(The 2024 Middleburg Film Festival ran October 17-20. Check our Chris Reed’s No Other Land movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In the recent Edward Berger film Conclave, the character played by Ralph Fiennes delivers a speech in […]

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(Mary Wharton’s doc Jimmy Carter: Rock & Roll President is available now on VOD via greenwich Entertainment. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Pity our nation’s […]

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(SFFIlm’s 2022 Doc Storuies program runs November 3-8. Check out Jonathan Marlow’s movie review of Jerry Brown: The Disrupter, which premiere’s there Thursday, November 3. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) In an era when politicians […]

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I met with directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West on Thursday, April 26, 2018, in Washington, DC, to discuss RBG, their documentary (which I also reviewed) about the great feminist jurist Ruth Bader Ginsburg who, in 1993, became only the […]

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I recently spoke by phone with famed documentarian Barbara Kopple (Miss Sharon Jones!) about her new film, Desert One (which I also reviewed), which brings us back to 1980 and President Jimmy Carter’s failed attempt to free the Iranian-held U.S. […]

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(Renowned director Barbara Kopple’s latest film, Desert One drops online Friday, August 21 via Greenwich Entertainment. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) For 444 days, from […]

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...while this stirring film may have little chance of persuading those who already hate her to change their minds, it is otherwise a masterful homage to her life and work, perfect for those who already love her, as well as for those willing to listen.

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(Cropsey is now available on DVD through Breaking Glass Pictures. It opened theatrically in New York City on Friday, June 4, 2010, at the IFC Center, before expanding to more cities in the following weeks and months. It was also […]

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