Every new film by Kelly Reichardt is certainly one to look forward to. Her next feature is one of four movies starring Josh O’Connor this year. The Mastermind, written and directed by Reichardt, stars O’Connor as an unemployed husband and […]

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German screenwriter Moritz Binder co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film September 5 together with director Tim Fehlbaum and American dialoguist Alex David. I reviewed the movie last fall and put it in my Top 10 for the year. In […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of September 5. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) On September 5, 1972, eight operatives from Black September, a militant group loosely affiliated with the Palestinian organization Fatah, infiltrated the […]

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Editors Note: Past Lives opens theatrically this weekend in New York and Los Angeles, and will expand from there. Below is Matt Delman’s review from the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. (The 2023 Sundance Film Festival takes place January 19-29 in and […]

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(Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Showing Up, the latest collab between filmmaker Kelly Reichardt and actress Michelle Williams. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The films of Kelly Reichardt are thoughtful cinematic dramas that […]

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Writer-director Celine Song’s feature debut Past Lives was one of the late additions to this year’s Sundance Film Festival, where audiences were unexpectedly floored by its romantic storytelling and swooning over the chemistry between its two leads Greta Lee and […]

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Three years after her 19th Century bromance First Cow, Kelly Reichardt is back with a new Portland-set drama from A24. Showing Up stars Michelle Williams as a struggling sculptor preparing for a major art show while nursing a wounded pigeon […]

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(Indie film stalwart Dan Mirvish is back with the kooky 18 1/2. The film is currently making the festival rounds. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Director […]

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Reichardt has been lambasted before for her deliberate pacing, but here the details build a sense of momentum and progress. It’s easy to be sucked into a world that seems so distant, despite being in our own backyard only two hundred years ago.

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I recently spoke with director Kelly Reichardt by phone about her new film First Cow, which premiered at the 2019 Telluride Film Festival (our Matt Delman reviewed it following the subsequent New York Film Festival) and is now finally rolling […]

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