Following her Oscar-nominated documentary Fire of Love, Sara Dosa returned to the Sundance Film Festival this year for her newest documentary, which captures the toll global warming is taking on Arctic regions. Time and Water documents the life of Icelandic […]

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The 2026 Sundance Film Festival kicks off Thursday, January 22 and runs through Sunday, February 1 for, sadly the last time, in and around Park City, Utah. Last year’s passing of Sundance progenitor Robert Redford kind of added a real […]

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Over the past few years, a series of exposés and media (see Killers of the Flower Moon) have shed light on various injustices inflicted on Indigenous populations throughout history. But nothing will truly prepare you for the earth-shattering truths uncovered […]

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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 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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After a year of new groundbreaking documentaries, the Cinema Eye Honors has announced the full slate of nominations for its 16th Annual Awards Ceremony. Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love and Alex Pritz’s The Territory, both National Geographic films, lead with […]

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Co-produced by Darren Aronofsky, Alex Pritz’s directorial debut The Territory takes us deep into the Brazilian Amazon where we are immersed in the lives of the Indigenous Uru-eu-wau-wau people. Shot by Pritz and members of the Uru-eu-wau-wau, this documentary captures […]

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One of the biggest titles to premiere at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, director Sara Dosa’s documentary Fire of Love uses vintage footage from over thirty years to chronicle the love story of the late French scientists Katia & Maurice […]

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Still, whatever reservations I may have about the movie's narrative trajectory in its final third, I remain deeply moved by the exquisite splendor of the footage, so much of which looks as if it was shot yesterday...

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There are no simple solutions, however, and one of the truly fascinating aspects of this unsettling movie is how truths that we take to be self-evident soon become anything but..

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