Winner of the Golden Leopard at last year’s Locarno International Film Festival, writer-director Sho Miyake’s Two Seasons, Two Strangers is a tender, tranquil drama that explores the burgeoning bonds between two pairs of introverted people in two different segments. Based […]

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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 Rental Family movie review! Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In Rental […]

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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 Brad Cook pops in […]

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Following the global success of his Oscar-winning Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi ventured to a rural village just outside Tokyo to film – in secret – his newest drama. Evil Does Not Exist is considered a return to the director’s […]

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“The night has countless faces. And there is a man who peers into them one by one.” Manga comes to life in a surprise new short from Japanese auteur Takashi Miike. Working at a tireless pace, the filmmaker behind Audition, […]

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When Ryuichi Sakamoto passed away from cancer in March 2023 at age 71, the world lost one of its greatest musicians. Now, his legacy is captured in a stunning new documentary directed by his son, Neo Sora. The iconic, Oscar-winning […]

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Over a decade before he made waves with his Oscar-winning sensation Drive My Car, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi made his sophomore feature film when he was still in film school at Tokyo University of the Arts. Never before seen in the U.S., […]

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(Japan‘s Official Oscar Entry, True Mothers from Director Naomi Kawase, Arrives on DVD/Digital on 6/8, Exclusively from Film Movement. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) There are […]

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