Premiering in the World Dramatic Competition at Sundance 2025, Luz is an ambitious exploration of reality, connection and redemption from director Flora Lau (Bends). Set across Chongqing, Hong Kong and Paris, the film follows Wei (Xiao Dong Guo), a reformed […]

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Gaspar Noé has been busy recently. The controversial French-Argentine filmmaker has his next film Vortex opening May 6 from Utopia. But that same day also marks the release of his long-awaited experimental and hallucinatory Lux Æterna. This 50-minute film, which […]

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After exploring the reckless lives of youth in Enter The Void, Love, and Climax, Gaspar Noé returns to devastate us with a look at the inevitability of getting old and dying. In Vortex, which had its world premiere at last […]

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(The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. Here, M.J. O’Toole gives a film review of Gaspar Noé’s Vortex. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per […]

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The 2021 New York Film Festival (or NYFF) is in its 59th iteration and runs September 24-October 10. There are 5 sections in the program: the Main Slate (with 32 features), Currents (15 features and 8 shorts programs), Spotlight (9 […]

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If there’s one panel that really catalyzed my mind this virtual festival year it was DOK Leipzig’s “Naked Truths – Intimacy in Documentary Film” discussion. Expertly led by moderators Djamila Grandits (who seemed to be posing questions straight from my […]

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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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More buddy comedy than thriller, Audiard’s latest flips Western genre conventions on its head.

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