With the passing of Agnès Varda and Jean-Luc Godard within the last half-decade and last year, respectively, renewed attention has justifiably returned to the beginnings of the so-called French “Nouvelle Vague” (or “New Wave” in English; “Bossa nova” in Portuguese; […]

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(Orson Welles’ Too Much Johnson is now available online with voice-over commentary and musical accompaniment via the George Eastman Museum. Like what you see here on Hammer to Nail? Why not give just $1.00 per month via Patreon to help keep us going?) […]

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The 2019 New York Film Festival began with a bang — the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s feverishly anticipated The Irishman. And The Irishman itself ended with a whimper, or something close to it: This long (three and a half […]

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As we learn – if we didn't already know – watching They'll Love Me When I'm Dead, Welles was a deeply problematic human being, but there's no doubt that he was an incomparable filmmaker.

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Kino Lorber put some money into restoring both movies, which now look about as good as they ever will...

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While it would be nice to have more bonus content for a classic like The General, this is still a worthwhile purchase for fans...

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Shadows in the night, chiaroscuro pools of mystery, preying on the innocent. Footsteps resonate, then disappear, made even more frightening by what we imagine caused their sudden muffling. Someone – or something – is stalking our waking nightmares

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This week, our “The Curbside Criterion” continues where HtN staff can trot out thoughts on the finest films ever made. Today Christopher Llewellyn Reed takes a stab at the new Blu-Ray release of Gilda the Charles Vidor classic that cemented Rita Hayworth as more than just a pretty face who was light on her feet

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