The first major awards ceremony of the season kicked off tonight in Manhattan. The Gotham Awards marks the unofficial beginning of Oscar season, recognizing some of the best in independent and arthouse cinema from this year. The 33rd annual ceremony […]

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This seems to be the year for Lily Gladstone to shine. She delivered one of the best performances of this year’s Sundance in Fancy Dance, and has already gotten tremendous praise for her role in Martin Scorcese’s Killers of the […]

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Director Morrisa Maltz (Ingrid) just premiered her latest film, The Unknown Country, at SXSW 2022 (where I reviewed it), and I had a chance to virtually chat with her during the festival. In the movie, which utilizes a mix of […]

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(The 2022 SXSW Film Festival runs March 11-20 in glorious Austin, Texas. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of The Unknown Country. Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The two films by director Morrisa Maltz that I have so far […]

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With several boots on the ground this year, Hammer to Nail had each of our “attending” writers create a top 5 with everyone excited about so many selections for the first in person South by Southwest (SXSW) since 2019. After […]

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I met with director Morrisa Maltz on Friday, June 8, 2018, in Baltimore, to discuss her lovely documentary Ingrid, which I reviewed out of the 2018 Slamdance Film Festival. The movie tells the story of septuagenarian Ingrid Gipson, a once […]

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A lyrical, poetic ode to its subject, 74-year-old artist Ingrid Gipson, Ingrid transcends mere portraiture and involves the viewer in an act of cinematic intimacy that is as metaphysically profound as it is visually beautiful.

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