Lotfy Nathan Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lotfy-nathan/ What to Watch Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:51:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.hammertonail.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-logo02-1-32x32.png Lotfy Nathan Archives - Hammer to Nail https://www.hammertonail.com/tag/lotfy-nathan/ 32 32 A Conversation with Lotfy Nathan (THE CARPENTER’S SON) https://www.hammertonail.com/interviews/lotfy-nathan/ Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:51:25 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=54619

The Carpenter’s Son reimagines the untold adolescence of Jesus in Roman-era Egypt through the lens of supernatural horror. Writer-director Lotfy Nathan draws from the apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas to craft a provocative thriller starring Nicolas Cage as Joseph, a […]

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]]> CHARM CITY KINGS https://www.hammertonail.com/reviews/charm-city-kings/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:49:09 +0000 https://www.hammertonail.com/?p=33516

(Director Angel Manuel Soto’s Charm City Kings premieres on HBO Max Thursday, October 8. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) Those of us who live in Baltimore […]

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]]> TREEFORT FILM FEST ’14: WRAP-UP https://www.hammertonail.com/shorts-contest/treefort-film-fest-14-wrap-up/ Thu, 27 Mar 2014 20:43:21 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=23054 Elsewhere in Idaho, Treefort Film Fest serves as a perfect counterpoint to the previous week’s Sun Valley Film Festival. Younger, edgier, and at a much lower altitude, Treefort’s film component is a brand new addition to a much larger festival […]

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]]> A CALL TO RECOGNIZE THE BEST PERFORMANCES IN NONFICTION FILM https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/a-call-to-recognize-the-best-performances-in-nonfiction-film-by-robert-greene/ https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/a-call-to-recognize-the-best-performances-in-nonfiction-film-by-robert-greene/#comments Mon, 03 Jun 2013 14:22:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20905

The time has come to recognize an aspect of nonfiction cinema that has been overlooked for too long. The nature of documentary, of course, is that the image is based in reality. But it has come to be axiomatic that […]

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]]> https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/a-call-to-recognize-the-best-performances-in-nonfiction-film-by-robert-greene/feed/ 3 HOT DOCS 2013: Is This A New Golden Age? https://www.hammertonail.com/editorial/hot-docs-2013-is-this-a-new-golden-age/ Thu, 09 May 2013 16:52:38 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=20797 Maybe there’s a debate going on about whether we are, in fact, in the midst of a “documentary renaissance,” but the answer seemed self-evident at the 20th annual Hot Docs, that sprawling all-nonfiction festival that serves as a deliberately inclusive […]

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