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LOVE, BROOKLYN

M.J. O'Toole — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 20:39:03 +0000

(The 2025 Sundance Film Festival ran January 23- February 2 in and around gorgeous Park City, UT. HtN has you covered for all the hottest titles like M.J. O’Toole’s Love, Brooklyn movie review. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) […]

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HtN’s 20 Most Anticipated Films at Sundance 2025

The Editorial Staff — Thu, 23 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000

There’s so much uncertainty in the world and strangely, as it always somehow seems to, the Sundance Film Festival reflects that. On a surface level, there’s the fact that no one knows where the 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be […]

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EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE

Melanie Addington — Sat, 04 Mar 2023 18:21:38 +0000

(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Melanie Addington’s movie review of Everything Everywhere All At Once. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) When people who love movies make a movie, it […]

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A SELECTION OF 2023 SUNDANCE SHORTS

Melanie Addington — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 19:05:28 +0000

While several great world cinema shorts premiered last week at Sundance including now 2023 Oscar-nominated The Flying Sailor, Sundance captured the American zeitgeist of what it means to survive, and sometimes thrive, in today’s complicated and torn nation. At the […]

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ASKING FOR IT

Bears Rebecca Fonte — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 18:41:16 +0000

(The 2021 Tribeca Film Festival opened Wednesday, Jun 9, 2021 and ran all the way through Sunday, Jun 20. hammer to Nail has you covered with tons of reviews and coverage, coming your way! Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? […]

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ON THE FRINGE, PART THREE: ALICE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE (1974)

Wed, 21 Mar 2018 22:18:20 +0000

Something was happening in the American cinema starting in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s. Among other progressions in societal mores, technology and legalities, this decade+ could arguably be considered a Golden Age of courageous truth-telling films that mine […]

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2018 Oscar-Nominated Short Films

Christopher Reed — Fri, 23 Feb 2018 21:13:13 +0000

Every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences nominates a total of 15 short films in 3 categories (5 per category): animated and live-action (which share the same set of eligibility requirements), and documentary (with its own requirements, […]

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FACES PLACES

Christopher Reed — Thu, 04 Jan 2018 17:47:08 +0000

Perhaps the greatest joy of this charming documentary, beyond that of seeing the happiness of the movie's subjects, is the vibrant exchange of ideas between Varda and JR, over two generations apart.

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13th

Christopher Reed — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 17:42:58 +0000

Had I seen this film before the end of the year, I would have included it among my Top 10 documentaries, for sure...

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TIME IS LUCK (or, “a catechism of non-attachment”)

Evan Louison — Thu, 04 Feb 2016 22:06:24 +0000

(For those lucky enough to live in or near New York the amazing BAMcinématek is offering up Heat & Vice: The Films of Michael Mann from February 5-16. Our Evan Louison drops some serious insight on a filmmaker who is clearly one […]

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