Eliza Hittman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/eliza-hittman/ What to Watch Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Eliza Hittman Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/eliza-hittman/ 32 32 A Conversation with Scott Cummings (REALM OF SATAN) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/scott-cummings/ Thu, 28 Aug 2025 14:42:39 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=53908

“Hey, this isn’t Ken Burns” – Scott Cummings on Realm of Satan The feature-length directorial debut of veteran editor Scott Cummings, Realm of Satan (reviewed here by Chris Reed), is equal parts visually stunning and (no pun intended) wickedly funny. Not to […]

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]]> HOW TO HAVE SEX Trailer: Molly Manning Walker’s Electrifying Cannes Winner Arrives Soon From MUBI https://www.hammertonail.com/trailer/how-to-have-sex-trailer/ Tue, 10 Oct 2023 15:56:10 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=40584

One of the many distinct voices that broke out at this year’s Cannes Film Festival is Molly Manning Walker. The British writer-director premiered her pulsating feature debut How To Have Sex which won the top Un Certain Regard prize. With […]

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]]> HAMMER TO NAIL’S BEST FILMS OF 2020 https://www.hammertonail.com/best-of/best-films-of-2020/ Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:45:47 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33881

‘Tis the season for year end “Best Of” lists. Here’s Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s and Lead Critic Chris Reed’s… Editor-at-Large Matt Delman’s Top Films of 2020 Though recently A24 has felt more like an e-commerce store than a movie studio due […]

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]]> Never Rarely Sometimes Always https://www.hammertonail.com/latest-reviews/never-rarely-sometimes-always/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 17:37:04 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=32362

(Eliza Hittman’s third feature, Never Rarely Sometimes Always hit VOD April 3 via Focus Features) As her third feature, Eliza Hittman creates an unflinching difficult to watch and completely necessary film about abortion in today’s America. But Never Rarely Sometimes […]

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]]> Mike S. Ryan’s (Very Biased) Favorite Low-Budget Indies Of The Decade https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/ https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/#comments Thu, 27 Feb 2020 20:02:12 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=32368

Mike S. Ryan’s very biased 25 fave low budget American Indies of the ‘10 Decade. 1. Moonlight-Barry Jenkins 2. Meek’s Cutoff/Certain Woman– Kelly Reichardt 3. The Rider-Chloe Zhao 4. The Fits– Anna Rose Holmer 5. It Felt Like Love– Eliza […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/features/mike-s-ryans-best-of-decade/feed/ 1 Mike S. Ryan Digs Into “Beach Rats” https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/mike-s-ryan-on-beach-rats/ Thu, 26 Jan 2017 21:36:56 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=27484 (Premiering at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival, Beach Rats, Eliza Hittman’s second feature is a stunning portrait of a young man’s struggle to understand his emerging sexual identity. Our Mike S. Ryan was ultimately moved by the film but his personal responses to […]

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]]> A Conversation With Leah Meyerhoff, Natalia Dyer and Peter Vack (I BELIEVE IN UNICORNS) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-leah-meyerhoff-natalia-dyer-peter-vack-i-believe-in-unicorns/ Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:09:47 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23092 (I Believe In Unicorns world premiered at the 2014 SXSW Film Festival and just won the Narrative Feature Award at the Atlanta Film Festival. This week, it screens at the Florida Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, and Sarasota Film Festival. […]

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]]> A Conversation With Eliza Hittman (IT FELT LIKE LOVE) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/a-conversation-with-eliza-hittman-it-felt-like-love/ Fri, 21 Mar 2014 19:05:50 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22970 (It Felt Like Love is now available on home video through Lorber Films: DVD, Amazon Instant, iTunes. It world premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was distributed theatrically by Variance Films. Visit the film’s official website for more […]

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]]> SUN VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL ’14: WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/sun-valley-film-festival-14-wrap-up/ Thu, 20 Mar 2014 20:04:31 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22955 “I could see this being the next Park City a few years down the line,” one filmmaker said to me about halfway through the 2014 Sun Valley Film Festival. “Both festivals even have the same first syllable.” It’s ostensibly an […]

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]]> IT FELT LIKE LOVE https://www.hammertonail.com/dvd-releases/it-felt-like-love-film-review/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:15:24 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=22893

Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love lives is an unadorned, gut-wrenching depiction of what it’s like to be young and look around you, and have no idea where you are, who you are with, or how you got here.

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