Radu Jude was born in Bucharest in 1977. He studied film directing at the Media University in Bucharest and began his career making shorts, television programs, and music videos. His feature debut, The Happiest Girl in the World (2009), won several international […]

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The documentary Black Zombie marks director Maya Annik Bedward’s feature debut. In the film, Bedward examines how the cinematic zombie has its roots in the Haitian Vodou faith, even though the original term refers to a live person enslaved by a sorcerer, and […]

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In contemporary arthouse cinema, the line between score and sound design is often very blurry, but rarely is it navigated with as much familial intuition as in the work of composer Giorgi Koberidze. Following his work on his brother Alexandre […]

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(The 2026 SXSW Film Festival runs March 12-18 in beautiful Austin, TX. Check out Chris Reed’s Ugly Cry movie review, fresh from the fest. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In her directorial debut feature, Ugly Cry, actor-turned-writer/director Emily Robinson delivers […]

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last year’s passing of Sundance progenitor Robert Redford kind of added a real […]

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Robert Redford changed my life. It was all the way back in 1997 and my friend’s sister heard I was really getting into independent film and was particularly interested in the Sundance Film Festival. Hell, who wasn’t back in 1997? […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s Young Mothers movie review! It opens January 9 in New York and January 16 in Los Angeles before a national rollout. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Belgian filmmaking duo of brothers […]

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(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 Jonathan Marlow checks in to […]

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“Where’s my water? What did I do with the water?” a priest mutters, patting and digging into his pants pockets.  Standing on a fisherman’s dock, wearing a fedora and sunglasses hanging from his shirt pocket, he looks slightly out of […]

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Many actors have added multi-hyphenates to their resumes, dipping into other facets of auteur filmmaking. But no one has done it quite like Crispin Hellion Glover. For that, and many other reasons, he remains one of the most unique artists […]

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