The Tribeca Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary in New York City this spring! Taking place June 3-14, the festival will showcase 118 feature films, including 103 world premieres, alongside 86 shorts. Opening the festival on Wednesday, June 3 is the […]

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Few actor-director partnerships in contemporary cinema have proven as fruitful, or as essential as the collaboration between Toni Servillo and Paolo Sorrentino. Since their first meeting on the set of One Man Up  in 2001, the Naples-born actor and filmmaker have […]

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The New York Film Festival, presented by Film at Lincoln Center, has announced the lineup for its Spotlight section taking place at its 63rd edition. This section will showcase a selection of 12 significant and anticipated features, including three world […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we 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 hustles into […]

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A hidden gem of Iranian cinema has been unearthed and restored in 4K. Bahram Beyzaie’s mythical 1974 sophomore film The Stranger and the Fog was banned in Iran for decades following the Revolution there, but it’s finally being brought back […]

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Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger was written and directed by David Hinton and executive produced by Thelma Schoonmaker. The film is essentially 2 hrs + of Martin Scorsese expressing his deep love and admiration for the […]

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Summer is approaching. We at Hammer To Nail have dug deep beyond the buzzworthy studio titles to present an in-depth look at what should be on your radar this season. From festival hits, to microbudget marvels, to horror that gets […]

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The Berlin International Film Festival has unveiled a very exciting lineup for its 2024 edition in the International Competition and Encounters sections. Many of these films come with star power, such as A24’s A Different Man with Sebastian Stan, Alonso […]

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The major box-office successes of the year notwithstanding (we see you, “Barbenheimer”), 2023 saw many outstanding independent films come out to rival (or surpass) the quality of big-studio releases. Fortunately, in this 21st-century of ours, there are many theatrical distributors […]

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(Here at Hammer to Nail, we 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 wanders the […]

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