What did Louis Armstrong, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and other jazz musicians have to do with the CIA? Director Johan Gimonprez gives a mindblowing, yet jazzy account of the hidden connection between these famous figures and the agency’s […]

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(The 2024 Sundance Film Festival runs January 18-28. Check out Chris Reed’s movie review of Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat. Seen it? Join the conversation with HtN on our Letterboxd Page.) The late (not so great) Henry Kissinger was, very much to a […]

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Wim Wenders, hailing from Germany, is one of the greatest filmmakers of all time. He has been making films for over 50 years and wrote and directed his first feature in 1971 called Summer in the City. In 1976, Wenders […]

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(Friday, August 27, Metrograph began presenting Personal Problems: Split-Screen Version, a new restoration deconstructing Bill Gunn’s groundbreaking 1980 film. You can watch it here now. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via […]

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Editors Note: Summer of Soul is now playing in theaters and on Hulu. Below is our review from Sundance 2021. (The 2021 Sundance Film Festival runs January 28- February 3, all virtually as well as with drive-ins sprinkled around the […]

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