(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Golda, in theaters August 25. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The Ukraine-born, Wisconsin-raised Gold Meir (1898-1978) served as Israel’s first and only female prime minister, taking office in 1969 and […]

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(The 2022 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 all virtually. Check out Bears Rebecca Fonté’s movie review of Watcher. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not pay just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Just like Liam Neeson keeps […]

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DOC NYC 2021 kicks off today, November 10, in and around the IFC Center in the village. The festival is run by Artistic Director Thom Powers who also programs the documentary slate at TIFF. Powers curates his own ‘shortlist’ as […]

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(We 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, our “The Curbside Criterion” […]

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(Roberto Rossellini’s War Trilogy is available from Amazon.) The challenge is to see things with a fresh eye. When a film has been called a “classic” for too long, it comes to us cloaked in a fog of received opinion, […]

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