I watched and reviewed directors Petra Epperlein and Michael Tucker’s fascinating and surprisingly playful documentary The Meaning of Hitler at the 2020 DOC NYC Film Festival. Taking its title from Sebastian Haffner’s eponymous 1978 book, the film explores the legacy […]

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(Luke Holland’s final documentary (he passed away in 2020), Final Account, revisits the past in order to look to the future. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Hitler […]

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A wonderful premiere at Indie Memphis last week lead me to Interview Director Trimiko Melancon  about her feature documentary What Do You Have to Lose?  The film looked at the question Trump posed in his political campaign about electing him […]

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I interviewed, by phone, director Alexis Bloom on Monday, December 3, 2018, to discuss her new documentary Divide and Conquer: The Story of Roger Ailes, (which I also reviewed). The film explores, in great detail, the life, career and legacy […]

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...though Ailes may be dead, his bilious bequest remains. We live in his world, where opinion counts more than facts, and success is measured in terms of conquest.

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No, Ferne Pearlstein's latest film, The Last Laugh, is not a remake of F.W. Murnau's classic 1924 German masterpiece, but rather a documentary about the intersection of Jewish comedy and the Holocaust...

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In Mads Brügger’s The Red Chapel, we get a rare glimpse of the dystopic urban nightmare that is Pyongyang, North Korea. The film has gone out into the world as a Danish film, but it is very much a North Korean one as well, a chilling and fascinating glimpse of that clandestine place.

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(A Film Unfinished is now available on DVD. It opened in New York City on Wednesday, August 18, 2010, at the Film Forum and Lincoln Plaza Cinema. To find out when it’s opening in your town, visit the film’s page […]

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