Richard Linklater’s career has been marked by great experimentation and variety, which makes him the perfect candidate to dramatize one of the seminal moments in film history: the making of Jean-Luc Godard’s French New Wave masterpiece Breathless. Starring a mostly […]

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(The Middleburg Film Festival ran October 16-19 in Middleburg, Virginia, and lead critic Chris Reed is on the ground doing coverage for us. Check out his Nouvelle Vague movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) Franco-Swiss filmmaker […]

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Richard Linklater has been killing it on the festival circuit this year! Following the Berlinale premiere of his Lorenz Hart biopic Blue Moon (arriving October 17), he headed to the Cannes Film Festival with his ambitious retelling of the making […]

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(Check out Johnathan Marlow’s movie review of Four Nights of a Dreamer. A new 4K restoration plays September 5-18 at Film Forum in New York before hitting more theaters this fall. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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(The Museum of Moving Image’s First Look Festival runs March 12-16. Chrck out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of The Fifth Shot of La Jetée. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) “We’re entertaining ghosts now.” One year to […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we 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 wanders the […]

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DOC NYC, known as “America’s largest documentary festival,” is back for its 14th iteration, running November 8-26. The 2023 festival presents more than 105 feature-length documentaries… among over 200 short films and dozens of events, with filmmakers expected in person […]

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With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (which has a fantastic 4k restoration, plays September 24-October 7 at NYC’s Film Forum) has been analyzed by critics, directors, writers, academics, and cinephiles across the world. Hammer to Nail contributors Jonathan Marlow and Ray Lobo share […]

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