college and manhood.

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The classic rebel film of the late 60's gets the Criterion Blu-ray treatment

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3 Backyards is a truly ambitious and inventive work that speaks not only through acting and plot, but through Eric Mendelsohn’s savvy directorial control of music, lensing and pacing.

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